Active System Manager Release 8.
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Contents 1 Overview......................................................................................................................... 4 2 What’s New in this Release.............................................................................................5 3 Active System Manager Appliance Requirements........................................................... 6 Hypervisor and Management Requirements....................................................................................................
1 Overview Active System Manager (ASM) is Dell’s unified management product that provides a comprehensive infrastructure and workload automation solution for IT administrators and teams. ASM simplifies and automates the management of heterogeneous environments, enabling IT to respond more rapidly to dynamic business needs.
2 What’s New in this Release Active System Manager 8.3 is focused on expanding capabilities around workload deployment, adding new capabilities around managing existing environments, and improving the granularity of information shown around the current state of environments under management. The highlights of compatibility matrix of Active System Manager release 8.
3 Active System Manager Appliance Requirements Active System Manager runs as a virtual appliance on a Dell server configured with the following hardware and software: Table 1. Active System Manager Appliance Requirements Resources Minimum Requirement vCPUs 4 vCPUs Memory 16 GB Disk Space 115 GB Hypervisor and Management Requirements Table 2. Hypervisor and Management Requirements Software Component Supported Version VMware vSphere • 5.1 • 5.5 • 6.
Operating System Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Microsoft Windows 7 Version 9 or Later Version 26 or Later Version 32 or Later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 and 7.0 Not Supported Version 26 or Later Version 32 or Later Cent OS 6.5 and 7.
4 Supported Resources This section provides information about the resources supported by Active System Manager (ASM). The information has been segmented based on the resource types. Supported Physical Server Operating System Table 4. Supported Physical Server Operating System Software Component Supported Version Microsoft Windows • 2008 R2 • 2012 • 2012 R2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5–6.7, 7.0–7.2 CentOS 6.5–6.7, 7.0–7.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 Supported Hypervisor Table 5.
Supported Virtual Machine Operating System Table 7. Supported Virtual Machine Operating System Software Component Supported Version Microsoft Windows • 2008* • 2008 R2 • 2012 • 2012 R2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 -6.7, 7.0 -7.2 CentOS 6.5 -6.7, 7.0 -7.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 * It is supported only as a virtual machine and it must be created through cloning. Supported OS Installation and Boot Locations Table 8.
Resource BIOS Version iDRAC Version Lifecycle Controller Version From To From To From To Dell PowerEdge M820 2.3.3 2.3.3 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 Dell PowerEdge R420 2.4.2 2.4.2 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 2.32.31.30 Dell PowerEdge R520 2.4.2 2.4.2 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 2.32.31.30 Dell PowerEdge R620 2.5.4 2.5.4 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 Dell PowerEdge R720 2.5.4 2.5.4 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 2.30.30.30 2.32.31.
Supported Cisco UCS Servers and Firmware Matrix Table 12. Supported Cisco UCS Servers and Firmware Matrix Resource Firmware Supported Cisco UCS B Series M1/M2/M3 From To N/A N/A NOTE: ASM supports deployment of the operating system on the supported Cisco UCS servers. If you want to deploy operating system on Cisco UCS servers, you must apply required hardware configuration by using a service profile in UCS Manager.
Resources Firmware Supported From NetApp FAS 62xx (NFS Only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) To ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) NOTE: NetApp is supported only for ESXi cluster deployment. Supported Network Switches The following table provides information about the supported network switches: Table 15.
*On systems with Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extenders, certain servers may experience reduced network connectivity. This issue occurs because the servers may have additional ports than what is supported by the B22 Fabric Extender. ** Access gateway mode only. Supported Adapters and Firmware Matrix The following table provides information about the supported adapters: Table 16.
Table 17. Supported Storage Controllers on the 12 th Generation of PowerEdge Servers Resource From To PERC H310 and H310 mini 20.13.1-0002 20.13.1-0002 PERC H710 and H710 mini 21.3.2-0005 21.3.2-0005 PERC H710P and H710P mini 21.3.2-0005 21.3.2-0005 PERC H810 21.3.2-0005 21.3.2-0005 Supported Storage Controllers on the 13th Generation of PowerEdge Servers The following table provides information about the storage controllers supported on the 13th generation of PowerEdge servers: Table 18.
Supported Connectivity Protocols The following table describes the supported OS installation methods and network cards: Table 21.
5 Other Documents You May Need See dell.com/asmdocs for additional supporting documents such as: • Active System Manager Release 8.3 User’s Guide • Active System Manager Release 8.3 Release Notes • Active System Manager Release 8.3 Installation Guide • Active System Manager Release 8.3 API Reference Guide • Active System Manager Release 8.2 SDK Reference Guide • Active System Manager Integration for VMware vRealize Orchestrator User’s Guide You can also see http://www.dell.
