Solution Guide

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800)
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F.2 VLAN for IOA Configuration
Traffic Type
VLAN
Management
vMotion
VM Workload(s)
iSCSI Management / Traffic
VMware Workloads
1. Administrator needs to create a volume on EqualLogic storage array manually
2. This volume needs to contain the base line VMs that will be used for creating the VM
workloads
Note:
The base line VMs needs to have VMware Tools installed.
G Appendix G—PXE Setup Requirements
Considerations before creating the DHCP Server:
 The PXE Network must be separate from the Management Network.
 Active System Manager must have a network interface with same subnet as the TFTP Server.
Appliance uses ARP entries for identifying the IP Address assigned to the ESXi Servers by the
DHCP Server.
 The Active System Manager VM appliance has pre-defined templates for installing ESXi 5.1 on
the Dell blade servers using PXE boot. For enabling the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
boot, the following additional services are configured on the appliance:
G.1 TFTP Server
TFTP services are enabled and deployed at /var/lib/tftpboot on the appliance. The ESXi Dell
customized image is embedded within the appliance.
G.2 HTTP Server
HTTP services are enabled on the appliance.
G.3 DHCP Server
DHCP services are disabled on the appliance to avoid any issue with an existing DHCP server that may
already be running on the same customer network. For the PXE setup requirement, the DHCP services
should be running on the same network as the PXE. The DHCP server is configured to use Eth1 on the
appliance