Solution Guide

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800)

Table 1 lists the Active System Manager solution for the Active System 800-supported components.

Table 1. Active System 800-Supported Components

Component

Details

VMware vSphere 5.1 Hypervisor

Up to 2x Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis with up to

32x Dell PowerEdge M620 Blade Servers and

embedded VMware vSphere 5.1

Converged Fabric Switch

 2xDell Force10 S4810

 2x Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator in each

Dell

 PowerEdge M1000e chassis

Storage

 Up to 8x Dell EqualLogic PS6110 series

arrays

Management Infrastructure

 2x Dell PowerEdge R620 servers with

embedded VMware vSphere 5.1 hosting

management VMs.

 1x Dell Force10 S55 used as a 1Gb out-of-

band management switch

Management components hosted in the

management infrastructure

 Dell Active System Manager

 VMware vCenter Server

 Dell Management Plug-in for VMware

vCenter

 Dell OpenManage Essentials

 Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager

(VSM) for VMware

 Dell EqualLogic SAN Headquarters (HQ)

 VMware vCloud Connector

 Dell Repository Manager