Solution Guide

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800)
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4 Physical Templates and Orchestration ......................................................................... 62
4.1 Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning ......................................................... 62
4.2 Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning ........................................... 64
4.3 Associated Orchestrations with Cluster and Standalone Host Templates ......................... 65
4.4 Additional Storage for Cluster or Host................................................................... 66
4.5 Updating Physical Templates ............................................................................. 67
5 Workload Provisioning Using Logical Templates .............................................................. 70
5.1 Two VMs with a VLAN ....................................................................................... 70
5.2 Single Virtual Machine with VLAN ........................................................................ 71
5.3 Updating a Baseline VM Image on Logical Templates ................................................. 71
6 Operation Center View—Administrative Operations ......................................................... 73
6.1 Managing Blades ............................................................................................. 73
6.2 Managing vCenter Objects ................................................................................. 73
6.2.1 Clusters and Hosts ....................................................................................... 74
6.2.2 VMware vSwitches ....................................................................................... 75
6.2.3 VMware Datastores....................................................................................... 75
6.3 Managing EqualLogic Storage ............................................................................. 76
6.4 Managing Volume ............................................................................................ 77
6.5 Setting Up Storage .......................................................................................... 78
7 Dashboard Reports ................................................................................................. 79
7.1 Resource Allocation by Sessions Report ................................................................. 79
7.2 Resource Allocation by Hosts Report .................................................................... 80
7.3 Resource Allocation by Groups Report .................................................................. 81
7.4 Top Ten Resource Allocation Report ..................................................................... 81
7.5 Top Ten Resource Utilization Report .................................................................... 82
7.6 VM Utilization by Session Report ......................................................................... 83
7.7 Host Utilization (Consolidated) Report .................................................................. 84
7.8 Cluster Utilization (Consolidated) Report............................................................... 85
7.9 Storage Utilization (Consolidated) Report .............................................................. 85
7.10 CPU and Memory Utilization Showback Report ........................................................ 86
A Appendix A—Deployment Activities ............................................................................. 87
A.1 Verifying Active System Manager Services .............................................................. 87
B Appendix B—Build of Materials .................................................................................. 88
C Appendix C—Firmware and Software Base Lineup ........................................................... 89
D Appendix D—Adding New ESXi PXE Images .................................................................... 91