Solution Guide

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800)
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7. Configure the vSwitch configuration
a. Create the vSwitch and port-groups based on Active System 800 deployment
specification
b. Tag the port-groups with appropriate VLANs as specified in the template
c. Create iSCSI Port-groups and install / configure the MEM VIBs
8. Create a volume of the EqualLogic Storage Array
a. The new volume is created per physical session based on the size specified in the
Orchestration input.
b. The authentication of the new volume is configured based on the Chap username and
secret key specified in the inventory database of the servers.
9. Add hosts to the vCenter at datacenter level.
10. The datastore created in the orchestration is used for provisioning the VM in the logical
workload templates. Provides access to Gold volume and using Gold volume, creates base VMs.
11. Installs EqualLogic MEM modules. The MEM package is transferred to the volume created in the
above step to enable the installation.
12. Registers base VMs to the vCenter for logical template provisioning.
4.3 Associated Orchestrations with Cluster and Standalone Host
Templates
Each physical template has three orchestrations associated with it:
Figure 72. Orchestrations