Solution Guide
Table Of Contents
- Introduction to the Active System 1000 Solution
- Audience
- Support
- Technical Documentation
- Overview
- Active System 1000-Supported Configurations
- Active System Manager Deployment
- Deployment Options
- Deployment Prerequisites
- Deploying OVF
- Changing Key Access Credentials
- Assigning IP Address to the Active System Manager
- Accessing the Active System Manager Web Client for the First Time
- Adding Additional Licenses
- Configuring Active System Manager Services
- Installing the Active System Manager Client
- Active System Manager Setup
- User and Group Management
- Discovering Active System 1000 Components
- Software Repositories in Active System Manager Appliance
- Updating Repository Elements for ISO Bootable Images
- Updating Repository Elements for IOA Switch configuration and Images
- Updating Repository Elements for Brocade Firmware Repository
- Updating Repository Elements for Brocade Switch Configuration
- Updating Repository Elements for ToR Switch Configurations and Images
- Updating Repository Elements for VMware Baseline Images
- Configuring Networks
- Physical Templates and Orchestration
- Workload Provisioning Using Logical Templates
- Operation Center View—Administrative Operations
- Dashboard Reports
- Resource Allocation by Sessions Report
- Resource Allocation by Hosts Report
- Resource Allocation by Groups Report
- Top Ten Resource Allocation Report
- Top Ten Resource Utilization Report
- VM Utilization by Session Report
- Host Utilization (Consolidated) Report
- Cluster Utilization (Consolidated) Report
- Storage Utilization (Consolidated) Report
- CPU and Memory Utilization Showback Report
- Appendix A—Deployment Activities
- Appendix B—Build of Materials
- Appendix C—Firmware and Software Base Lineup
- Appendix E—Adding New ESXi ISO Images
- Appendix G— Planning Worksheet
- Appendix I—FAQs
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Active System Manager Deployment
The following topics describe how to deploy the Active System Manager:
• Deploying OVF
• Assigning IP Address to the Active System Manager Appliance
• Installing Active System Manager License
• Configuring Active System Manager Services
Deployment Options
The Active System Manager solution for Active System 1000 is packaged as a virtual
appliance and is made available for VMware vCenter 5.1 and the Windows Server 2012
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM):
• Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for VMware—The disk format is VMware virtual
machine disk (VMDK).
• Hyper-V virtualization environment—The disk format is virtual hard disk (VHD) for
Hyper-V.
Table 3. Deployment Options
Virtual Appliance Filenames Platform
Dell-ActiveSystemManager-7.1.xyztp_VMware.zip VMware vCenter 5.1
Dell-ActiveSystemManager-7.1.0.xyztp_Microsoft.zip Microsoft Server 2012 with
Hyper-v
Deployment Prerequisites
Before using the Active System Manager solution for end-to-end provisioning of Active
System 1000 components, ensure that the prerequisites listed in Table 4 are in place.
Table 4. Deployment Prerequisites
Specification Prerequisite
Active System 1000units connected per
the Active System 1000 Reference
Architecture and Design Guidelines
Management server is configured per
the Active System 1000 Reference
Architecture and Design Guidelines
Firmware and BIOS Requirements
•
All the equipment needs to be
configured with firmware versions as