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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4. Select the appropriate datastore name where VM needs to be hosted.
5. Select the disk format. Thin provisioning is supported and recommended.
6. Select the network name. The VM needs to be mapped to the Hypervisor
Management Network. All the networks (e.g. OOB, Hypervisor Management,
vMotion, iSCSI and VM workloads) are expected to be accessible from the appliance.
7. Table 5 lists the necessary key access credentials to use.
Table 5. Key Access Credentials
VM Access Credentials Username/Password
Active System Manager server installation login delladmin/delladmin
Active System Manager server root root/Dell@123
Active System Manager application admin/admin
Changing Key Access Credentials
Passwords should be changed at the time of deployment. You should change the passwords
before creating or changing any of the software repositories.
1. Stop Active System Manager services:
a. Log in as user delladmin.
b. Execute following commands:
cd $HOME/asm-galeforce/gf/sbin