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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3. After completing the Active System 1000 components discovery, update the
following information manually in the Active System Manager for all blade servers.
These parameters will be used for configuring the ESXi Server.
This information can be updated by using the multi-editor feature or by opening
individual server instances. You can launch the multi-editor by selecting multiple
server instances and then clicking Open with Multi-Editor.
The following parameters must be updated for each Dell server in the ASM
inventory. These are required for end-to-end ESX host provisioning.
• ESXServerHostname—Hostname to be assigned to the ESXi server.
• ESXServerPassword—Server root password to be assigned during unattended
installation.
• ESXiSCSIChapUsername — iSCSI CHAP user name used to access volume of
Compellent Storage Array.
• ESXiSCSIChapSecret—iSCSI CHAP secret corresponding to iSCSI CHAP user
name.
The following parameters must be updated for each Dell Compellent instance in the
ASM inventory. These are required for end-to-end host provisioning.
• FaultDomainAlias1– Alias name for WWPN of Compellent which exists on
Brocade switch 6510.
• FaultDomainAlias2– Alias name for WWPN of Compellent which exists on
Brocade switch 6510.