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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Software Repositories in Active System Manager
Appliance
Configuring the following repositories is described in the Active System Manager User’s
Guide, Chapter 6 – Firmware Management:
• Updating Repository Elements for Dell Servers
Configuring the following repositories is described in this document:
• Updating Repository Elements for ISO Bootable Images
• Updating Repository Elements for IOA Switch Configuration and Images
• Updating Repository Elements for Brocade Firmware
• Updating Repository Elements for Brocade Switch Configuration
• Updating Repository Elements for ToR Switch Configurations and Images
• Updating Repository Elements for VMware Baseline Images
Updating Repository Elements for ISO Bootable Images
To update these repository elements, perform the following steps:
1. Open the Software Repositories view in the setup by clicking Setup -> Software
Repositories on the thick client
2. Right-click the view and select Repositories.
3. Click the Software Repository > Existing radio buttons.
4. Using the drop-down menu, select ISO Bootable Images and click Next.
5. Update the Host attribute value with the IP address of the Active System Manager
appliance. The UserName and Password are configured with default appliance
username and password. These needs to be updated in case the default
username/password is updated. BaseDirPath value contains base directory path
where ISO image image files are copied, by default its value
‘/home/delladmin/ISOBootImages’ and click Next.
6. Click Discover to initiate the discovery of the repository files. This step is required
only in case a new ISO image is added to the appliance.
This will list the discovered element in the repository.