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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Configuring Networks ................................................................................................... 44
Accessing the Network Configuration Setup .................................................................. 44
Configuring the Networks ........................................................................................ 44
Configuring Default Server Templates ......................................................................... 46
Physical Templates and Orchestration .............................................................................. 49
Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning .................................................................. 49
Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning ..................................................... 53
Associated Orchestrations with Cluster and Standalone Host Templates .................................. 55
Additional Storage for Cluster or Host ............................................................................ 55
Updating Physical Templates ....................................................................................... 57
Workload Provisioning Using Logical Templates ................................................................... 59
Pre-requisite to provision a Virtual Machine ..................................................................... 59
Two VMs with a VLAN ................................................................................................ 59
Single Virtual Machine with a VLAN ............................................................................... 60
Updating a Baseline VM Image on Logical Templates .......................................................... 60
Customizing the Guest OS (Optional) ............................................................................. 62
Operation Center View—Administrative Operations ............................................................... 64
Managing Dell Blade Server ......................................................................................... 64
Managing Dell Force10 IOA Switch ................................................................................. 65
Managing Dell Force10 ToR Switch ................................................................................ 65
Managing Brocade Switch ........................................................................................... 66
Managing VMware vCenter Objects ................................................................................ 67
VMware Clusters ................................................................................................... 67
VMware Hosts ....................................................................................................... 68
VMware Virtual Machines ......................................................................................... 70
VMware Datastores ................................................................................................ 71
Dashboard Reports ...................................................................................................... 72
Resource Allocation by Sessions Report .......................................................................... 72
Resource Allocation by Hosts Report .............................................................................. 73
Resource Allocation by Groups Report ............................................................................ 73
Top Ten Resource Allocation Report .............................................................................. 74
Top Ten Resource Utilization Report.............................................................................. 75
VM Utilization by Session Report ................................................................................... 76
Host Utilization (Consolidated) Report ........................................................................... 77
Cluster Utilization (Consolidated) Report ........................................................................ 78