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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8. Deselect Status.
9. Click OK.
10. Click Close
When this template is scheduled, this template performs the following sequence of
operations:
1. Reserves single or multiple VLANs for VM traffic using a VLAN component. In case
the VLAN reserved in the session are not already configured on the ToR switches
then VLANs are created and tagged to appropriate port-channels.
2. IOA Configuration based on Networks defined in Server Profile template and VLAN
defined in VLAN component
VLAN’s associated with networks in the Server Profile template and VLAN defined in
the VLAN component in the physical template are created on the IOA server facing
interfaces as Tagged VLANs.
3. NIC Partitioning as defined in Server Profile template
4. Set NIC Attributes as defined in Server Profile template
5. Create the ISO files for each server dynamically based on the Server IP Address,
Hostname, Name server values provided in the database.
6. Mount the ISO using iDRAC Virtual Media on all the Servers and initiate the
installation process.
7. Configure the vSwitch configuration
a. Create the vSwitch and port-groups based on Active System deployment
specification
b. Tag the port-groups with appropriate VLANs as specified in the template
8. Create two volumes on the Compellent Array
a. New volumes are created per physical session based on the size specified in
the Orchestration input global parameters.
b. The authentication of the new volume is configured based on the WWPN of
the server mezzanine FC ports.
9. Create vCenter Cluster / Datacenter (if not already exists) on the specified vCenter.
The cluster is created with default settings.(DRS - On, HA - On, EVC - Disabled).
NOTE: The cluster name passed as an argument must not be the Management
cluster.
10. Add hosts to the vCenter cluster.
11. The datastore created in the orchestration is used for provisioning the VM in the
logical workload templates. Provides access to Gold volume and using Gold volume,
creates base VMs.
12. Registers base VMs to the vCenter for logical template provisioning.