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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Workload Provisioning Using Logical Templates
This section describes the following workload provisioning options using the Logical
templates:
• Pre-requisite to provision a Virtual Machine
• Two VMs with a VLAN
• Single Virtual Machine with a VLAN
• Updating a Baseline VM Image on Logical Templates
NOTE: Refer to the VMware RA readme.txt file for customizing the Virtual Machines
authored in the templates
Pre-requisite to provision a Virtual Machine
There must be a Gold/Base VM in the Datacenter, this Gold/Base VM will be used as gold
image file to clone VM.
The Gold VM and the template must contain one NIC with DHCP configuration accessible
from the domain. This is required so that after the guest Customization, the VM receives a
proper IPAddress which is reachable from domain.
Two VMs with a VLAN
The Dual VM Sample template (Figure 14) can be used to create VM workloads by scheduling
a logical template over existing physical resources sessions, to consume the compute and
storage resources of specific physical components.
Two VMs Connected to a VLAN Figure 13.
When scheduled, this template performs the following sequence of operations:
• Clones and powers on two VMware VMs based on the Gold VM Image associated in
the template.
• Creates port-groups corresponding to VLAN component on vSwitch, as can also be
seen in the annotation in the template screenshot below.