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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Tables
Table 1. Solution Component ....................................................................................... 9
Table 2. Active System 1000-Supported Configurations ...................................................... 10
Table 3. Deployment Options ..................................................................................... 11
Table 4. Deployment Prerequisites .............................................................................. 11
Table 5. Key Access Credentials .................................................................................. 14
Table 6. Values required for configuring network ............................................................. 46
Table 7. Default ESXi Network Mapping ......................................................................... 47
Table 8. Orchestration Input Parameters ....................................................................... 50
Table 9. Force10 IOA Switch operations ........................................................................ 65
Table 10. Force10 ToR Switch operations ........................................................................ 66
Table 11. Brocade Switch operations ............................................................................. 67
Table 12. VMware Cluster Operations............................................................................. 68
Table 13. VMware Hosts operations ............................................................................... 69
Table 14. VMware Virtual Machines operations ................................................................. 70
Table 15. VMware Datastore operations .......................................................................... 71
Table 16. Build of Material—Resource Adapters ................................................................ 83
Table 17. Build of Material—Templates ........................................................................... 83
Table 18. Firmware and Software versions ...................................................................... 84