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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VMware Host view Figure 21.
Table 13. VMware Hosts operations
Operation Description
Add DataStore to Host This method is used to add an existing datastore to a cluster
visible in Operations View.
Apply Host Profile This method is used for applying the specified profile to a
specified Host. While applying the host profile please make sure
both the Hosts physical configuration should be same. User
can not apply the profile having more than one physical NIC to a
host having single NIC.
Create Profile from Host This method is used for creating Host Profile from a specified Hos.
Enter Maintenance Mode This method is used to put the ESX host into maintenance mode.
VM running on the ESX hosts are suspended or migrated based on
the ESX host configuration and passed parameters to this method.
Exit Maintenance Mode This method is used to exit the ESX from maintenance mode and
power on/restore the VMs which are suspended during the 'Enter
Maintenance Mode' operation.
Display Resource
Utilization
This method is used to view the resource utilization of the host.
List Host Datastore This method is used to view datastores on the host.