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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Security Management—Users and Groups ............................................................ 26 Figure 1.
Adding System Details ................................................................................... 28 Figure 2.
Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning ...................................................... 48 Figure 7.
Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning ...................................................... 49 Figure 8.
Global Orchestration parameters ..................................................................... 50 Figure 9.
Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning ........................................ 53 Figure 10.
On-demand Orchestrations ............................................................................. 55 Figure 11.
VMFS Datastore Provision ............................................................................... 56 Figure 12.
Two VMs Connected to a VLAN ........................................................................ 59 Figure 13.
Single VM Connected to a VLAN ....................................................................... 60 Figure 14.
Blade Servers view ....................................................................................... 64 Figure 16.
Force10 IOA Switch view ................................................................................ 65 Figure 17.
Force10 ToR Switch view ............................................................................... 66 Figure 18.
Brocade Switch view ..................................................................................... 67 Figure 19.
VMware Clusters view ................................................................................... 68 Figure 20.
VMware Host view ........................................................................................ 69 Figure 21.
VMware Virtual Machines view ......................................................................... 70 Figure 22.
VMware Datastores view ................................................................................ 71 Figure 23.
Resource Allocation by Sessions Report .............................................................. 72 Figure 24.
Resource Allocation by Hosts Report ................................................................. 73 Figure 25.
Resource Allocation by Groups Report ............................................................... 74 Figure 26.
Top Ten Resource Allocation Report.................................................................. 75 Figure 27.
Top Ten Resource Utilization Report ................................................................. 76 Figure 28.
VM Utilization by Session Report ...................................................................... 77 Figure 29.
Host Utilization (Consolidated) Report ............................................................... 78 Figure 30.
Cluster Utilization (Consolidated) Report ........................................................... 78 Figure 31.
Storage Utilization (Consolidated) Report ........................................................... 79 Figure 32.
CPU & Memory Utilization Showback Report ........................................................ 80 Figure 33.
Reset Zoom ................................................................................................ 81 Figure 34.
VLAN ID .................................................................................................... 99 Figure 35.
Add a PUBLIC_LAN Configuration ..................................................................... 100 Figure 36.
Edit vNIC Configuration ................................................................................ 100 Figure 37.
Attach Server Profile ................................................................................... 101 Figure 38.