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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Appendix B—Build of Materials
Table 10 displays a list of build of materials, grouped by Resource Adapters.
Table 16. Build of Material—Resource Adapters
Vendor Model Description
Dell Chassis Dell Chassis resource adapter using WSMAN
and RACADM CLI used for discovery
operations
Dell Servers Dell Servers resource adapter using WSMAN
and RACADM CLI used for provisioning the
servers
Dell IOA Management of IO Aggregator
Dell Compellent Management of Compellent storage
Dell Force10-S4810 Management of ToR switches
Template VMwareLib VMware Host Provisioning on Blades
VMware Host VMware vCenter Management
VMware Virtual Machine VMware Virtual Machine Instance
Management
Table 11 displays a list of build of materials, grouped by templates.
Table 17. Build of Material—Templates
ID Description Workflows
1—Physical Cluster - VMware ESXi 5.1
Hypervisor deployment ISO
boot
Configure ESXi Servers using ISO Boot,
Cleanup-Orchestration, and VMFS
Datastore Provision.
2-Physical Standalone - VMware ESXi 5.1
Hypervisor deployment ISO
boot
Configure ESXi servers using ISO Boot,
Cleanup-Orchestration, and VMFS
Datastore Provision.
3—Logical Logical template with one VM
connected to a VLAN
Built-in orchestration.
4—Logical Logical template with two VMs
connected to a VLAN
Built-in orchestration.