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 E—Adding New ESXi ISO Images
This appendix describes the following topics related to adding new ESXi images:
• Download Image ISO
• Modifying the ESXi boot.cfg Configuration File
• Creating a Kickstart Configuration File
• Adding the new image to the software repositories
Preparing the VMware ESXi 5.x Installation Media
To prepare the VMware ESXi 5.x installation media, perform the following steps:
Download Image ISO
1. Login to www.dell.com
2. Open the support and driver page
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/ProductSelector/Select?rquery=fke
y-e-Drivers_PS
3. Select Server, Storage & Networking
4. Select PowerEdge
5. Select PowerEdge M620
6. Select VMware ESXi 5.1
7. The image will be listed under section “Drivers for OS Deployment”
8. On your Active System Manager appliance server, simply extract the contents of the
installation ISO into a new directory using the following commands (login as “root”
user”) :
# mkdir /tmp/dellISO