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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Technical Documentation
The Dell Active System Manager documentation enables you to better understand your
current Active Infrastructure, its deployment, and management software.
For this release, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the following
documentation:
• Active System 1000 Spec Sheet
• Active System 1000 VMware ESX 5.x Reference Architecture
• Active System Manager 7.1 User Guide
• Active System Manager 7.1 Web Interface User Guide
To access the latest Active System Manager documentation for Version 7.1:
1. Navigate to www.dell.com/support/manuals, click Choose from a list of all Dell
products and click Continue.
2. Click Software and Security → Enterprise System Management → Active System
Manager → Dell Active System Manager Version 7.1.
Overview
This section provides a high-level product overview of VMware vSphere, Dell PowerEdge
blade servers, Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator, Dell Force10 S4810 switch, Dell Force10
S55 switch, Brocade 6510 Fibre Channel Switches and Dell Compellent Storage. Readers can
skip the sections of products with which they are familiar.
Table 1. Solution Component
Component Details
Hypervisor Server
PowerEdge M1000e chassis with
PowerEdge M620 Blade Servers and
embedded VMware vSphere 5
LAN Switch
Two Force10 S4810 and 10GbE
Passthrough-k modules for the Chassis
SAN Switch
Two Brocade 6510 Fiber Switch and
Dell 8 | 4 I/O modules for the chassis
Storage
Two Compellent SC8000 controllers
with SAS enclosures
Management Infrastructure
Two PowerEdge R620 servers with
embedded VMware vSphere 5 hosting
management VMs. One Force10 S55 used
as a 1Gb management switch