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 I—FAQs
1. The orchestrations assume that Port Channel 2 is configured on the switches. If not,
you get a failure indicated by red links on the session.
The list of port-channels are configurable, based on the environment this list could
be controlled by updating the “portChannelList” in the “ssi.properties” file under
“$HOME/asm-galeforce/gf/common/integrations/Dell/Force10-S4810”
2. Can I specify the datastore on which the VM should be created?
User can specify the datastore on which VM to be created by providing the value of
“TargetDatastore” provisioning parameter of the VM in the template as shown in the
screenshot below. In case there is not value provided for “TargetDatastore” , RA
will choose the best available datastore for VM creation.
3. Is there a way to revert a template or import the original template?
The original templates are available on the appliance under folder
$HOME/DefaultTemplates
Also as best practice:
• User should make a copy of the template and make the required
modification in the cloned template.
• Keep the copy of the original templates by exporting them locally on a
client machine and importing it back as needed.
4. What is the difference between synchronize and discovery
During discovery process following information is discovered and added to Active
System Manager
• Inventory information