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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18. Can I remove a server from a session, to either free up the unused servers or to
removing servers that have gone bad.
No. This is not a supported use case.
19. While creating/editing the server profile template or attaching server profile to a
server, can I select firmware files from different repositories?
No, selected firmware files must belong to a single repository. For example, if you
choose iDRAC and BIOS firmware for update; both should be from the same
repository.
20. How to remove a server from a session, to free up the unused servers or removing
servers which are gone bad.
Server can be removed from the session but no cleanup operations are currently
performed while removing a specific server from the session. User needs to cancel
the session for removing servers from a session.
21. Can I managed multiple Active System, same type (e.g. 2X AS1000) or different
type (e.g. AS1000 and AS200), using a single ASM appliance
Yes a single ASM appliance can be used to manage multiple ASM appliance for the
same type or different type
22. ASM Template validation fails and template cannot be scheduled if Active System
elements are discovered separately
This is as designed, the DIS links are discovered only when the complete Active
System discovery is performed. DIS links are required for ASM template validation
23. What are the best practices for providing Asset Tag during discovery of an Active
System?
User need to ensure that the Asset Tag provided in discovery setup does not match
with the Manufacture or Model name pattern. For example, if Manufacture is
EqualLogic and Model is StorageArray, the assetTag used during discovery should not
have a pattern which matches either of “EqualLogic” or “StorageArray”.
NOTE: In case user provides a name with pattern that matches Manufacture or
Model than Virtual Object imported in ASM does not have the “Hypevisor” flag
checked in inventory. User will have to manually enable the Hypervisor flag in this
case. For enabling the Hypervisor flag on a resource instance in inventory, refer the
ASM User Guide.
24. How the Workload VLAN’s which is defined in the VLAN component in ASM Template
and Server Profile is configured by ASM?
ASM configures only Workload VLANs which are defined in ASM Template for Top of
Rack switches configuration. However IOA is configured with VLAN’s which are
defined in VLAN component as well as Workload VLAN’s defined in Server profile
template. Thus for ensuring IOA and ToR switches are configured with same set of
workload VLAN’s, make sure that workload VLAN’s defined in Server profile