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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template should be a subset of VLANs defined on the VLAN component in ASM
template.
25. Does ASM configure NTP on the ESXi host?
NTP is not configured on the ESXi host; user needs to manually configure the NTP
setting on the ESXi host.
26. Interface mapping (DIS links) between the end devices is not correct as they don’t
represent the actual location of the end devices.
Links discovered during discovery don’t represent the actual connection between
the end devices, those are dummy connections. The DIS links are discovered so that
we could represent connection / links in the ASM template. This allows scheduling
of the ASM templates with links in ASM template.
27. If vCenter and Active System Nodes is left unchecked in discovery configuration
then discovery initiated from orchestration does not discover vCenter or Active
System Elements
This is as designed, for discovery to work the Active System elements and applicable
vCenter entries should be checked in the discovery setup. For example for AS1000
system, the Discovery setup should be setup as shown in figure below
28. What is Gold/Base VM?
Virtual Machine with proper OS installed on it, exists on DataCenter and can be used
to create one or more VM with same OS flavor.
29. Can not schedule more VMs than the value of inventory level capacity parameter
'CPU/RAM', which represents the 'Logical Processor' count and 'RAM'.
For example:
• Physical Session: A cluster with 4 Blades, 16 logical processors and 32 GB
RAM each. Total CPU = 64, RAM = 128
• Logical Template: VM 'Guest Capacity' inventory parameter has CPU = 4,
RAM = 8192, Object Count = 4