Quick Start Manual

Contents
1 Overview......................................................................................................................5
About this Document............................................................................................................................5
What is New in this Release.................................................................................................................. 5
Accessing Online Help.......................................................................................................................... 5
Other Documents You May Need........................................................................................................ 6
Licensing................................................................................................................................................6
Virtual Appliance Requirements............................................................................................................6
Software Requirements.........................................................................................................................6
Supported Resources............................................................................................................................ 7
Supported Dell PowerEdge Chassis ...............................................................................................7
Supported PowerEdge Servers and Firmware Matrix.....................................................................7
Supported Cisco UCS Servers and Firmware Matrix...................................................................... 7
Supported Storage and Firmware Matrix........................................................................................8
Supported Networks and Firmware Matrix.....................................................................................8
Supported Adapters and Firmware Matrix......................................................................................9
2 Installation and Quick Start..................................................................................11
Information Prerequisites.................................................................................................................... 11
Installing Active System Manger..........................................................................................................11
Deployment Prerequisites .............................................................................................................11
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Prerequisites............................................... 13
Deploying Active System Manager from VMware vSphere Client...............................................14
Deploying Active System Manager using SCVMM........................................................................15
Deploying Active System Manager on Hyper-V host...................................................................16
3 Configuring the Active System Manager Virtual Appliance.........................19
Changing Dell Administrator Password..............................................................................................19
Configuring Static IP Address in the Virtual Appliance...................................................................... 19
Configuring ASM Virtual Appliance as PXE Boot Responder............................................................ 20
Configure DHCP on Windows 2012 DHCP Server......................................................................20
Configure DHCP on Windows 2008 DHCP Server......................................................................21
Configuring DHCP for Linux.........................................................................................................23
Deploying WinPE on the Virtual Appliance........................................................................................26
Create a repository with Windows installation media on ASM Appliance.................................. 26
Creating WinPE Image and Updating Install Media for Windows 2012 and Windows 2012
R2................................................................................................................................................... 27
Copying WinPE and Install Media to ASM Repository and Updating Permissions..................... 28
Updating default-unattended.xml.erb and wim_boot.erb files for Windows 2012 R2..............28