Quick Start Manual

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Overview
Active System Manager (ASM) is Dell’s unified management product that provides a comprehensive
infrastructure and workload automation solution for IT administrators and teams. ASM simplifies and
automates the management of heterogeneous environments, enabling IT to respond more rapidly to
dynamic business needs.
IT organizations today are often burdened by complex data centers that contain a mix of technologies
from different vendors and cumbersome operational tasks for delivering services while managing the
underlying infrastructure. These tasks are typically performed through multiple management consoles for
different physical and virtual resources, which can dramatically slow down service deployment.
The new Active System Manager 7.5 features an enhanced user interface that provides an intuitive, end-
to-end infrastructure and workload automation experience through a unified console. This speeds up
workload delivery and streamlines infrastructure management, enabling IT organizations to accelerate
service delivery and time to value for customers.
About this Document
This document version is updated for Active System Manager, version 7.5.2.
What is New in this Release
This release of Active System Manager supports:
• Support for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), including SCVMM discovery,
Hyper-V deployment, and cluster creation
• Ability to provision multiple EqualLogic Storage components in a template for Hyper-V only
• IP and IQN authentication on EqualLogic Storage
• Static IP addressing for public and private networks Hyper-V only
Accessing Online Help
Active System Manger (ASM) online help system provides context-sensitive help available from every page
in the ASM user interface.
After you log in to ASM user interface, you can access the online help in any of the following ways:
• To open context-sensitive online help for the active page, click ?, and then click Help.
• To open context-sensitive online help for a dialog box, click ? in the dialog box.
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