Owner's Manual

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 ASM 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.

This document contains information about virtual appliance and software requirements of ASM, and the

resources supported by ASM such as chassis, servers, storage, network switches, and adapters

About this Document

This document version is updated for ASM, version 7.6.

What is New in this Release

• Support for Hyper-V Compellent (Fibre Channel).

• VMs and Application support for Hyper-V or SCVMM.

• Support for ESXi NetApp Storage.

• Ability to clone a configuration of a server and apply it to another server.

• iSCSI and Fibre Channel boot support for Windows and Linux.

• iSCSI and Fibre Channel boot service migration support for Windows and Linux.

• Support for Windows 2008 R2 deployment.

• Ability to clone Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Machine from virtual machine or template.

• Template updates including new template for SQL Server Windows 2012 Support.

• Service Mobility — Capability to migrate server’s BIOS, NICs, storage connectivity, and assigned

identity information to another server in a designated server pool.

• Flexible Configurations — Provides multiple implementation choices for both network card and fabric

configuration.