Owner's Manual

– Full lifecycle management of physical and virtual infrastructure and workloads.
• Deep virtualization integration
— Manage cluster-level and virtual machine (VM) lifecycle.
• Resource pooling and dynamic allocation
— Optimize capital expenditures by creating and
managing physical and virtual IT resource pools.
• Radically simplified management
— Powerful and intuitive user interface that makes it easy to set up,
deploy, and manage your IT environment and enables simplified integration with third party tools.
• Open and extensible — An architecture that integrates with the IT of today and tomorrow; this means
being able to plug a new solution into your existing architecture, as well as giving you flexibility in the
future to adopt new technical innovations.
ASM makes it easy to automate IT service delivery and to manage your IT environment end-to-end. You
can improve and accelerate service and infrastructure delivery, maximize efficiency across your IT service
lifecycle, and consistently achieve high-quality IT services.
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.
• Service Lifecycle Enhancements supports:
– Ability to scale up storage, hosts, and virtual machines.
– Ability to retry and deploy a failed service.
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:
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