Page 3 - Contents
Contents 1 Overview................................................................................................................. 5 About this Document ............................................................................................................................ 5 What is New in thi...
Page 5 - Overview; About this Document; Accessing Online Help
1 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...
Page 6 - Other Documents You May Need; Licensing
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. Additionally, in the ...
Page 7 - ASM Port and Protocol Information
ASM Port and Protocol Information The following ports and communication protocols used by ASM to transfer and receive data. Table 1. ASM Port and Protocol Information Ports Protocols Port Type Direction Use 22 SSH TCP Inbound / Outbound I/O Module 23 Telnet TCP Outbound I/O Module 53 DNS TCP Outboun...
Page 8 - Installation and Quick Start; Information Prerequisites; Deployment Prerequisites
2 Installation and Quick Start The following sections provide installation and quick start information, including step-by-step instructions for deploying and configuring ASM in VMware vSphere or Microsoft virtualization environment. Only one instance of ASM should be installed within a network envir...
Page 13 - Prerequisites for Rack Server, S5000, and Compellent
Prerequisites for Rack Server, S5000, and Compellent The following table describes the prerequisites for the FCoE solution offered using Rack Server, S5000, and Compellent. For more information, see http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20387203 Resource Prerequisites S5000 •...
Page 15 - Prerequisites for Rack Server, S5000, Brocade and Compellent
Resource Prerequisites • Create a FCoE VLAN interface vlan <VLAN ID> [Create VLAN for FCoE] exit • Create FCoE Map fcoe-map default_full_fabric fabric-id <FCoE VLAN ID> vlan <FCoE VLAN Id> fc-map <FC MAP> exit • Apply FCoE MAP to interface interface fibrechannel 0/0 fabric de...
Page 18 - Prerequisites for Rack Server, Cisco Nexus, and Compellent
Resource Prerequisites Example interface vfc101 bind mac-address 5C:F9:DD:16:EF:07 no shutdown interface vfc102 bind mac-address 5C:F9:DD:16:EF:21 no shutdown • Move back into the VSAN database and create entries for the new VFC just created and create entries for the FC port(s) that will be used. v...
Page 19 - Compellent
Resource Prerequisites • Instantiate but do not configure the upstream port-channel (LAG) to the core /aggregation switch. • Instantiate but do not configure the downstream port-channel (LAG) to the IOA4. • Create the VFC interface to bind to the servers CNA FIP MAC address. This can be located in t...
Page 24 - System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Prerequisites; Deploying ASM from VMware vSphere Client
Resource Prerequisites Dell Compellent Create fault domain as per Dell Compellent best practices. System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Prerequisites ASM manages resource on Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager through Windows Remote Management (WinRM). Windows RM must be enabled ...
Page 25 - Deploying ASM using SCVMM
Click Next to continue. 8. If there is more than one datastore available on the host, the Datastore page displays. Select the location to store virtual machine (VM) files, and then click Next to continue. 9. On the Disk Format page, choose one of the following options: • To allocate storage space to...
Page 26 - Deploying ASM on Hyper-V host
4. Click Next . h. On the Select Destination page, select the destination host group that contains the Hyper-V server where you want to deploy ASM VM. Click Next . i. On the Select Host page, select the host on which you want to deploy ASM, and then click Next . j. On the Configuration Settings page...
Page 27 - Configuring ASM Virtual Appliance; Changing Dell Administrator Password; Configuring Static IP Address in the Virtual Appliance
3 Configuring ASM Virtual Appliance You must configure the following settings in the virtual appliance console before you start using ASM: • Change Dell administrator password. For detailed information, see Changing Delladmin Password • Configure static IP Address in the virtual appliance. For detai...
Page 29 - Customizing Virtual Machine Templates or Virtual
4 Customizing Virtual Machine Templates for VMware and Hyper-V ASM supports cloning virtual machines (VM) or virtual machine templates in VMware, and cloning virtual machine templates in Hyper-V. For ASM virtual machine or virtual machine template cloning, the virtual machine or virtual machine temp...
Page 31 - Customizing Linux Template
NOTE: Additional lines may be present in the puppet.conf file for your system. It is not necessary to delete any information from this file. You just need to ensure the previously noted section is present in the file. Customizing Linux Template Perform the following task to customize Linux template:...
Page 32 - Customizing Windows Template
b. Run the following command, and ensure that you see the above line, to verify the crontab is updated as expected or not, crontab -l 6. After completing customization, turn off the virtual machine. To create a virtual machine template, follow the appropriate steps for virtualization environment. NO...
Page 34 - Adding NetApp Ruby SDK
5 Configuring ASM Virtual Appliance for NetApp Storage Support For ASM to support NetApp, perform the following tasks: • Add NetApp Ruby SDK libraries to the appliance. For more information about adding SDK libraries, see Adding NetApp Ruby SDK • Enable HTTP/HTTPs for the NFS share. For more informa...
Page 35 - Enable HTTP or HTTPs for NFS share; Configuring NetApp Storage Component
sudo patch /etc/pupetlabs/puppet/modules/netapp/lib/puppet/util/network_device/netapp/NaServer.rb < /tmp/NaServer.patch 8. Update the permissions on the NetApp module. To update the permissions, run the following command: sudo chmod 755 /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/netapp/lib/puppet/util/networ...
Page 37 - Completing Initial Configuration
6 Completing Initial Configuration Log in to ASM using the appliance IP address, After logging into ASM, you need to complete the basic configuration setup in the Initial Setup wizard. For more information about completing the initial setup, see the Active System Manger Version 8.0 User’s Guide . 37
Page 39 - Deploying WinPE on the Virtual Appliance; Creating WinPE Image and Updating Install Media for
A Deploying WinPE on the Virtual Appliance You need to perform the following configuration tasks before using ASM to deploy Windows OS. NOTE: You should use Microsoft ADK 8.1 or ADK 8.0 installed in the default location.. 1. Create a Windows .iso that has been customized for use with ASM using ADK a...
Page 40 - Adding OS Image Repositories
NOTE: • If any additional drivers are required, add the drivers under the “Drivers” folder in the build directory you created on your ADK machine. The drivers are installed into the Windows image, if applicable. The drivers that do not apply to the OS being processed are ignored. • If you want deplo...
Page 43 - Configure DHCP on Windows 2012 DHCP Server; Create the DHCP User Class
B Configuring DHCP or PXE on External Servers The PXE service requires a DHCP server configured to provide boot server (TFTP PXE server) information and specific start-up file information. ASM PXE implementation uses the iPXE specification so that the configuration details include instructions to al...
Page 44 - Create the DHCP Policy; Create the Boot File Scope Option
Create the DHCP Policy 1. Open the Windows 2012 DHCP Server DHCP Manager. 2. In the console tree, expand the scope that will service your ASM PXE network. Right-click Policies and select New Policy . The DHCP Policy Configuration Wizard is displayed. 3. Next to Policy Name , type iPXE and enter the ...
Page 46 - Configuring DHCP for Linux
Configuring DHCP for Linux You can manage the configuration of the Linux DHCPD service by editing the dhcpd.conf configuration file. The dhcpd.conf is located at /etc/dhcp directory of most Linux distributions. If the DHCP is not installed on your Linux server, install the Network Infrastructure Ser...
