Dell Active System Manager Version 7.1- User Manual

Dell Active System Manager Version 7.1

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 3 – Contents
  • Page 6 – Tables
  • Page 7 – Figures
  • Page 10 – Active System
  • Page 12 – Active System 1000 chassis,; Deploying OVF
  • Page 13 – Importing OVF from the vSphere Client
  • Page 14 – Changing Key Access Credentials
  • Page 15 – must; Assigning IP Address to the Active System Manager
  • Page 17 – /etc/hosts file and update the system to use an NTP; /etc/hosts file with the DNS name of the NTP server in your
  • Page 19 – Adding Additional Licenses; Settings; Configuring Active System Manager Services
  • Page 20 – Verifying Service Status
  • Page 21 – Installing the Active System Manager Client; Installing Active System Manager Client Software on Windows; Finish to complete the installation process.; Installing the Active System Manager Client Software on Linux
  • Page 22 – Accessing Active System Manager using Windows client software
  • Page 26 – Active System Manager Setup; User and Group Management; Security Management—Users and Groups
  • Page 27 – Discovering Active System 1000 Components; Initiating Discovery; Configuring Discovery Setup
  • Page 28 – Add System. This feature displays; Adding System Details
  • Page 29 – Chassis Fabric B Purpose— Required. Must be set to “Fibre Channel (FC)”
  • Page 32 – Adding vCenter System Properties; System > vCenter configuration, click Add
  • Page 33 – Password—Required. Password to access and manage the vCenter.; Starting the Discovery Process
  • Page 34 – ESXServerHostname—Hostname to be assigned to the ESXi server.
  • Page 35 – Updating Repository Elements for ISO Bootable Images; Repositories on the thick client
  • Page 37 – Updating Repository Elements for Brocade Firmware Repository
  • Page 38 – Updating Repository Elements for Brocade Switch Configuration
  • Page 40 – Updating Repository Elements for VMware Baseline Images; Software Repository > Existing radio buttons.
  • Page 41 – VMware Baseline Images Repository and click; Discover to initiate the discovery of the repository files.
  • Page 44 – Configuring Networks; Accessing the Network Configuration Setup; Configuring the Networks; Configuring an existing Network
  • Page 45 – Configuring Static Network
  • Page 46 – Configuring Default Server Templates
  • Page 47 – Type of Network; VLAN Resource Type
  • Page 48 – Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning
  • Page 49 – Physical Templates and Orchestration
  • Page 50 – Global Orchestration parameters
  • Page 53 – Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning; Traffic Shaping tab.
  • Page 54 – Close
  • Page 55 – On-demand Orchestrations; Additional Storage for Cluster or Host
  • Page 56 – VMFS Datastore Provision
  • Page 57 – Updating Physical Templates
  • Page 58 – VLAN Component, click the Inventory tab, and update the VLANCount
  • Page 59 – Workload Provisioning Using Logical Templates; Pre-requisite to provision a Virtual Machine; Two VMs Connected to a VLAN
  • Page 60 – Single Virtual Machine with a VLAN; Single VM Connected to a VLAN; Updating a Baseline VM Image on Logical Templates
  • Page 61 – Remove to remove the existing
  • Page 64 – Blade Servers view
  • Page 65 – Power On Server; Managing Dell Force10 IOA Switch; Force10 IOA Switch view; Managing Dell Force10 ToR Switch
  • Page 66 – Force10 ToR Switch view; Managing Brocade Switch
  • Page 67 – Brocade Switch view; Managing VMware vCenter Objects; VMware Clusters
  • Page 68 – VMware Clusters view; VMware Hosts
  • Page 69 – VMware Host view
  • Page 72 – Resource Allocation by Sessions Report
  • Page 73 – Resource Allocation by Hosts Report; Resource Allocation by Groups Report
  • Page 74 – Top Ten Resource Allocation Report; By Group—Similar to “By User”, but consolidated at the group level.
  • Page 75 – Top Ten Resource Utilization Report
  • Page 76 – VM Utilization by Session Report
  • Page 78 – Cluster Utilization (Consolidated) Report
  • Page 79 – Storage Utilization (Consolidated) Report; CPU and Memory Utilization Showback Report
  • Page 80 – CPU & Memory Utilization Showback Report
  • Page 81 – Reset Zoom
  • Page 83 – Appendix B—Build of Materials
  • Page 84 – Appendix C—Firmware and Software Base Lineup
  • Page 87 – Modifying the ESXi boot.cfg Configuration File
  • Page 88 – Creating a Kickstart Configuration File; dhcp. In case the value
  • Page 89 – Adding the new image to the software repositories
  • Page 90 – Following parameters for each server is required:; VLAN for IOA Configuration
  • Page 91 – NOTE: The base line VMs needs to have VMware Tools installed.
  • Page 92 – Appendix I—FAQs
  • Page 94 – DellForce10SampleConfig
  • Page 99 – Components view, drag and drop a new VLAN component in a running; Save in order to save the changes done to the running session.; VLAN ID
  • Page 100 – Networking Configuration tab available under; Add a PUBLIC_LAN Configuration; AttachServerProfile with following parameters:
  • Page 101 – Attach Server Profile; VMware - Update ESXi Server Port
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Summary

Page 3 - Contents

3 Contents Introduction to the Active System 1000 Solution .................................................................... 8 Audience .................................................................................................................... 8 Support .....................................

Page 6 - Tables

6 Tables Table 1. Solution Component ....................................................................................... 9 Table 2. Active System 1000-Supported Configurations ...................................................... 10 Table 3. Deployment Options .....................................

Page 7 - Figures

7 Figures Security Management—Users and Groups ............................................................ 26 Figure 1. Adding System Details ................................................................................... 28 Figure 2. Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning ................

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