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Dell Active System Manager Version 7.0 Solution Guide

1. Organize Mew Folder p oF 7 al Mame Date modified Type Size aw Favorites n ero Snapshots 2 25 2013 8 49 AM File Folder RB Desktop E 25 n Daimio di Virtual Hard Disks 2 25 2013 8 49 AM File Falder Recent Places di virtual Machines 2 25 2013 9 06 4M File Folder El 3 Libraries Eg Documents a Music H Pictures BB videos p E Computer t Local Disk C LA CD Drive E wD a Mew valume Fs ccs Mew volume M T Falder Active System Manager 7 0 Build 21286 Microsoft select Falder Cancel p 19 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 3 4 9 Select a folder to house the VHD and click Select Folder Figure 8 Import Settings Import Virtual Machine Specify the location of the folder that contains the virtual machine Files Location F exportMacthye Systen M anager 0 Build 21266 Microsoft Settings Import settings Move or restore the virtual machine use the existing unique ID C Copy the virtual machine create a new unique ID E Duplicate all files so the same virtual machine can be imported again d The same virtual machine cannot be imported again if you do not copy the tiles unless you A have backed them up ta another location First Import Cancel Verify the location that contains the virtual machine files and click Import Figure 9 Newly Imported VM Displayed on the Hyper V Manager J File Actio
2. a LL ONUNNEEELLLALAk k41 KX0 L 14 i Addresses NEM Address Netmask Gateway ada PSL Delete Mw Require IPv4 addressing for this connection to complete Houtes i Cancel 6 Click Add to provide the IP address and other networking details for example DNS as shown in the next figure 23 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 16 Adding IP Addresses Wired 802 1x Security Pv4 Settings Method Manual a Addresses Netmask Gateway 192 166 120 156 24 DNS servers 192 168 120 216 DHCP client ID Pe Require IPv4 addressing for this connection to complete 7 Click Apply Once this is done open the terminal by clicking Applications System Tools Terminal 24 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 2 4 Figure 17 Terminal Console Computer a root asm galeforce v w AG File Edit View Search Terminal Help root s Home root asm galeforce i cC Execute the etc init d network restart command Log in to the appliance with the newly configured IP address This will ensure that IP address is configured correctly on appliance Installing the Active System Manager License To install the Active System Manager license via the web client perform the following steps 1 Close all Ac
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5. Role Optional Top Bottom SupportedVLANIDs VLAN IDs that could be provisioned on the Top Of Rack ToR switch Sample input format 2 1024 the switch supports a VLAN range from 2 to 1 024 Terminal Server IP Address Optional Required if switch to managed using the Terminal Server port Terminal Server Port Optional Required if switch to managed using Terminal Server port Terminal Server Username Optional Terminal Server username if configured Terminal Server Password Optional Terminal Server password if configured 3 2 1 3Adding vCenter System Properties To add vCenter system properties perform the following steps 1 On the Active System Manager gt System gt vCenter configuration click Add vCenter 2 For VMware vCenter discovery provide the following system properties Figure 32 Adding vCenter System Properties ASM GaleForce Active System Configuration Select elements to view update details amp System zl vCenter 2 88 VMware Host System properties Name is mandatory and should be unique Name vCenter 2 wv Add Element Remove Name Unique key or name for VMware vCenter which is used to import or identify vCenter in the Active System Manager Username Username to access and manage the vCenter This user must have full administrator rights to the vCenter If the vCenter Server is part of a Windows Domain then enter the username as use
6. 54810 bottom switch conf final cfg configurationFiles Dell Configuration El xp 54810 top switch conf final cfg configurationFiles Dell Configuration 5 p gt Select All Deselect All Associate Bulk Associate Disassociate 14 Click Discover to initiate the discovery of the repository files The list of discovered elements in the repository displays Figure 61 List of Repository Files Repository Elements Discovery and Association i Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements 10 u Name Path Type Bal A AS800 Bottom Switch config configurationFiles Dell Element z 45800 Bottom Switch GPOC config configurationFiles Dell Element ml A AS800 Top Switch config configurationFiles Dell Element z 7 4 AS800 Top Switch GPOC confiq configurationFiles Dell Element mi 15 Right click the selected discovered elements update the Type to Configuration File and click Finish 57 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 62 Updating Discovered Elements Type to Configuration File Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements Name Path Type FTOS SE 8 3 12 1 bin Dell Farcel Image File Xl S4810 bottom switch conf final cfg configurationFiles Dell Configuration a j
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8. string gt E Image File string string string string string string string string string Table 6 lists and defines the available Orchestration Input parameters Table 6 ImageName ESXServerLicenseKey vCenterlPAddress vCenterClusterName Orchestration Input Parameters Selects the ESXi image from the repository The orchestration is already mapped with an existing ESXi image available on the appliance License key for the VMware ESXi hosts that will be provisioned by the orchestration vCenter IP Address as provided in the Discovery Setup configuration vCenter cluster name that will be provisioned by the orchestration Note The cluster name passed as an argument must not be the Management cluster 69 Active System Manager Solution Guide vCenterDatacenter GoldDatastoreVolumeName DatastoreVolumeSize StoragePoolName BootProtocol vCenterFolderName InstallationDisk Active System 800 AS800 vCenter data center to be used for provisioning Volume name consisting of baseline VM images that will be used for cloning new VMs Size in GB of the datastore to be provisioned on servers or a cluster Name of the pool on which the volume should be created for provisioning the datastore This input should be provided from the EqualLogic Resource Pool repository DHCP Static Default is static If the IP address of the server is expected to come from DHCP server optiona
9. t 2 ISO Bootable Image 9 Repositories gt Ge PAE Bootable Image t b ToR Switch Confiqui H Spaan I b 2 VMware Baseline Im H Collapse All nventory a Import Export Operations gt Refresh 2 Right click the view and select Repositories The Custom Repository Select Repository Type dialog box displays 52 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 55 Selecting Repository Type to Update Software Repository W X Select Repository Type Select repository type to create a new repository or select existing repository to update File Server New File Transfer Protocol 9 Existing Software Configuration Management New Concurrent Versions System 9 Existing Software Repository 5 New Trivial File Transfer Protocol for PXE Boot Existing ISO Bootable Images 3 Click the Software Repository gt Existing radio buttons 4 Using the drop down menu select ISO Bootable Images and click Next The Update Trivial File Transfer Protocol for ISO Boot dialog box displays 53 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 56 Update TFTP for PXE Boot gems Repository 2 Update Trivial File Transfer Protocol for I50 Boot Specify the Trivial File Transfer Protecol for ISO Boot provisioning properties Press Next to get the details of the repository Name ISO Bootable Images Description ISO Bootable Ima
10. A02 NA Table 14 displays a list of firmware and software base lineups grouped by management blades Table 14 Resource BIOS iDRAC7 Enterprise LCC Life Cycle Controller 2 Network Controller Broadcom FW EqualLogic MEM VMware ESXi Firmware and Software Base Lineup Active System Manager 7 0 1 5 0 1 35 35 1 1 1 18 7 2 20 1 1 1 9 1 799733 A02 90 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Table 15 displays a list of firmware and software base lineups grouped by chassis storage and switches Table 15 Firmware and Software Base Lineup Chassis Storage Switches Resource Active System Manager 7 0 CMC 4 31 PowerEdge M I O Aggregator 8 3 17 3 8 3 17 2 Force10 4810 LAN 8 3 12 1 Force10 55 OOB 8 3 5 3 EqualLogic PS Arrays 6 0 2 R305616 Table 16 displays a list of firmware and software base lineups grouped by management VMs and software Table 16 Firmware and Software Base Lineup Resource Active System Manager 7 0 CMC NA PowerEdge M I O Aggregator NA 8 3 17 2 Force10 4810 LAN 8 3 12 1 Force10 55 OOB 8 3 5 3 EqualLogic PS Arrays 6 0 2 R305616 Table 17 displays a list of firmware and software base lineups grouped by management VMs and software Table 17 Firmware and Software Base Lineup Management VMs and Software Resource Active System Manager 7 0 Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard N A VMware vCenter Server 5 1 0 799731 Dell EqualLogic Virtua
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12. storage arrays and switches TOR Make sure all elements have network connectivity and the associated element management interfaces are accessible from the Active System Manager server Active System Manager Configuration System properties Select elements to view update details Name is mandatory and should be unique System sene Mame AS800 1 E Asano 1 Username ae Dell Chassis Add vCenter a Dell EqualLogic P56110 Password Dell Farcel0 54810 Add Element Dell Forcel0 S4810 Remove 4 1 3 Select the individual components and provide the required IP address login credentials per the figure 33 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 27 Dell Chassis Element Properties Discovery Configuration Setup Use this UI to discover one or more Dell Active Systems with associated servers storage arrays and switches TOR Before you proceed it is recommended to Gather IP addresses and access credentials associated with the chassis blade infrastructure elements storage arrays and switches TOR e Make sure all elements have network connectivity and the associated element management interfaces are accessible from the Active System Manager server Active System Manager Configuration Element Properties Select elements to view update details Specify element details Assettag and IP Address are mandatory 4 z System w Add System Man
13. 1 oto ti Eile Fal Ern tum rirT v Element Set Type Set as Base Image File Delete conflicting Configuration File F Finish 16 Click Associate to associate the selected element with the Dell Force10 resource type and click Finish Figure 63 Associating Resource Types Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements a Mame Path J FTOS SE 8 3 12 1 bin Dell Forcel Image File ivl Xp 54810 bottom switch conf final cfg configurationFiles Dell Configuration vl xp 54810 top switch conf final cfg confiqurationFiles Dell Configuration v k Resource Types Resource Instances 58 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 3 3 5 Updating Repository Elements for VMware Baseline Images This repository contains VMware baseline images for creating VM clones To update the repository elements for VMware baseline images perform the following steps 1 Open the Software Repositories view in the Setup perspective Figure 64 Software Repositories View a i Software Repositories pos ais No Filtering E Name Path DashBoard E EqualLogic Firmware b gt EqualLogic Resource Eeh gt ISO Bootable Image ic b PXE Bootable Image ia E ToR Switch Configui R t E VMware Baseline Im l Operations i a Er New Element Repos
14. Cancel 3 Click the Software Repository Existing radio buttons 4 Using the drop down menu select EqualLogic Storage Resource Pools and click Next 46 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 The Software Repository Update EqualLogic Resource Pool Repository dialog box displays Figure 44 Update EqualLogic Resource Pool Repository Software Repository Seo Update EqualLogic Resource Pool Repository Specify the EqualLogic Resource Pool Repository provisioning properties Press Next to NEL get the details of the repository d Name Equallogic Resource Pool Description Equallogic Resource Pool Location Pattern File Format Folder Format Repository Properties Name Value Host 192 168 120 682 Username grpadmin Password seris Additional Properties Element Type Image File Note Associated domain will be used to save the repository elements in Save As operation 5 Update the Host Username and Password parameters These parameters correspond to Storage group Management IP address group username group password respectively and click Next 6 Click Finish Note Ifa new resource pool is added and information needs to be updated skip this step 7 Click Discover to display all the storage pools available on the Storage Array 47 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 45 Discovering New Elements Repo
15. Dell PowerEdge M I O Aggregator in each Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis Up to 8x Dell EqualLogic PS6110 series arrays 2x Dell PowerEdge R620 servers with embedded VMware vSphere 5 1 hosting management VMs 1x Dell Force10 S55 used as a 1Gb out of band management switch Dell Active System Manager VMware vCenter Server Dell Management Plug in for VMware vCenter Dell OpenManage Essentials Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager VSM for VMware Dell EqualLogic SAN Headquarters HQ VMware vCloud Connector Dell Repository Manager 13 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 1 5 Active System 800 Supported Configurations Table 2 lists the Active System Manager solution for the Active System 800 supported configurations Table 2 Active System 800 Supported Configurations Configuration Support M1000e chassis and supported blade types M620 Support firmware images as per the Active System Manager solution for Active System 800 Dell Force10 Top of Rack ToR 4810 switches Supported FTOS and base configuration will be packaged in the virtual appliance The base configuration should be updated for management IP and virtual LAN VLAN per data center deployment need Dell EqualLogic PS6110 Storage Array Supported firmware versions will be packaged in the virtual appliance VMware vCenter 5 1 for virtual machine VM workloads Supported ESXi 5 1 image will be bundled in the virtual applia
16. Repositories If the new image is added by replacing the earlier image directory then no change is required If the new image is added with a new name directory then ISO Bootable Image repository must be updated as described in 3 3 4 Updating Repository Elements for ISO Bootable Images section 99 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 F Appendix F Planning Worksheet Table 18 Out of Band Management IP Address Configuration Equipment IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway Username Password Chassis 1 CMC Chassis 2 CMC iDRAC for all M620 Force10 4810 Switch1 Force10 4810 Switch2 EqualLogic Storage Array Group Management EqualLogic Storage Array Group on iSCSI Network Active System Manager Appliance vCenter F 1 ESXI Server IP Configuration The following parameters for each server are required ISCSIVNICIPAddresses Space separated list of IP addresses to be assigned to iSCSI virtual network interface cards vNICs For example for updating information for vmnic6 vmnic7 using the Update Port Group with iSCSI VLAN operation the value will be in the 192 168 120 XX 192 168 120 YY format The IP Addresses needs to be separated by a space ISCSINetmask iSCSI subnet mask of the iSCSI virtual network interface cards vNICs isCSIChapUsername iSCSI Chap username used to access volume of EqualLogic Storage Array isCSIChapSecret iSCSI Chap secret corresponding to iSCSI Chap userna
17. Repositories view in the setup perspective by clicking Setup gt Software Repositories on the client Figure 36 Software Repositories View E Software Repositories No Filtering E T 4 X E Mame Path b E EqualLogic Firmware New Element gt 5 EqualLogic Resource gt ISO Bootable Image c Repositories gt PXE Bootable Image b E ToR Switch Configui Expand All I gt E VMware BaselineIm Collapse All nventory ry Import Export perations gt Refresh 2 Right click the view and select Repositories The Custom Repository Select Repository Type dialog box displays 41 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 37 Selecting Repository Type to Update v Mp 8 Custom Repository 2 a select Repository Type Select repository type to create a new repository or select existing repository to update O File Server New File Transfer Protocol 8 Existing Software Configuration Management New Concurrent Versions System Existing Software Repository New Equallogic Firmware Repository Fintsh 3 Click the Software Repository gt Existing radio buttons 4 Using the drop down menu select the Repository Type and click Next 5 Update the IP address username password and base directory location on the server where the firmware images are present it can be the access information for the Active Sy
18. System Manager Configuration Active System Manager Domain Select elements to view update details System domain comes pre configured with Active System Manager Based on your deployment your administrator may have configured multiple domains amp System Add System EJ As800 1 e Add System t Dell_Forcel0_1 Dell Forcel0 S48 Add vCenter Choose this option if you wish to add a full pre fabricated converged Infrastructure for discovery Dell_Forcel0_2 Dell Forcel0 S48 e Add vCenter 22 DellChassisl Dell Chassi Add Element ESR proie Choose this option to add the VMware vCenter instance that will be used for managing the vSphere w PS6110Storage Dell EqualLogic I Remove virtualization environment i vCenter 1 e Add Element Ss vCenterl VMware Host Choose this option if you wish to add more elements to existing infrastructure 3 2 1 2Adding Details for the Active System 800 Unit To add details for the Active System 800 unit click Add System This feature displays names for Active System 800 components that will be discovered for example e Dell Chassis e Dell EqualLogic Storage Array e Dell Force10 Figure 26 Adding System Details E Discovery Configuration Setup Use this UI to discover one or more Dell Active Systems with associated servers storage arrays and switches TOR Before you proceed it is recommended to GatherIP addresses and access credentials associated with the chassis blade infrastructure elements
19. as specified in the template c Create iSCSI Port groups and install configure the MEM VIBs Create a volume of the EqualLogic Storage Array a The new volume is created per physical session based on the size specified in the Orchestration input b The authentication of the new volume is configured based on the Chap username and secret key specified in the inventory database of the servers Add hosts to the vCenter at datacenter level The datastore created in the orchestration is used for provisioning the VM in the logical workload templates Provides access to Gold volume and using Gold volume creates base VMs Installs EqualLogic MEM modules The MEM package is transferred to the volume created in the above step to enable the installation Registers base VMs to the vCenter for logical template provisioning Associated Orchestrations with Cluster and Standalone Host Templates Each physical template has three orchestrations associated with it Figure 72 Orchestrations gt Orchestrations topology admin Cluster VMware ES or deployment with HDD with vSwitch io Ew x 4 topology admin Cluster VMware ESXI 5 1 Hypervisor deployment with HDD with vSwitch 3 4 Ondemand 1 VMFS Datastore Provision 4 gt Setup 1 Configure ESXi Servers using PXE Boot 4 Teardown 1 Cleanup Orchestration 66 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 1 On demand VMFS Datastore Provision T
20. desktop click Start gt Run gt Browse navigate to the setup exe file and click OK Alternatively from your Windows Explorer window navigate to the setup exe file and double click it A Security Warning window prompts you to run the file 3 Click Run to enable the installation wizard to guide you through the installation process Note If an existing version of the client is on the client machine invoking the installer prompts you to select to uninstall the existing version already on the system Once selected the installer uninstalls the existing version and then exits You must perform the originally intended install after uninstalling the previous version as a single step 4 Click Finish to complete the installation process 27 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 2 6 2 Installing the Active System Manager Client Software on Mac To install the Active System Manager Client software on a Mac OS perform the following steps 1 Download the ActiveSystemManager macosx x86_64_7 0 0_xyzt zip file 2 Unzip the file into a specific folder destination on your hard drive 3 Create the Active System Manager folder and move the file contents to this location 4 Execute the Active System Manager app file 2 6 3 Installing the Active System Manager Client Software on Linux To install the Active System Manager Client software on Linux perform the following steps 1 Download the ActiveSystemManager l
21. e Allows access to specific cluster or standalone ESXi hosts as applicable e Creates a VMFS datastore on a cluster or standalone ESXI hosts as applicable 67 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 4 5 Updating Physical Templates To update cluster and standalone templates that require specific data before scheduling a template for cluster provisioning perform the following steps 1 Update the template for a blade server Updates the blade server count for cluster provisioning Figure 74 Updating Template for Blade Server es LAN and iSCSI Traffic iSCSI Traffic am B ServerDeployment VLAN Auto A Dell EquallogicStoragePool 1 Template Link L Properties Ncc Property Value Provisioning Name Dell ServerDeployment Manufacturer Dell seine i Model ServerDeployment Configuration Files Description Image Files Virtual Object Count 1 Save the template by Ctrl S or by selecting the save icon on the thick client after making the changes Update the template for VLANs Figure 75 Updating Template for VLANs __ Properties Resource Name Value Scheduling Permissi Provisioning ISL Hide VLANCount 5 TTE VLANId Hide Configuration Files Tem Colne Select the VLAN Component click the Inventory tab and update the VLANCount with the number of VLANs to be provisioned Update the VLAN ID range as applicable and update the VLANId parameter Figure 76 Up
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24. in the template screenshot below e Once the VMs are provisioned the user can also launch custom applications as applicable using custom methods from Active System Manager Windows client e For Application launch e Select a VM in a session e Right click on the VM e Select the Applications e Select the Application to be launched Figure 81 Applications Microsoft RDC View Resource Logs System Operation Custom Operation Monitoring Methods Applications Launch VNC Viewer Open Session Audit Report billed cee Microsft RDC LROIOLRIR Launch SSH Using Open SSH SPLES j Launch 55H Using Putty Status VMWare ESA Web Access 71 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 5 2 Single Virtual Machine with VLAN The Single virtual machine with a VLAN Logical template can be used to create VM workloads by scheduling logical template over existing physical resources session to consume the compute and storage resources of specific physical components Figure 82 Single VM Connected to a VLAN a f q Traffic Link 1 N 4 A RHEL 1 VLAN Auto Template Link When scheduled this template performs the following sequence of operations 5 3 Clones and powers on a single VMware VMs based on the Gold VM image associated in the template Creates port groups corresponding to a VLAN component on the vSwitch see Figure 55
25. operational state Additional details of these configurations can be found in the embedded files Q10 Is it required to create pools on Dell EqualLogic storage array A10 Creating pool is optional If there are no user defined pools on the EqualLogic Storage array then a newly created volume becomes part of the default storage pool Pools can be created by executing the PoolCreate method on the EqualLogic group object in the Operation Center View Q11 Is HTTPS supported for connecting to Active System Manager A11 Yes HTTPS is supported on Active System Manager Q12 Is terminal server connectivity required for Dell Force10 switches A12 Terminal server connectivity to Dell Force10 switches is optional Q13 Does the default password of the Active System Manager appliance get updated A13 The appliance login password can be changed If the password is changed Software repositories that are configured on Active System Manager Appliance should be modified with the new password Q14 How would a user know what s the optional parameters in an orchestration step method A14 Parameters with the sign suffixed in front of them are mandatory and the ones without sign are optional See figure for exampls Figure 110 Parameters Parameters Name Value Data Type Unit zi BE SimageName san ISO Bootable Ima sting E ESXServerLicenseKey string S vCenterlPAddress 192 168 120 125 string B vCenterClusterName AS800Cluster s
26. password to be assigned during unattended installation 3 3 Software Repositories Available in the Active System Manager Virtual Appliance The following repositories are pre packaged and available in the Active System Manager virtual appliance Applicable for Dell Servers PXE bootable images where the repository has the ESXi PXE bootable installer image already configured and ISO bootable images where the ESXi ISO bootable installer image is available Applicable for Dell EqualLogic Storage EqualLogic Storage Firmware The repository has EqualLogic firmware images configured EqualLogic Storage Resource Pools ToR Switch Configurations and Images The repository has switch images and a base configuration configured VMware ESXi images Figure 35 Software Repositories C E Software Repositories uiz No Filtering io E v Mame DashBoard gt Equallogic Firmware Repo Equallogic Resource Pool ISO Bootable Images PAE Bootable Images eid ToR Switch Configurations and Images Inventory gt VMware Baseline Images 40 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 3 3 1 Updating Repository Elements for Firmware Images on EqualLogic Firmware Repo The EqualLogic StorageArray repository contains firmware images to be used for updating the firmware on EqualLogic Storage Arrays To update these repository elements perform the following steps 1 Open the Software
27. period of given time e g Weekly Daily and Hourly The figure displays an example of a CPU and Memory Utilization Showback report Figure 105 CPU amp Memory Utilization Showback Report CPU Memory Utilization Over Time Graph CPU Utilization in Click and drag in the plot area to zoom in B m Thursday Jan 24 18 30 CPU Utilization in 16 5 CPU Utilization in X 06 00 12 00 18 00 25 Jan You can view the data for a specific time interval with a minimum time interval limit of ten minutes between two data points To view the specific time interval data select a point and drag the mouse to a desired data point this will show the data for the specific time interval You can rest the time interval to default by clicking Reset Zoom Figure 106 Reset Zoom CPU Memory Utilization Over Time Graph ns CPU Utilization in Click and drag in the plot area to zoom in 25 Reset zoom m CPU Utilization in X 18 00 19 00 20 00 21 00 22 00 Y 87 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 A Appendix A Deployment Activities A 1 Verifying Active System Manager Services To verify that all Active System Manager services are up and running perform the following steps 1 Log in as the user who installed the services 2 Run the following script to display the current status of all services including the Oracle database status cd asm galeforce gf sbin 1 Guctachco
28. sh Below is sample output Active System Manager Services Status Tascallarcion Release Version 7 0 Build Number 21286 Database vendor Oracle eq 11 20 10 Host asm galerorce Port 15921 Service name DB11G onec SE IR Wina wine Active System Manager Service Host asm galeforce Pore 40500 Secure Port 50500 Enterprise Dell Lab DEMO Stable ek Umm ain Domain Services Domain System Id Description Session server Host asm galeforce Port 40500 Secure Port Statuo RUNING 88 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 B Appendix B Build of Materials Table 11 displays a list of build of materials grouped by Resource Adapters Vendor Dell Dell Dell Dell Dell Dell Template VMware VMware Table 11 Build of Material Resource Adapters Model Description Chassis Dell Chassis resource adapter using WSMAN and RACADM CLI used for discovery operations Servers Dell Servers resource adapter using WSMAN and RACADM CLI used for provisioning the servers IOA Management of IO Aggregator EqualLogicPS6110 Management of EqualLogic storage EqualLogicStoragePool Management of EqualLogic storage pool Force10 S4810 Management of ToR switches VMwareLib VMware Host Provisioning on Blades Host VMware vCenter Management Virtual Machine VMware Virtual Machine Instance Management Table 12 displays a list of build of materials grouped by templates ID 1 Phys
29. sssssssessesesescesescoecesescesesoecesesceseseeceeesceeeo 81 7 4 Top Ten Resource Allocation Report ssssssesesescesessecesesoeoeseecoeoesosoeseeceoreeeceeesesoee 81 759 Top Ten Resource Utilization Report ues esame pe T OE M MMC IBRT PUE aIP CRI EUR T MP SRI vE RD UxXE 82 7 6 VUTIIZALION DY SESSION REDON cuo oe vere dove eir EE Ead va EPOR E ToC ER CHE PE Doa RO uva IRE 83 FATA Host Utilization Consolidated Report 5o esser cereo epe rex Hw ERIS FESR EP CIE D ere EE reDr YER 84 7 8 Cluster Utilization Consolidated REDO sictcxn ohiicasscctsiesasn EE Fe OS eoo ES UE EN EEFe OE ee CES IE RO RUE Uk eos 85 7 9 Storage Utilization Consolidated Report ccceeesseeeeeeeeeee eene hne 85 7 10 CPU and Memory Utilization Showback ReDOFE s sie dare ede oA IE de e I RNUR Ha cU ME 86 A Appendix A Depliovment ACUVIUIGS s cecidere x perve vibe be ee ee voveo e e Creed EP DR put 87 A 1 Verifying Active System Manager Services cccccccccccccccescccseccesnscceseccesssceeesccseeces 8 B Appendix BS BUiG or Materials 4c vaa Sasha RNV E VERSES vRIMUP NEM anes TATARA EET T 88 C Appendix C Firmware and Software Base Lineup ceeeseeeeeeeeeee eee hh he eher 89 D Appendix D Adding New ESXi PXE Images isieene serere PR Cr n RO E RE ROE E a RR OE RE PRCE CE E o xS EPSIS 91 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 D 1 Preparing the VMware ESXi 5 x Installation Media ccsccccneccccescccn
30. to the hypervisor Management subnet 3 Edit file etc sysconfig dhcpd and add following content to the file Command line options here DHCPDARGS eth1 4 Edit the etc dhcp dhcpd conf file 5 Update the values of the IP address ranges and subnets per the customer environment 6 Update the value of the next server with the VM appliance IP address on the same subnet as the DHCP server ethO IP address The next server represents the TFTP Server where the image is hosted O DHCP Server for Hypervisor management network T Uncomment Tel lowing lines wilh appropriate IP Address range subnet 192 168 122 0 netmask 255 255 255 0 4 Tangon Cam i oa a e T aea a NO allow lowing 7 allow 19Y6X6 t 9 c filename pxelinux 0 next server 192 109 122 50757 default gateway OS Omer OU eS dps seil e allie option subnet mask VID OU o Ew option domain name servers JS RS SI IET Ins option netbios Node Eype 2 default lease time 28800 max lease time 28800 G 4 2 Configuring the TFTP Server 102 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 The ESXi 5 1 customized image is embedded inside the appliance at var lib tftpboot esxi51 dell The image is configured to create a kickstart file dynamically based on the IP address provided in the Active System Manager inventory If the ESXi host is configured to learn the IP address through DHCP configured through orchestration and then there is
31. 01 244 rcharms NA Gold VM Element A ud 4 Resource Types Resource Instances 61 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 4 Physical Templates and Orchestration 4 1 Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning Template Cluster VMware ESXi 5 1 Hypervisor deployment ISO boot and Cluster VMware ESXi 5 1 Hypervisor deployment PXE boot can be used for installing ESXi 5 1 on an SD card hard disk respectively using PXE ISO Boot You can specify one or more blade servers using this template for creating a cluster Figure 70 Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning IOA TaR nee SCSI Traffic J Ne pen A Dell Servers d VLAN Auto JA Dell EquallagicStaragePaal 1 When this template is scheduled this template performs the following sequence of operations 1 Reserves single or multiple VLANs for VM traffic using a VLAN component Ifthe VLAN reserved in the session is not already configured on the ToR switches then the VLANs are created and tagged to appropriate port channels 2 IOA Configuration a C The VLAN IDs provided for Network1 Network2 Network4 and VLAN component in the physical template are created on the IOA server facing interfaces as Tagged VLANs The Native VLAN ID provided for Network1 is added as Un Tagged VLAN on the server facing interface The Native VLAN ID is mandatory for PXE boot scenario
32. 2 Managing vCenter Objects This section describes the following VMware vCenter managed objects e 6 2 1 Clusters and Hosts e 6 2 2 VMware vSwitches e 6 2 3 VMware Datastores Specifically this section describes how these managed objects can be directed through Active System Manager Operation Center view The vCenter discovery can be initiated using the Active System Manager Discovery facility which populates the Operation Center view of the Active System Manager 74 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 87 Operation Center View Mame a a ASS00 1 A800 a CGIFQV1 Chassis TOA IO Module Overview al Servers Server Overview 1 Slot Number 13 Slot Number gt 2 Slot Nurnber 3 Slot Number 4 Slat Number 6 Slot Number gt E 7b Slot Number fd Slot Number oT PS6110Storage DellEqualLogic 192 168 120 90 ForcelOSwitch 192 168 120 91 Forcel Switch gt a ManagedEquipment gt n MatrixSwitch al vCenter 1 vCenter gt es 192 168 120 125 vCenter Status 2x m To initiate the discovery of a VMware vCenter various discovery elements and their corresponding attributes can be provided as shown below in the Discovery Configuration Setup wizard steps for configuring the Discovery setup for a vCenter are detailed in the Discovery Configuration Setup section Discovery Configuration Setup ASM GaleForce Act
33. 3 NIC Partitioning a b NIC Partitioning is enabled on the CAN NIC Partitioning is only supported Broadcom CNA 4 Set NIC Attributes a b C d Configure the Min and Max Bandwidth Enable Disable iSCSI Offload on the NIC Partitions Enable LAN Mode Enable the Legacy boot protocol for PXE Boot scenario 62 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 5 Create the ISO files for each server dynamically based on the Server IP Address Hostname Name server values provided in the database 6 Mount the ISO using iDRAC Virtual Media on all the Servers and initiate the installation process 7 Configure the vSwitch configuration a Create the vSwitch and port groups based on Active System 800 deployment specification b Tag the port groups with appropriate VLANs as specified in the template c Create iSCSI Port groups and install configure the MEM VIBs 8 Create a volume of the EqualLogic Storage Array a The new volume is created per physical session based on the size specified in the Orchestration input b The authentication of the new volume is configured based on the Chap username and secret key specified in the inventory database of the servers 9 Create vCenter Cluster Datacenter if not already exists on the specified vCenter The cluster is created with default settings DRS On HA On EVC Disabled Note The cluster name passed as an argument must not be the Managemen
34. Active System 800 AS800 6 Operation Center View Administrative Operations 6 1 Managing Blades The following operations are provided on the Active System Manager Server Operation Center view to perform administrative tasks e Power On Server Used to power on the blade server using server iDRAC e Power Off Server User to power off the blade server using server iDRAC The migration of the VMs running on the server will be taken care by the VMware vMotion capability Figure 86 Supported Operations LJ Operation Center T Resource Information mo Resource Details Name St 4 im System Domain B Properties H9 Sessions E Templates Monitoring 4 LX GalePod AS800 z 4 E CGJFQVI Chassis Name Kaus 4 B IOA IO Module Overview E BlOSVersion 149 3 Switch 1 IOA E CMCIPAddress 192 168 120 49 E Switch 2 IOA B cpu 2 a E Servers Server Overview E DNSName idrac GDRBQV1 4 E 1 Slot Number 3 DRACIPAddress 192 168 120 106 server7 gale gpoc com Blade Server E Health OK 5 13 Slot Number 3 HostName server7 gale gpoc com B 2 Slot Number B Memory 32768 E 3 Slot Number E Madal DawerEdne MAIN B 4 Slot Number B 6 Slot Number E 7b Slot Number 3 7d Slot Number 63 Dell Storage DellEqualLogic Power Off Server Power Off Server 192 168 120 90 ForcelOSwitch Power On Server Power On Server 192 168 120 91 Forcel0Switch Supported Operations 6
35. Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 Version AO1 April 2013 z Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 This document is for informational purposes only and may contain typographical errors and technical inaccuracies The content is provided as is without express or implied warranties of any kind 2013 Dell Inc Trademarks used in this text Dell the Dell logo Dell Boomi Dell Precision OptiPlex Latitude PowerEdge PowerVault PowerConnect OpenManage EqualLogic Compellent KACE FlexAddress Force10 and Vostro are trademarks of Dell Inc Intel Pentium Xeon Core and Celeron are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U S and other countries AMD is a registered trademark and AMD Opteron AMD Phenom and AMD Sempron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc Microsoft Windows Windows Server Internet Explorer MS DOS Windows Vista and Active Directory are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc in the United States and or other countries Novell and SUSE are registered trademarks of Novell Inc in the United States and other countries Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and or its affiliates Citrix Xen XenS
36. BD Per Jerry Ness need more detail around the missing task that a VMFS datastore LUN for the GOLD images must be initially created on the This orchestration can be executed on demand when the session is in a Running state 2 Setup Configures the ESXi Servers using PXE Boot This orchestration executes when template provisioning starts and the session is in the Setting Up state 3 Teardown Cleanup Orchestration This orchestration executes when template provisioning start and session is in Setting up state 4 4 Additional Storage for Cluster or Host For additional VMFS storage or datastore need on a cluster or standalone ESXi host reserved through the Active System Manager you can execute on demand orchestration from a Running session For executing the on demand orchestration open the session by double clicking it On the session right click and select the VMFS Datastore Provisioning orchestration for execution Figure 73 VMFS Datastore Provision yt x m M 3 be LAN and iSCSI Traffic en iSCSI Traffic 1 Is d m f ia uL ue O Dell ServerDeployment T VLAN 255 Ly De System Operation Execute Orchestration t VMFS Datastore Provision Open Session Audit Report Cleanup Orchestration Configure ESXi Servers using PAE Boot Set Policies r t When executed orchestration performs the following sequence of operations e Creates a new volume on EqualLogic storage
37. E boot For enabling the Preboot Execution Environment PXE boot the following additional services are configured on the appliance G 1 TFTP Server TFTP services are enabled and deployed at var lib tftpboot on the appliance The ESXi Dell customized image is embedded within the appliance G 2 HTTP Server HTTP services are enabled on the appliance G 3 DHCP Server DHCP services are disabled on the appliance to avoid any issue with an existing DHCP server that may already be running on the same customer network For the PXE setup requirement the DHCP services should be running on the same network as the PXE The DHCP server is configured to use Eth1 on the appliance 101 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 The VM appliance is created with one vNIC The vNIC needs to be in the Hypervisor Management Network G 4 Configuring PXE Setup with Embedded DHCP Server The DHCP Services needs to be enabled on separate network interface on the appliance Before configuring the DHCP Services add a new Virtual NIC on the appliance using the VMware vSphere client and restart the appliance G 4 1 Configuring the DHCP Server To configure the DHCP server perform the following steps 1 Connect to the VM appliance console using the root user credentials through either the VMware vSphere Client VM console or the Hyper V VM console 2 Assign a static IP address on the eth1 interface This IP Address must belong
38. LAM identifier specifies the virtual LAN that this virtual machine will use Far all Nome network communications through this network adapter Lf Diskette Drive 2 n Mane 7 Click Connect to launch the console Figure 12 Connecting to Launch the Console irtual Machines Actye Sustem Manager 0 Build 21 286 Microsoft Connect Settings Turn Off Shut Down Save Pause Reset 2 3 Assigning IP Address to the Active System Manager To assign the IP Address to the Active System Manager appliance perform the following steps 1 On the vSphere or Hyper V Manager client select the deployed Active System Manager appliance and open its console 21 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 13 Logging In to the Active System Manager tb Active System Manager Q4 Getting Started Summary Resource Allocatic E Active System Manager 7 0 Build 21286 VMware B Active System Manager 7 0 Build 21286 VMware s E admin TestvM1 1199 126 admin TestvM1 1199 148 ur ASM 7 0 21 Feb B ASM 7 0 25 Feb OVF Base B 45M 7 05 March OVF Base CD ASM 7 0 M420 Validation ur ASM Final 7 0 B ASM GaleForce DHCP Server bitnami sugarcrm 6 5 0 0 ubuntu 12 04 B Dell DemoServer DellWin sonicwall access B ONS Server EqualLogic Host Integration Tools For VMware ES xP GaleForce GaleForce 6 1 FlexPod 2 0 GaleForce 6 1 FlexPod Centos te GaleForce 6 1 FlexPod TKC 1 1 GaleForce 7 0 Del
39. LT menu c32 MENU TITLE ESXi 5 1 Boot Menu NOHALT 1 PROMPT O0 TIMEOUT 8O LABEL install IMME Sxl dL ole LIL moo e APPEND c esxi5 lsdell boot cig ks http KSPIDEPATH SEE MENU ABE ESXi 5 1 installer LABEL hddboot LOCALBOOT 0x80 MENUTLABEL BOOL from local dus Note The value of KSFILEPATH will be replaced dynamically by the Resource Adapter with the TFTP IP address value defined for the PXE Repo repository assuming the TFTP server and the web server are running on the same machine Ifdynamic replacement is not required place the of the IP address or hostname value of the web server where the ks cfg file is located D 4 Configuring the HTTP Server HTTP services are enabled by default on the appliance D 5 Creating a Kickstart Configuration File To create a kickstart configuration file perform the following steps 1 Create the image directory on the HTTP server base location cd var www html mkdir esxi5 1 dell Note The name of the directory needs to be same as the image directory created on the TFTP server 94 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 2 Create a file named ks_template cfg inside the image directory on the HTTP server The content of the file will as shown below Sample scripted installation file Accept the VMware End User License Agreement vmaccepteula oet Che root password for the DOCUIT and ESXi Sie el rootpw lt PASSWORD gt cl
40. List datastores on the host Datastores are one of the most important components of the VMware based virtualized infrastructure The Active System Manager supports the discovery of datastores managed by the vCenter The various attributes of a datastores are also discovered and populated in the Operation Center view 76 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 91 VMware Datastores 4 vCenter 1 vCenter B Capacity 409600 MB 4 3 192 168 120 125 vCenter B Disk Remote F ddddd DataCenter B Free Space 327166 359 4 F Gale DataCenter E MultipleHostAccess 0 s Cluster 56 Cluster 3 ProvisionedVMList vCenter Hz amp Harrier Cluster 3 Status active amp HarrierDevelopment Dell Cluster B Type NFS gt amp HarrierDevelopment Cluster amp HarrierDevelopment HDD Cluster amp HD test Cluster amp HD testl Cluster B dvSwitch DVSwitch dvSwitch2 DVSwitch dvSwitch3 DVSwitch Supported Operations B dvSwitchTest DVSwitch B dvSwitchTest15 DVSwitch B dvSwitchTest16 DVSwitch B Sumitl DVSwitch Remove Datastore Remove datastore D datastorel 1 DataStore Active dJ DellVolume 101 DataStore Inactive dJ DellVolume 102 DataStore Inactive WD InfraDS DataStore Active dJ iSCSIBootVol 01 DataStore Inactive J laralNatactare 13 NataCtarel Inactive 6 3 Managing EqualLogic Storage Table 7 lists and defines the members p
41. Management 1 w Diagnostics 1 Drivers for OS Deployment 1 File Title Importance Release Date Version Actions Enterprise 402012 Q4 Block Optional 12 4 2012 7 2 0 7 A00 Download File OM 7 2 Version 2 Previous Versions Other Formats Add to My Download List Description 7 On your Trivial File Transfer Protocol TFTP server simply extract the contents of the installation ISO into a new directory using the following commands as the root user mkdir tmp dellISO i geile JhedEESISOIOUA exu s Olei i MODINE o Ieee Vine ice Vivi ea deese s dl Qc SEIT Bs xis ed Dell Cu rowirs cove me D100 cem ASISNMIBES 0 GO iw Jw CJ db ey s eese db oy ei C99 exec e il clei i olgnueol Sy VEXEEIOISO Ou esrb iL eid s D 2 Modifying the ESXi boot cfg Configuration File To confirm that the installation source is not in the root of the TFTP server perform the following steps 1 Remove all slashes from the boot cfg file so that relative paths are used vi s g 2 Adda prefix directive to the boot cfg file to specify the proper subdirectory from the perspective of the TFTP root 7 Cale WOOL OC kG bootstate 0 title Loading ESXi installer kernel tboot b00 kern Wo Sig IS INCI Oe Ok OX Ox esa o e eleg TL esie Citg module P DOO USeSKhODES 4 oU0R ehardeys O00 ucc cn c ques er OE SD cse aie loc SUN Neis cipc oL same eile eG cce eter wg sis lene wl
42. Member 50 Clone 4 4 Volume o DellVolume Volume s0 DellVolume 101 Volume 6 4 Managing Volume Status online offline online online C Resource Information Resource Details Supported Operations PoolAddMember 3 PoolDelete PoolRename Add members storage to a pool This operation deletes a Pool This operation Renames a Pool Table 8 lists and defines the operations provided in the Active System Manager EqualLogic Storage Operation Center view The figure displays an example of EqualLogic group members Table 8 Operation Description VolumeOffline VolumeOnline VolumeResize Figure 93 EqualLogic Group Members Mo Filtering Name Status a LE System Domain a Lx AS800 1 A5800 fg ASMODOT ASM fai EqualLogicGroup DellEqualLoqic 4 hy Gale Group TE abc Pool r3 abcl Pool T default Pool amp Gale rray0l Test Member online amp j Clone 4 4 Volume offline E Dell Valume Volume online i DellVolume 101 Volume online EqualLogic Group Members Offlines a volume present on an EqualLogic Storage Array Onlines a volume present on an EqualLogic Storage Array Resizes a volume present on an EqualLogic Storage Array C Resource Information Resource Details Supported Operations i Volumeoffline ae VolumeOnline Es VolumeResize This Operation sets a Volume State Offline This operations sets a Volume State Online Increase or decrease the
43. OVF import process When booted the Active System Manager VM get its IP address from an existing DHCP server If the DHCP server is not configured then assign the IP address manually to the appliance 2 1 1 Importing OVF from the vSphere Client To import OVF from the vSphere Client perform the following steps 1 On the vSphere Client menu click File gt Deploy OVF Template Figure 1 Deploy OVF Template Menu Option ee WIN T65IRM 71S vSphere Client File Edit View Inventory Adminiskratior Mew Deploy OVF Template Export k Report t Browse YA Marketplace Print Maps Exit 2 Browse the OVF file and select Next Figure 2 Deploy OVF Template Source File Location eo Deploy O F Template Oy x Source Select Ehe source location Source OVE Template Details Name and Location Storage Disk Format Ready to Complete Deploy From a File or URL I Browse Enter a URL to download and install the OVF package From the Internet or specify a location accessible From your computer such as a local hard drive a network share or a CD DVD drive 3 In the Name field enter the VM name and click Next 16 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 3 Name and Location of the Deployed Template JH Deploy O F Template Mame and Location Specify a name and location For the deployed template Source OVE Template Details Mame a
44. Once the VMs are provisioned you can also launch custom applications using custom methods from the Active System Manager Windows client Updating a Baseline VM Image on Logical Templates To update the baseline VM image associated with the VM object in the template perform the following steps 1 Select the VM object in the template and click the Image Files tab Figure 83 Image Files Properties Link 1 m VLAN Auto Template Link L Properties Resource Name Path Repository Version Tag Gi New Virtual Machine New Virtual M VMware Baseli Add Provisioning Inventory Configuration Files Image Files Select the already associated image file and click Remove to remove the existing association 72 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 84 Remove the Association Link 1 7 7 VLAN Auto VirtualMachine_1 Template Link Mame Path Repository Version Tag 3 Click Add and select the gold VM image to be associated with the VM object Figure 85 Select Gold VM Image File Select Image Files i Resource VirtualMachine 1 does not have any Image Files associated inventory check Show All Image Files to list all the files Filterl Path Repositor a FE VMware Baseline iG TestVM TestVM VMware E Show All Image Files 2 E TestVM TestVM VMware Baseli 73 Active System Manager Solution Guide
45. SwitchTest DVSwitch E dvSwitchTest15 DVSwitch dvSwitchTest16 DVSwitch Conne Powere 6 2 2 VMware vSwitches Hosts vSwitches are also discovered and populated in the Operation Center view as part of the vCenter Discovery process P Add DataStore To Cluster Supported Operations Add datastore to an existing cluster List datastores on the cluster Move a host present in dataceneter level to the existing cluster Name B assettag B DataStore B Status B version Value 192 168 120 169 datastorel 1 InfraDS NFSShare connected 1 Supported Operations F Add DataStore To Host Q Apply Host Profile g Assign Host Physical Interface To dvSwitch Uplink Port Group Q Create Profile from Host 2 Disconnect NICS From DVSwitch Uplinks Display Resource Utilization FE List Host Datastore Figure 90 VMware vSwitches vCenter 1 vCenter a 3 192 168 120 125 vCenter b f ddddd DataCenter al F Gale DataCenter Cluster 56 Cluster 4 amp Harrier Cluster a Lg 192 168 120 169 Host vCenter Harrier VM exl Ei vSwitch 6 2 3 VMware Datastores Conner Powere vSwitch Add datastore to an existing host Applying the Host Profile This operation assigns the host physical interface to a dvSwitch uplink port group Creating the Host Profile Disconnect NICS From DVSwitch Uplinks Display the resource utilization of the host
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47. address of the appliance The name of the connection can be any descriptive as shown in the following figure 29 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 21 Adding New Account amp Add New Account Account Active System Manager Server 192 168 120 112 Port 40500 Transport Normal over HTTP 5 Click OK and close the Setting Up Account dialog box 6 Select the account created in earlier step 4 Figure 22 Logging In to the Active System Manager G8 Connect to System Manager Server DELL Active System Manager Accaunt Active System Manager Username Password 7 Provide the username and the password for the appliance The default username and password is admin admin Click OK to launch the Active System Manager application 30 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 3 Active System Manager Setup This section captures the sequence of steps which should be followed within Active System Manager for managing deploying the blade servers in the Active System 800 3 1 User and Group Management You can manage users and groups within the Active System Manager either directly by entering the values for individual users and groups from the Windows Client graphical user interface GUI or by importing users from an external repository such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP Active Directory AD or Network Information Se
48. and access credentials associated with the chassis blade infrastructure elernents storage arrays and switches TOR Make sure all elements have network connectivity and the associated element management interfaces are accessible from the Active System Man Active System Manager Configuration saminda Properties i Select elements to view update details Specify element details Assettag and IP Address are mandatory 4 apium m i Manufacturer Dell a fO me Model Forcel0 54810 88 Dell Chassis pereen j X W Dell EqualLogicStorageArray Assettag tt Dell Forcel0 54810 Y Add Element iE Dell Forcel S4810 B gs Remove ad E vCenter 1 Password 88 vCenterl VMware Host IP Address Discovery Attributes Name Value Role Top SupportedVLANIDs Terminal Server IP Address Terminal Server password rm Terminal Server Port Terminal Server Username 36 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Assettag Required Unique key or name for Dell Force10 Switch which is used to import or identify the Force10 Switch in Active System Manager For example Assettag Dell_Force10 S4810_1 a unique name can be used to track the Force10 Switch in Active System Manager Username Username to manage the Force10 switch Password Password to manage the Force10 switch IP Address Required Management IP address for the Force10 switch This should be IP reachable from the Active System Manager server
49. ce types and click OK Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 3 3 2 Updating Repository Elements for EqualLogic Storage Resource Pools The EqualLogic Storage Resource Pool repository contains the information of the Storage Pools available on EqualLogic Storage Arrays To update these repository elements perform the following steps 1 Open the Software Repositories view in the setup perspective a i Software Repositories as No Filtering ae E X DashBoard i _ _ _ gt G EqualLogic Firmware gt EqualLogic Resource New Element gt ISO Bootable Image Repositories pe gt PXE Bootable Image _ ae gt ToR Switch Configu Expand All ioc gt VMware Baselinelm Collapse All nventory a Import Export perations E Refresh 2 Right click the view and select Repositories The Custom Repository Select Repository Type dialog box displays Figure 43 Selecting Repository Type to Update Custom Repository e Select Repository Type Select repository type to create a new repository or select existing repository to update 0 File Server New File Transfer Protocol Existing Software Configuration Management New Concurrent Versions System Existing Software Repository New Equallogic Resource Pool Repository Existing EqualLogic Storage Resource Pools Finish l
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51. ctronics amp Peripherals Software Enterprise System Management Dell Active System Manager v7 0 11 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 1 4 Overview This section provides a high level product overview of VMware vSphere Dell PowerEdge blade servers Dell PowerEdge M I O Aggregator Dell Force10 4810 switch Dell Force10 S55 switch and Dell EqualLogic Storage VMware vSphere 5 1 Hypervisor vMotion Storage vMotion VMware HA and DRS Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers for Compute Cluster Energy efficient PowerEdge M1000e endosure 12 generation M620 blade server Flex Address CMC and iKVM for endosure management Dell PowerEdge M I O Aggregator Highest Performance in a Blade Switch Highest Density in a Single Blade Switch Stackable for Simplified Management Scalability amp Modular to Fit Your Business Support for converged networking with Data Center Bridging DCB Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers for Management Cluster 12 generation R620 rack servers Concentrated computing powerin 1U form factor Large memory and I O capacity Powerful systems management with Dell iDRAC and Lifecyde Controller Dell Force10 4810 Switches for Converged Network High density 48 port 10 GbE switch with four 40 GbE uplinks Ultra low latency non blocking cut through switch forline rate L2 and L3 performance Integrated network automation and virtualization tools via the Op
52. dating VLAN ID Range and Parameter E VM LP E P VLANCount Hide nventory R seiniin LLL U C ZLCLL L ROKLU4E6CLCOLLLCLUE a VLANId 100 104 106 Hide Configuration Files Save the template Provide input to the orchestration using one of two methods 68 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 77 Orchestration Input Orchestration View ae Add Step M3 Remove Step JL Insert Step gel Remove Le Add Script Operation Execute Abort On Error Descriptio 4 Step 1 Orchestration Input W z Dell Servers Orchestration Input Orchestrat a Double click the Configure ESXi Server using PXE Boot orchestration to open it b Double click the Orchestration Input method to provide other inputs to orchestration Figure 78 Orchestration Input Specify Input Values Specify Input Values for Orchestration Input Specify the input values for the operation indicates the value is required Check possible values Optional Parameters Possible Values StorageGroupIP 192 168 50 11 ESXServerLicenseKey vCenterlPAddress 192 168 120 125 vCenterClusterName HarrierCluster vCenterDatacenter Gale GoldDatastoreVolum GoldVolume DatastoreVolumeSize 100g PodName GalePod BootProtocol static vCenterFolderName AS800 iInstallationDiskType SD Data Type Unit Primary Source Software Repositories z j Secondary Source ISO Bootable Images z
53. default configuration is dhcp If the value of the IP address subnet mask and name server is provided in the inventory then the static IP address configuration will be applied on the server e The value of lt FIRSTBOOT gt will be replaced by the network configuration template file available inside the Resource Adapter package The configuration is based on the specifications for the Active System 800VMware Deployment document e he lt FIRSTBOOT gt configuration also includes o iSCSI initiator configuration 98 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 o ESXi license Key The value is added if the license key information is available in the resource adapter configuration file Name of the Local datastore 3 Copy the ks cfg file to the HTTP Server base location meone wee name Ine essa sci ell Lsclieor New Cow fone demic JE S01 Boxe t Inages eiexers o IL olelL SEO NEW SS c CES Juste min Meni exei s acc SObCe rp New erste ene If the existing image directory is replaced skip the above commands and execute the following sels wee wes ea esse T clell 3 S860 co Homey de Brac ISORO L Tnagee eeeu5 sl cell IS0E800 159 eL yee f er Mian esso s 1 eel 96 8001 5S Gig 4 Update the file permission on the newly added image chown R delladmin delladmin home delladmin ISOBootImages chmod R w home delladmin ISOBootImages E 4 Adding the New Image to the Software
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55. earpart first disk lt TR UD ISIC overwiitevmisS m install om these kirse local cisk available on machine Lastall FLESTOLSk S lt FILIRSTDISK gt O0VECwELTCEvVMES Set the network to DHCP on the first network adapater use the specified hostname and do not create a portgroup for the VMs lt NETWORKCONTENT gt P reboots the Nost atten the Sseripted ianstallarion 1s Compilered reboot firstboot interpreter busybox lt FIRSTBOOTDATA gt Notes e The value of lt PASSWORD gt will be replaced with the password string defined in the Resource Adapter configuration file The default value is iforgot e The value of lt FIRSTDISK gt Will be replaced by local usb depending on the boot sequence defined in the deployment template e The value of lt NETWORKCONTENT gt will be replaced for the DHCP or static IP address configuration The default configuration is dhcp If the value of the IP address subnet mask and name server is provided in the inventory then the static IP address configuration will be applied on the server e The value of lt FIRSTBOOT gt will be replaced by the network configuration template file available inside the Resource Adapter package The configuration is based on the specifications for the Active System 800VMware Deployment document e The lt FIRSTBOOT gt configuration also includes o iSCSI initiator configuration o ESXi license Key The value is added if the license key information i
56. en Automation Framework Support for converged networking with Data Center Bridging DCB Force10 S55 Switch for Management High density 48 port 1 10 GbE scalable switch Low latency non blocking switch for line rate L2 and L3 performance Integrated network automation and virtualization tools via the Open Automation Framework Dell EqualLogic Storage 1 GbE iSCSI SAN arrays with SFP and 10GBase T support Thin Provisioning and Storage Tiering Support for converged networking with Data Center Bridging DCB Integration with VMware Integrated Management Dell Active System Manager VMware vCenter Server Dell Management plug in for VMware vCenter Dell OpenManage Essentials Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager VSM for VMware Dell EqualLogic SAN HeadQuarters HQ Dell Repository Manager Cloud Enablement VMware vCloud Connector for Dell vCloud connectivity 12 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Table 1 lists the Active System Manager solution for the Active System 800 supported components Table 1 Active System 800 Supported Components Component VMware vSphere 5 1 Hypervisor Converged Fabric Switch Storage Management Infrastructure Management components hosted in the management infrastructure Up to 2x Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis with up to 32x Dell PowerEdge M620 Blade Servers and embedded VMware vSphere 5 1 2xDell Force10 S4810 2x
57. er Level Supported Operations E Resource Center C Resource Information Resource Details Name Status 4 L System Domain E Properties ro Sessions gt Templates Monitoring 4 x AS800_1 AS800 Gq ASM0001 ASM Supported Operations 4 9 EqualLogicGroup DellEqualLogic 4 yj GaleDemo Group E ConfigureRAIDPolicy Configures RAID type to one of the following raid5 raid6 raid10 4 5 default Pool amp SAN Bottom Member offline SAN Top Member online i GaleDemoPool Pool test Pool ify testpooll Pool UpgradeFirmware Upgrade Downgrade a firmware version on a storage 79 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Table 10 Storage Member Level Supported Operations Operation Description ConfigureRAIDPolicy Configures the required redundant array of independent disks RAID level on an EqualLogic Storage Array UpgradeFirmware Upgrades the firmware image on an EqualLogic Storage Array 7 Dashboard Reports 7 1 Resource Allocation by Sessions Report Input Parameter raidType raid6 raid10 raid50 imageName I mage from repository delayInMinutesAfterRestart Introduce wait once the firmware is installed and the member storage device is restarted the RA connects the storage after this defined delay in minutes after the restart parameter This report provides resource allocation data for sessions which are in a Runni
58. erver and XenMotion are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems Inc in the United States and or other countries VMware Virtual SMP vMotion vCenter and vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware Inc in the United States or other countries IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation February 2013 Rev 1 0 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Contents 1 Introduction to the Active System 800 Solution asusnonssocsavenesusonssetepoenetusioonesetesbesetuseonenenent 10 T1 AUCE C uM MA MEME EI DM ME EE EG 11 EE olo cp od 11 E3 Tech ncabDocunmentatioltssccsaxeces uet tan an ELI M Ru M Ad M I UI RE M UE M I UI RE NM dn MO dU NE 11 kA OM adn ccm 12 1 5 Active System 800 Supported Configurations xs quss cs eo dux ee puta da E Rv Cox Ee pu XE Een eere ux 14 1 6 Deployment ODElOlScoaed eoa ue vids ae ea rto ou EET eR diio Dev late deed iio decent deed beh eed 14 la Deployment Pfrerequisite5srsrspdeoo sena eo m PAPE rSf E hER RE EY PEEUTE REM P IRVAFIEUD RIF PS RPSESA SES 15 2 Active System Manager DeploymeNt assisia qe EM ERST OBAT uscd tee REV RU De SINE QVE ERR EC PRE RAAT 16 2 1 DEDIG VIN GOVE errereen rten 16 2 1 1 Importing OVF from the vSphere Client sessesessecesescecesescsorecsecsesescosoreeeceseecsoeo 16 2 2 Biete al no PT Tu 18 Z5 Importing the VHD Using Hyper V Manager
59. esescceesscessccesescceesscesecs 100 G 1 Dlidld 0 ccc geen ote eee ens es ea eee seen eee es eee 100 G 2 ALEP ONE eee E E E E EE E n 100 G 3 Pd aai ee eT ee 100 G 4 Configuring PXE Setup with Embedded DHCP Server ccce ener 101 G 4 1 Configuring the DHCP Server ouicsececdcosacacesasecocdcoescecssenesevscowsdecssesasessacseaeesctese 101 G 4 2 confieurine the TFTP Servel rserseisstisrcisscricci uiie ene a DU IDEs 101 G 5 Configuring the PXE Setup with the Existing DHCP Server sssseseseseesesesoeseseesesesceees 102 H Appendix TF AOS E HHP 102 Tables Table 1 A5800 Supported COnfiSurations 0 lt ssc cevcscrccescesencocasenceseevencpessendveceesencecacdaseerers 14 Tele Deployment ODUIONS ccs scsacencgesecsoteseodcacse scat MINE ETE EPUM NU E PLE MEDIUM PU MEME 14 Table 3 Deployment Prerequisites iccoseeasexoxerectute vo dXax eren uEep R ECRE GI n Ree RA PORPQ A Er re TPI EOS 15 Table 4 Key Access Credentials ssesesescesesseceseececescecesesceceseecesesceceseececeececeeescecseeeo 17 Table 5 Orchestration Input Parameters eere dr e reta hh nn a ar En ge rar n En n rone 68 Table 6 EqualLogic Group Members ceesseeeeeeeeee seen ehh hehehe eeseeteseeoeen 76 Table 7 EqualLogic Group Members ecsvsckocetuususeehamu nuca twEvam UTE ERFeRE Eu ES UnVS PISA QUE VIF SE PEU 77 Table 8 Storage Group Level Supported Operations
60. ges Location Pattern File Format Folder Format Repository Properties Name Value Required Hast 192 168 122 184 e Port i Communic Iv E rz Element Type Image File Note Associated domain will be used to save the repository elements in Save As operation 5 Update the Host attribute value with the IP address of the Active System Manager appliance 6 The Username and Password are configured with default appliance username and password These needs to be updated if the default username password is updated 7 Click Next to display the list of repository files 8 Click Finish Note If a new resource pool is added and information needs to be updated skip this step 9 Click Discover to initiate the discovery of the repository files This step is required only ifa new ISO image is added to the appliance This will list the discovered element in the repository 54 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 57 List of Repository Files Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements Name Type E lt esxi5 1_dell ISOBoot Image File esxi5 1_dell ISOBoot m 10 Right click the selected discovered elements and update the Type to Image File and click Finish Figure 58 Updating Discovered Elements Type to Image File Repository Elements D
61. hassis is configured and has the management IP address and login credentials assigned e Server iDRAC and IOA is configured and has the management IP address and login credentials assigned using CMC Management interface The username root and password for CMC IOA and iDRAC must be identical For the Active System 800 chassis blade server and IO aggregators Force10 4810 switches Top of e The management IP address is configured for the ToR Rack ToR switches e he A800 base configuration is applied on both switches e VLANs are created on the switches per the Active System 800 deployment specification e he virtual machine VM traffic VLANs will be created dynamically by Active System Manager e he group IP and management IP are configured for Storage Array e All storage array members are added to the group EqualLogic Storage Array e VCenter 5 1 is configured and accessible via the management and hypervisor management network e Appropriate licenses are deployed on the vCenter VMware vCenter 5 1 PXE Setup for server deployment Details for deploying PXE Server is listed in section Appendix G PXE Setup Requirements This setup is needed for PXE boot of the servers only 15 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 2 Active System Manager Deployment 2 1 Deploying OVF The Active System Manager Open Virtualization Format OVF can be imported on to an ESXi host using the VMware
62. ical 2 Physical 3 Physical 4 Physical 5 Logical Table 12 Build of Material Templates Description Workflows Cluster VMware ESXi 5 1 Configure ESXi Servers using ISO Boot Hypervisor deployment ISO boot Cleanup Orchestration and VMFS Datastore Provision Cluster VMware ESXi 5 1 Configure ESXi servers using PXE Boot Hypervisor deployment PXE boot Cleanup Orchestration and VMFS Datastore Provision Standalone VMware ESXi 5 1 Configure ESXi servers using PXE Boot Hypervisor deployment PXE boot Cleanup Orchestration and VMFS Datastore Provision Standalone VMware ESXi 5 1 Configure ESXi servers using ISO Boot Hypervisor deployment ISO boot Cleanup Orchestration and VMFS Datastore Provision Logical template with one VM Built in orchestration connected to a VLAN 89 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 ID Description 6 Logical Logical template with two VMs connected to a VLAN Workflows Built in orchestration C Appendix C Firmware and Software Base Lineup Table 13 displays a list of firmware and software base lineups grouped by Hypervisor blades Table 13 Resource BIOS CPLD iDRAC7 Enterprise LCC Life Cycle Controller 2 Network Controller Broadcom FW EqualLogic MEM VMware ESXi Microsoft Hyper V Firmware and Software Base Lineup Hypervisor Blades Active System Manager 7 0 1 6 0 1 0 5 1 35 35 1 1 1 18 7 4 8 1 1 1 5 1 799733
63. iguration Element Properties Select elements to view update details Specify element details Assettag and IP Address are mandatory 4 C System l v Add System Manufacturer Dell 4 EE AS800 1 x Model EqualLogic PS6110 s8 Dell Chassis Add vCenter A 4 Dell EqualLogic PS6110 Assettag Dell Forcel0 S4810 v Add Element sername s Dell Forcel0 S4810 2 OA Password IP Address Discovery Attributes Name 3 Value o Assettag Required Unique key or name for the EqualLogic Storage Array which is used to import or identify an EqualLogic Storage Array in the Active System Manager For example Assettag Dell EquallLogic PS6100 1 a unique name can be used to track the EqualLogic array in Active System Manager o Username Group username to access and manage the EqualLogic Storage Array o Password Group password to access and manage the EqualLogic Storage Array o IP Address Required Group Management IP address for the EqualLogic Storage Array Group Management IP should be reachable via ping to test from the ASM server Group IP of the EqualLogic Array should be IP reachable from the Active System Manager server 34 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 The following figure displays an example of how to edit to the etc hosts file and how it should be saved Save file gt press Esc gt type wq gt press Enter Figure 29 Editing and Saving the etc hosts File Do not re
64. inux gtk x86_7 0 0_xyzt zip file Unzip the file into a specific folder destination on your hard drive Create the Active System Manager folder and move the file contents to this location pu s 29 In the console execute the Active System Manager file 2 6 4 Accessing Active System Manager Using the Windows Client Software To access the Active System Manager software using the Windows Client software perform the following steps 1 Launch the client software application Figure 18 Launching the Active System Manager Client Software Active System Manager Release 7 0 Copyright 2013 Dell Inc All Righs Reserved This program is protected by copyright law and international treaties Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program or any portion of it may result in severe civil and criminal penalties and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law 2 Click Setup to create the account setup 28 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 19 Connecting to the Active System Manager Server 2 Connect to Active System Manager Server DELL Active System Manager Account Username Password 3 On the Setting Up Accounts dialog box click Add Name the account as the connection to the Active System Manager appliance Figure 20 Setting Up Accounts T Setting up Accounts List of Accounts 4 Provide the name of the connection and IP
65. is DISCOV SEY cusseckiieoc ue ti ace ie DtisieUm emo EA es boris uis ero P SM ere trertd t i abe o i Tal e i QU Reda dua 32 3 3 Software Repositories Available in the Active System Manager Virtual Appliance 40 3 3 1 Updating Repository Elements for Firmware Images on EqualLogic Firmware Repo 41 3 3 2 Updating Repository Elements for EqualLogic Storage Resource Pools 46 3 3 3 Updating Repository Elements for PXE Bootable Imasges eeeeeeren nnn 49 3 3 4 Updating Repository Elements for ISO Bootable Images eee nnne 52 3 3 5 Updating Repository Elements for VMware Baseline Images cceecceeeccceececeeeccees 59 iii Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 4 Physical Templates and OrchestEAablOlTnsseet uev ene suet bee epo wea HESS CE ERN HEREIN Cea RR ES 62 4 1 Multiple Blade Server Tor Cluster Provisioning oiii vein Ep Cuts bu vo uen eo EE Due Ov vo tance Dur eS 62 4 2 Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning ccceeccccecccceccceesceceeecs 64 4 3 Associated Orchestrations with Cluster and Standalone Host Templates 65 4 4 Ada tional Storage for Cluster OF FOSE sIeasaaxa oen OIo Ia aad eben tus Hover era peat uS era Dex EPdaS 66 4 5 Updating Physical Templates 12 0 0 beu T btE ees Ubod dte eR vien boe a ova Re RREe bas a Eee eg bon baud ase 67 5 Workload Provisioning Using L
66. iscovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements Mame Path xp esxi5 l dell ISOBoot Set Type Element Set as Base Image File Delete conflicting Configuration File 92 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 59 Repository Properties Update Trivial File Transfer Protocol Specify the Trivial File Transfer Protocol provisioning properties Press Next to get the details of the repository Name ToR Switch Configurations and Images Description ToR Switch Coi nfigurations and Images Location Pattern File Format Folder Format Repository Properties Mame Value Required Host 192 168 120 128 iv Port Iv Communic Iv E ra Additional Properties Domain Association v Mame Element Type O System Image File Note Associated domain will be used to save the repository elements in Save As operation 11 Update the Host attribute with the IP address of the VM appliance 12 Click Next to display the list of repository files 13 Click Finish Note Ifa new resource pool is added and information needs to be updated skip this step 56 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 60 Discovering New Elements Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements F
67. itories Expand All Collapse All Import Export Refresh 2 Right click the view and select Repositories The Custom Repository Select Repository Type dialog box displays Figure 65 Selecting VMware Baseline Images Repository Software Repository 2 New Dell ASM Template 3 Click the Software Repository Existing radio buttons 4 Using the drop down menu select VMware Baseline Images and click Next The Repository Properties dialog box displays 59 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 66 Repository Properties Update VMWare vCenter Inventory Specify the VMWare vCenter Inventory provisioning properties Press Next to get the details of the repository Name VMware Baseline Images Description VMware Baseline Images Location Pattern File Format Folder Format Variables Repository Properties Name Value Host 192 168 120 125 Username administrator KK Password Additional Properties Name Value Domain Association v Name Element Type E System Image File Note Associated domain will be used to save the repository elements in Save As operation 5 Update the VMware vCenter host IP address username and password 6 Click Next to display the list of repository files 7 Click Discover to initiate the discovery of the repository files The list of VMs managed by the vCente
68. ive System Configuration Select elements to view update details 4 amp System EJ AS800 1 4 zl vCenter 1 58 vCenter Harrier VMware Host 6 2 1 Clusters and Hosts v Add System Add vCenter v Add Element Remove Use this UI to discover one or more Dell Active Systems with associated chassis servers IO modules storage arrays and switches TOR Before you begin it is recommended to Gather IP addresses and access credentials associated with the chassis blade infrastructure elements storage arrays and switch TOR Make sure all system elements have network connectivity and the associated element management interfaces are accessible from the ASM GaleForce system Refer the ASM GaleForce Solution Guide for more details Element Properties Specify element details Assettag and IP Address are mandatory Manufacturer VMware Model Host Assettag vCenter Harrier Username Administrator Password 999990999 IP Address 192 168 122 208 Discovery Attributes Name Value Clusters and hosts along with their attributes are discovered and populated in the Active System Manager Operation Center view This view enables methods to be executed on clusters and hosts for on demand provisioning as required 75 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 88 Clusters and Hosts Example 1 Reso
69. l The vCenter folder where the ESXi hosts needs to be provisioned during the orchestration SD the default HDD If the installation must be performed on the server HDD then value needs to be updated Note The BIOS boot order needs to be updated manually Figure 9 vCenter 1 System Properties ASM GaleForce Active System Configuration Select elements to view update details E P Add System m yper ES Add vCenter a2 172 16 100 187 Microsoft Vi z vCenter 1 5ystem properties Name is mandatory and should be unique Username Password so QA VMware Host w Add Element 70 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 5 Workload Provisioning Using Logical Templates 5 1 Two VMs with a VLAN The Two virtual machine with a VLAN Logical template can be used to create VM workloads by scheduling a logical template over existing physical resources sessions to consume the compute and storage resources of specific physical components ra N fi X rA din affic Li Traffic Link_2 ER q Traffic Link_1 em amic Link m x VLAN Auto A RHEL 2 Template Link When scheduled this template performs the following sequence of operations e Clones and powers on two VMware VMs based on the Gold VM Image associated in the template e Creates port groups corresponding to VLAN component on vSwitch as can also be seen in the annotation
70. l Development GaleForce 6 1 0_Centos asm galeforce GoldImage XP vm B corso EE By Dep 3 y 9 5 y 9 9 e e G D o N Other Harrier CentOs6 3 B Harrier GaleForceASMI 0 NetApp DoNotDelete Nexus 1000 4 2 1 5V1 4a RHEL_Gold SkyHawk 1 0 SugarCRM JumpBox Cancel SugarCRM MySOL SugarCRM MySOL Dynamic SugarCRM Web p Username root PEPEPEPE 2 Log in as the root user Root user credentials are given Key Access Credentials 3 Navigate to System gt Preferences gt Network Connections to launch the Network Connections wizard Figure 14 Network Connections Wizard Computer root s Home Network Connections Wired E Wireless Mobile Broadband VPN E DSL i Trash Name Last Used Add Edit Auto eth2 Auto eth1 Delete System eth 22 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 4 Select the network interface card NIC appliance on which IP address should be configured manually and click Edit 5 When the Editing dialog box displays see figure below update the IP address select the IPv4 settings click the Method drop down list and select Manual Figure 15 Editing Editing Auto eth Connection name Auto ethO Connect automatically i T o p l Wired 802 1x Security IPv4 Settings IPv6 Settings
71. l Storage 3 5 EPA Manager VSM 91 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Resource Dell OpenManage Plug in for vCenter Dell SAN HQ VMware vCloud Connector Dell OpenManage Essentials Dell OpenManage Repository Manager Active System Manager 7 0 1 6 0 33 2 5 EPA 1 5 1 1 1 4 113 D Appendix D Adding New ESXi PXE Images This appendix describes the following topics related to adding new ESXi images Preparing the VMware ESXi 5 x Installation Media Modifying the ESXi boot cfg Configuration File Configuring the HTTP ServerCreating a Kickstart Configuration File D 1 Preparing the VMware ESXi 5 x Installation Media To prepare the VMware ESXi 5 x installation media perform the following steps 1 2 noa y 6 Log in to www dell com Open the support and driver page http www dell com support drivers us en 04 ProductSelector Select rquery fkey e Drivers_PS Select Server gt Storage amp Networking Select PowerEdge Select PowerEdge M620 Select VMware ESXi 5 1 The image will be listed in the Drivers for OS Deployment section 92 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 107 Downloading the ISO Image v Refine your results 42 files rudibus Operating System Category Release Date Importance VMWare ESXi 5 1 e all I au I au M Expand All Categories Collapse All Categories w BIOS 1 w Chassis System
72. le Images Location Pattern File Format Folder Format Repository Properties Value Host 192 168 122 101 Port Communic Additional Properties Name lt Value Domain Association v Name s Element Type E System Image File Note Associated domain will be used to save the repository elements in Save As operation 50 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 5 Update the Host attribute value with the IP address of the Active System Manager appliance 6 The Username and Password are configured with default appliance username and password These needs to be updated Ifthe default username password is updated 7 Click Next to display the list of repository files 8 Click Finish Note Ifa new resource pool is added and information needs to be updated skip this step Figure 51 Discovering New Elements 8 Software Repository ex JE m Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements EY l 0 d T x A Name Path Type Ba C configurationFiles Element W T Dell Element iv 4 EqualLogiclmage Element W C lt b esxi5 1_dell Image File W J esxi5 1_dell_192 168 120 113 Element v esxi5 1_dell_192 168 120 190 Element iv p esxi51 dell ISOBOOT Element iv esxib 1 dell ISOBOOT 192 168 120 190 Element iv pxelinux cfg E
73. lement iv u m p Select All Deselect All Associate Bulk Associat Di iat D Back Next Finish Cancel 9 Click Discover to initiate the discovery of the repository files This step is required only if a new image is added to the repository This will list the discovered element in the repository 21 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 52 List of Repository Files A p am Name Path Type Base Association OEP configurationFiles Eemet Y E Dell Element v 4 EqualLogiclImage Element lt esxi5 1_dell Image File ra Dell ASM X pxelinux cfg Element v 10 Right click the selected discovered elements and update the Type to Image File and click Finish Figure 53 Updating Discovered Elements Type to Image File A Ue gs a Name Path Type Base Association E lt b configurationFiles Element z Element z Element 7 pxelinux Image File Delete conflicting Configuration File 3 3 4 Updating Repository Elements for ISO Bootable Images To update these repository elements perform the following steps 1 Open the Software Repositories view in the Setup perspective Figure 54 Software Repositories View No Filtering o o 15k als a DashBoard E EqualLogic Firmware b gt EqualLogic Resource New Element
74. location by groups and works for CPU and memory allocation The figure displays an example of a Resource Allocation by Groups report Figure 98 Resource Allocation by Groups Report Resource Allocation By Group CPU Allocation E f group3 11 group3 CPU share 10 5 group 29 group2 61 a m 7 4 Top Ten Resource Allocation Report This report includes three sub options for different eroupings e By Host Lists top ten hosts which are currently in use and have allocated maximum CPU and memory attributes By User Displays the list of top 10 users who are currently consuming the maximum number of CPUs and memory e By Group Similar to By User but consolidated at the group level The figure displays an example of a Top Ten Resource Allocation report 82 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 7 5 Figure 99 Top Ten Resource Allocation Report Top Ten Resource Allocation EB cru H 15 amp 10 i X EN o a x A x Qo aw e O sO S E xo eM v 0 S A e i S C AQ C T Top Ten Resource Utilization Report This report is similar to the Top Ten Resource Allocation report however this report provides utilization data as opposed to allocation The required data is made available using a monitoring method that continuously keeps polling the device VM or cluster for cur
75. lowing steps 97 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 1 Create the image directory on the HTTP server base location 5 Cel Inkome clellachiuiiny LoOBootlmacges eexiS i cell 1s0Bec New Note The name of the directory needs to be same as the image directory created on the TFTP server 2 Create a file named ks cfg inside the image directory The content of the file will as shown below Sample scripted installation file Accept the VMware End User License Agreement vmaccepteula t Set the root ores eoe for the DCU and ESXi Shell rootpw lt PASSWORD gt clearpart firsidisk lt FIRSTDISK oOvcerwri a Villines Install on the first local disk available on machine iia Site LIL SSeS ech k IRS SI 0verwritevmiEsS P Set the network to DACP on the first network adapter Use Ene Soecified hostname and do not create a portgroup for the VMs lt NETWORKCONTENT gt t reboots Ene Nest alter Lhe Seripred installation lo comp leved reboot firstboot interpreter busybox lt FIRSTBOOTDATA gt Notes e The value of lt PASSWORD gt will be replaced with the password string defined in the Resource Adapter configuration file The default value is iforgot e The value of lt FIRSTDISK gt will be replaced by local usb depending on the boot sequence defined in the deployment template e The value of lt NETWORKCONTENT gt will be replaced for the DHCP or static IP address configuration The
76. ly on a client machine and importing it back as needed Q5 What is the difference between synchronize and discovery A5 TBD Q6 SSI properties will be overwritten when upgrading the RA A6 Yes upgrading the RA will override the ssi properties file As best practice before upgrading the RA backup RA directory by following the steps given below e Login the Active System Manager server as delladmin user e cd SHOME asm galeforce gf common integrations e cp r manufacturer model lt manufacturer gt lt model gt _ lt CurrentDate gt Q7 How Gold Volumes on EqualLogic storage array are secured A7 Gold volume is secured by creating the access rights for the chap users Steps to create the Gold Volume 1 Create a volume of appropriate size on EqualLogic Storage array 2 Associate the chap account and associate it with the newly created volume 3 Connect to the management host and configure the newly created datastore 104 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Q8 What about images and firmwares released after this release of Active System Manager 7 0 A8 Images and firmware versions that are released after Active System Manager 7 0 should work but this should be validated with the solution Q9 What is base level configuration and what is consists of for Dell Force10 switches A9 Base level configuration is the minimal set of configuration running on the switches so as to bring them to an
77. me ServerHostname Hostname to be assigned to the ESXi server ServerDomainName Domain name to be assigned to the ESXi server ServerNameServer Name server to be assigned to the ESXi server ServerGateway Gateway for the ESX server ServerNetmask Netmask for the ESX server ServerlPAddress IP address that must be assigned to the ESX server If the hypervisor must retrieve an IP address from the DHCP server leave this parameter blank ServerPassword Server password to be assigned during unattended installation 100 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 F 2 VLAN for IOA Configuration Traffic Type VLAN Management vMotion VM Workload s iSCSI Management Traffic VMware Workloads 1 Administrator needs to create a volume on EqualLogic storage array manually 2 This volume needs to contain the base line VMs that will be used for creating the VM workloads Note The base line VMs needs to have VMware Tools installed G Appendix G PXE Setup Requirements Considerations before creating the DHCP Server e The PXE Network must be separate from the Management Network e Active System Manager must have a network interface with same subnet as the TFTP Server Appliance uses ARP entries for identifying the IP Address assigned to the ESXi Servers by the DHCP Server e he Active System Manager VM appliance has pre defined templates for installing ESXi 5 1 on the Dell blade servers using PX
78. ment j server oc com Dell BladeServer GDRBQV1 1 Manage ipment g serer oc com BladeServer GZPBQVI 1 Manage ipment j server oc com Dell BladeServer HOMDTV1 1 Manage ipment ISCSIVNICIPAddresses Space separated list of IP addresses to be assigned to iSCSI virtual network interface cards vNICs For example for updating information for vmnic6 vmnic7 using the Update Port Group with iSCSI VLAN operation the value can be in the 192 168 120 XX 192 168 120 YY format as an example and will depend on the environment subnet range The IP Addresses needs to be separated by a space iSCSIChapUsername iSCSI Chap username used to access volume of EqualLogic Storage Array iSCSIChapSecret iSCSI Chap secret corresponding to iSCSI Chap username ServerHostname Hostname to be assigned to the ESXi server ServerDomainName Domain name to be assigned to the ESXi server ServerNameServer Name server to be assigned to the ESXi server If there are e multiple name servers a comma separated valued should be provided 39 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 ServerGateway Gateway for the ESX server ServerNetmask Netmask for the management NIC of ESX server ServerIPAddress IP address that must be assigned to management NIC of the ESX server Ifthe hypervisor must retrieve an IP address from the DHCP server leave this parameter blank ServerPassword Server root
79. mily which includes fully pre integrated converged infrastructure solutions As one of the pre integrated solutions offered the Dell Active System 800 is a scalable blade server and storage infrastructure designed to support private cloud infrastructures Able to add compute and storage capacity as needed in a non disruptive manner the Active System 800 offers many different configuration options for varying business conditions and sizes for a highly utilized IT infrastructure Quick and Easy Provisioning The Dell Active System 800 allows for more rapid application deployments through minimized design test procurement integration and configuration phases One key feature of the Active System 800 is the Active System Manager which offers streamlined automated processes as well as a quick response to dynamic business needs through template based modular infrastructure provisioning This allows IT infrastructures to achieve higher efficiencies and more accurate delivery of IT services A single IT generalist can manage most common tasks via the streamlined and automated processes delivered through the Active System Manager Automated and Efficient The Dell Active System 800 enables your data center to reach its maximum potential and reduces the complexity and amount of time spent manually managing storage functions through automation for a more efficient and simplified management This allows the Dell Active System 800 to support the efficie
80. move the following line or various programs that require network functionality will fail 127 0 0 1 azm dqaletforce localhost localdomain localhost eh localhost6 localdomain6 localhoste Note Ifthere are multiple storage groups there should be an entry for each of the Storage Group in the Discovery Configuration Setup view For adding a new element in an existing Active System 800 unit click Add Element select Dell EqualLogicStorageArray and provide required details to initiate discovery Figure 30 Adding the Dell EqualLogicStorageArray Element Active System Manager Configuration ices Propi Select elements to view update details specify elemei System Add System Manufacturer El AS800 1 es i an Model 88 Dell Chassis METAM W Dell EqualLogic P56110 2 5 Dell Forcel0 54810 2 5 Dell Forcel0 54810 Assettag I Iizernam e D ell Chassis Dell EqualLogic PS6110 Dell Farcel0 54810 ee a a TF il 5 For Dell Force10 Switch ToR discovery provide the following element properties and discovery attributes 35 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 31 Dell Force10 Element Properties and Discovery Attributes Discovery Configuration Setup Use this UI te discover one or more Dell Active Systems with associated servers storage arrays and switches TOR Before you proceed it is recomme Gather IP addresses
81. n the Setup perspective Figure 48 Software Repositories View Mo Filtering LP Fa Name b EqualLogic Firmware b amp EqualLogic Resource New Elernent b G ISO Bootable Image 3 Repositories t 2 PAE Bootable Image P Ge ToR Switch Configu lala karn bt E VMware Baseline Im Collapse All nwentory a Import Export Operations 2 Right click the view and select Repositories The Custom Repository Select Repository Type dialog box displays 49 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 49 Selecting Repository Type to Update G Custom Repository B Eja Select Repository Type Select repository type to create a new repository or select existing repository to update J 1 0 A File Server New File Transfer Protocol 9 Existing Software Configuration Management New Concurrent Versions System 9 Existing 9 Software Repository New Dell ASM Template 3 Click the Software Repository Existing radio buttons 4 Using the drop down menu select PXE Bootable Images and click Next The Update Trivial File Transfer Protocol for PXE Boot dialog box displays Figure 50 Update TFTP for PXE Boot Update Trivial File Transfer Protocol for PXE Boot Specify the Trivial File Transfer Protocol for PXE Boot provisioning properties Press Next to get the details of the repository Name PXE Bootable Images Description PXE Bootab
82. n view Window Help e Alm 33 Hyper v Manager Ba WIK 4 FFG9E4 ok Virtual Machines CPU Usage Actye System M anager 0 Build 21266_Microsott Select the VM and click Start to power on the VM Figure 10 Starting the VM Virtual Machines Actve Systen M anager 7 Build 21285 Microsoft Connect Settings Stare Snapshot Export Rename Delete 4 Help 20 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 6 Select the network The VM should be mapped to the Hypervisor Management Network All the networks for example OOB Hypervisor Management vMotion iSCSI and VM workloads are expected to be accessible from the appliance Figure 11 Selecting the Network Ha Settings for Acktive System Manager 7 0 Build 21786 Microsoft Active System Manager 7 0 Bulld 21286_h a amp Hardware 4 Network Adapter HO Add Hardware Ml BIOS Specify Ehe configuration of the network adapter or remove the network adapter Boot from CD Network Bun memory Local Area Connection Virtual Network 4096 ME MAC Address A Processor l 4 Virtual processors Dynamic E E IDE Controller 0 aie E Hard Drive Active System Manager 7 B oo is 50 ZEE e o E IDE Controller 1 4 M Bus Network Adapter Local Area Connection irtua Enable spoofing of MAC addresses Enable virtual LAM identification com 1 Mone VEA TD k COM 2 The V
83. nce ESXi 5 1 installation support on blade servers 1 6 Deployment Options The Active System Manager solution for Active System 800 is packaged as a virtual appliance and is made available for VMware vCenter 5 1 and the Windows Server 2012 System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM see Table 3 e Open Virtualization Format OVF for VMware The disk format is VMware virtual machine disk VMDK e Hyper V virtualization environment The disk format is virtual hard disk VHD for Hyper V Table 3 Deployment Options Virtual Appliance Filenames Platform Dell ActiveSystemManager 7 0 0 xyztp_VMware zip VMware vCenter 5 1 Dell ActiveSystemManager 7 0 0 xyztp_Microsoft zip Microsoft Server 2012 with Hyper V 14 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 1 7 Deployment Prerequisites Before using the Active System Manager solution for end to end provisioning of Active System 800 components ensure that the prerequisites listed in Table 4 are in place Table 4 Deployment Prerequisites Specification Prerequisite Active System 800 units connected per the Active System 800 Reference Architecture and Design Guidelines Management server is configured per the Active System 800 Reference Architecture and Design Guidelines Firmware and BIOS Requirements All equipment must be configured with firmware versions as listed in section Appendix C Firmware and Software Base Lineup e CMC for M1000e c
84. nd Location Storage Disk Format Hetwork Mapping Resa Fa Comnlere The name can contain up to 80 characters and iE mus Inventory Location 4 Select the appropriate datastore name where the VM must be hosted 5 Select the disk format Thin provisioning is supported and recommended 6 Select the network name The VM must be mapped to the Hypervisor Management Network All networks for example OOB Hypervisor Management vMotion iSCSI and VM workloads are expected to be accessible from the appliance Figure 4 Mapping the Networks Used in the OVF Template Map the networks used in this QvF template to networks in your inventory Source Wekworks Destination Wekworks YM Network YM Network 7 Table 5 lists the necessary key access credentials to use Table 5 Key Access Credentials VM Access Credentials Username Password Active System Manager server installation login delladmin delladmin Active System Manager server root root Dell 123 Active System Manager application admin admin 17 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 2 2 Deploying VHD The Active System Manager Open Virtualization Format VHD can be imported on to a Hyper V host using the Hyper V Manager gt Import Virtual Machine option When booted the Active System Manager VM gets its IP address from an existing DHCP server If a DHCP server is not configured manually assign the IP address to the appliance 2 2 1 Importing
85. ng state This report displays CPU and memory allocations grouped by Active System Manager sessions and can be used to view the CPU and memory allocation in a data center environment at that particular instant The figure displays an example of a Resource Allocation by Sessions report 80 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 96 Resource Allocation by Sessions Report Welc admin admin Profle Help ogout Active System Manager GaleForce Tee 4 E tei Bie Management 7 2 Resource Allocation by Hosts Report This report provides resource allocation data for hosts on which some virtual resources are provisioned in running sessions This report displays CPU and memory allocations grouped by hosts and can be used to view a current usage of the CPU and memory allocation per host for a data center The figure displays an example of a Resource Allocation by Hosts report Figure 97 Resource Allocation by Hosts Report Resource Allocation By Host ms A E cru Bl Memory 20 20MB j 15MB D gt 10 aM 10MB 2 e Lam c 5 5MB 0 OMB z 2 gt E of of Fu FM 7 v eu 81 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 7 3 Resource Allocation by Groups Report This report provides resource allocation data for virtual resources that are utilized in sessions owned by members of a group grouped by group name This report also captures the current al
86. no need to update the Server IP Address information in the Active System Manager inventory The IP Address configured on the hosts by the DHCP server will be updated automatically during the server installation If a new image is required to be added to the appliance follow the steps available in Appendix C Firmware and Software Base Lineup To start the DHCP services execute the etc init d dhcpd restart command G 5 Configuring the PXE Setup with the Existing DHCP Server If the DHCP server already exists on the Hypervisor Management Network perform the following steps 1 Update the appliance s DHCP settings to support the Bootstrap Protocol BOOTP 2 Edit the etc dhcpd dhcpd conf file 3 Update the next server to point to the Active System Manager appliance IP address the images are hosted on the appliance allow loo Ling SUOMI OG filename pxelinux es next server 192 168 122 101 H Appendix H FAQs Q1 Volumes on EqualLogic Array are not removed for cancelled sessions This wastes storage space and consumes iSCSI connections A1 User should manually cleanup the unused volumes on the EqualLogic storage array and iSCSI connections after session is canceled Q2 The orchestrations assume that Port Channel 2 is configured on the switches If not you get a failure indicated by red links on the session A2 The list of port channels are configurable based on the environment this list could be controlled by upda
87. nt agile delivery of applications and IT services made possible by a private cloud infrastructure delivering true IT as a Service through private cloud benefits such as self service portals and chargebacks This document describes the deployment and management of Active System Manager 7 0 on Active System 800 infrastructures 10 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 1 1 Audience IT administrators and IT managers who have purchased or are planning to purchase an Active System configuration can use this document to understand the design elements hardware and software components and the overall architecture of the solution 1 2 Support Contact Dell technical Support by visiting the Dell web site at www dell com support softwarecontacts 1 3 Technical Documentation The Dell Active System Manager documentation enables you to better understand your current Active Infrastructure its deployment and management software For this release we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the following documentation e Active System 800 Spec Sheet e Active System 800 VMware ESX 5 x Reference Architecture e Active System Manager 7 0 User Guide e Active System Manager 7 0 Web Interface User Guide To access the latest Active System Manager documentation for Version 7 0 1 Navigate to www dell com support manuals and click Choose from a list of all Dell products 2 Click Software Monitors Ele
88. oe 66 Updating Template for Blade Server iueoceesosecee o vut ee Ere Ux uh Ere P Re rre Ure teh ERU E pue XU 67 Updating Template Tor VEANS cose sedtoveo anand ois reo S EI PEE E OM Sd RIDPU SURE V Pd RID USUS 67 Updating VLAN ID Range and Parameter ass iss e cup op ARP ux CER ER E PT E EVEN EP ELA Iu 67 Orchestration BUE wick esee nere e edo e ener oa veste ner cuin ses ener cun Pulse ener V dust 68 Orchestration InpUuE vss ooa eoa bear iex deoa Moon EEE deca oen seoneses deca tien seenvses dis eoa boa 2e 68 vCenter T Systen PICDERLICS enana edu boR edu VR Debo Ubuntu PO do tuo EU N 69 TwWO VMs Connected o a MEAN sericis Tere EET e E aai d E I Pea PUDOR Hd QUERN ON 70 ABDUCAEOIS MICEOSOTLE RD ei oiii treu o Eau o o tu x Euo Eau ise rb ue PRI EU POPE MeL CEU DEDE 70 Single VM Connected to a VLAN Sedet o RAE Ex ER o Rib E EMEN Mike nte o REN UY 71 Immaee Files ProDel OS uiis oleae arr RU NE EUSEB RU RE E placa OR mE hU Seir quim oae alas 71 Remove the ASSOCIALION edocuit xa baden ei o Euh Rede rms vn dto ci eu deu pedes deis ut 72 select Gold VM Image File isa asia Qe plot t Quod iets Qe uet Leod dec Qe ett quod diis Qenleer Leod erbe edt 72 SUPPONE Dela CONS sumas QUE HM aUe amen ies wate es ee ies D EMPTUM D EM eee 73 Operation Centel VIEW coocssesssetiver denter veter usd etuvev me a PEE EPI VE QU CU SUP E PES 74 Clusters ana Hosts Example Tao isse teou re Ee Ob ata ntu ru EE OP ata cetur Uo ES xp ta ntur reeset 75 Clusters and Hosts Example 2 s
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91. r The password is listed in the 2 1 Deploying OVF section 2 Run the following script to display the current status of all services including the Oracle database status cd asm galeforce gf sbin Ue HEISUE EHE DIST o redi Below is sample output Active System Manager Services Status asics lieu Ol Release Version 7 0 Build Number 21286 Database 26 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 vendor Oracle ver d Host asm galeriorce Port 1521 Service name DB11G SENSU EO E Active System Manager Service Hosi asm galeforce Pore 40500 Secure Port 50500 Enterprise Dell Lab DEMO Sica vlesy aag Domain Services System Id Des ription Session server Host asm galeforce Port 40500 Secure Port 50500 Status RUNNING 2 6 Installing the Active System Manager Client You can install the Active System Manager Client on the following platforms e 2 6 1 Installing Active System Manager Client Software on Windows e 2 6 2 Installing the Active System Manager Client Software on Mac e 2 6 3 Installing the Active System Manager Client Software on Linux 2 6 1 Installing Active System Manager Client Software on Windows To install the Active System Manager Client software on a Microsoft Windows OS perform the following steps 1 Download the Active System Manager installer x64 version should be downloaded for x64 OS and x32 should be downloaded for x32 based OS 2 On your
92. r displays 60 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 67 List of Repository Files Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements 1 0 ad 4 4 A Name Path Type Base Association E Active S Active System Manage Element iv E 3 TestVM TestVM Image File iv E p vCenter vCenter Harrier Element iv Associate Bulk Associate Disassociate finish Cancel j 8 Right click the selected discovered element select Set Type gt Image File and click Finish Figure 68 Updating Discovered Elements Type to Image File Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements Path Type C pe New Virtual Machine New Virtual Machine Element New Virtual Machine Blau Mistuual Machina lagna E poe Element Set as Base Image File Delete conflicting Configuration File 9 Click Associate to associate the selected element with the VMware VM resource type and click Finish Figure 69 Associating Resource Types 4 gt amp Name Path Type Base Association Si New Virtual Machine New Virtual Machine Element O E New Virtual Machine New Virtual Machine Image File iv 7 4 QA Gold VM QA Gold VM Element ivi 1 ite rehsrms NA Gold WAA1N
93. re ESXi 5 1 Iz au l alll Iz jau z Expand All Categories Collapse All Categories w BIOS 1 w Chassis System Management 1 w Diagnostics 1 Drivers for OS Deployment 1 File Title Importance Release Date Version Actions Enterprise 402012 Q4 Block Optional 12 4 2012 7 2 0 7 A00 Download File OM 7 2 Version 2 Previous Versions Other Formats Add to My Download List Description 9 On your Active System Manager appliance server simply extract the contents of the installation ISO into a new directory using the following commands login as the root user mkdir tmp dellISO i uult ome eel ORo I queues Coals co Eel SOB Come New ize mount o eop Wiis cS Whi Sene neta ller o Lat 91S ssi ccs eed Dell Customized RecoveryCD A00 iso tmp dellISO v Gp x juu etd 90 acme eed Teu It SOEOO Seres esso os I Cell ISOBOO New 96 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 ro catol ie Meme ele Teu mia Toron Iorexees oo 1 lel SOC IN Note If the newly added image need to replace the existing image then execute following commands wy Meme dellad na 15S 6 8 9X518 Iusto es gt copa Miah Ob E NEN Rons eel 1 sesta 190E800rtlweges essu5 L dell ISO8901 E 2 Modifying the ESXi boot cfg Configuration File To confirm that the installation source is not in the root of the TFTP server perform the following steps 1 Update the kernelopt parameter to point the kickstart file to th
94. rent utilization data The data is persisted in the database and the last polled data is provided to the user This report can be grouped by the following VMs Hosts Clusters Storage The figure displays an example of a Top Ten Resource Utilization report 83 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 100 Top Ten Resource Utilization Report Top Ten Resource Utilization Memory 150 125 NS_Cluster 92 41 75 50 Memory Utilization in 25 Top Ten Resource Utilization Top Ten VMs CPU Utilization IN cpu 30 DellWin7 2 22 95 20 CPU Utilization in y y N y a 7 wx 5 F a07 A S A a VA 5 x S SU qj e S 7 amp e S 2 3 S ES x dD G S E ES n Q 3 e F Q e So Q6 S s B d QS A NP ES 7 6 VM Utilization by Session Report This report provides the most recent data for CPU and memory utilized on any VM grouped by sessions This data is available in terms of percentage with respect to the allocated limits The figure displays an example of a VM Utilization by Session Report 84 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 101 VM Utilization by Session Report VM Utilization By Session os CPU Utilization in X 7 Host Utilization Consolidated Report This report displays information about how much capacity is being utilized on a host by all running VMs with
95. respect to the allocated capacity This report is available for CPU and memory attributes The figure displays an example of a Host Utilization Consolidated report Figure 102 Host Utilization Consolidated Report Host Utilization Consolidated Oo 25 CPU Utilization in X 85 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 7 8 Cluster Utilization Consolidated Report This report is similar to the Host Utilization Consolidated report except that it works for clusters The figure displays an example of a Cluster Utilization Consolidated report Figure 103 Cluster Utilization Consolidated Report Cluster Utilization Consolidated M CPU 2 5 ra Eu es eee CPU Utilization in X 0 5 7 9 Storage Utilization Consolidated Report This report provides storage utilization as a percentage of allocated storage for clusters The figure displays an example of a Storage Utilization Consolidated Report Figure 104 Storage Utilization Consolidated Report Storage Utilization Consolidated mCluster 91 98 100 75 50 Storage Utilization in X 25 86 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 7 10 CPU and Memory Utilization Showback Report This report provides CPU and memory utilization of Hosts in percentage over a
96. rnameG domain Password Password to access and manage the vCenter IP Address IP address for the vCenter application This must be IP reachable from the Active System Manager server 37 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 3 2 1 4Starting the Discovery Process To start the Discovery process perform the following steps 1 Connect to the Active System Manager Client using user credentials with Administrator privileges 2 On the menu bar click Tools gt Discovery gt Start which initiates the discovery process for components that were set up during the discovery configuration setup Figure 33 Tools gt Discovery gt Start Reports Window Help Links ae Interface Types Login Profile Purge Sessions Archive Bin Rules Discovery k R3 Setup Be Start amp Authentication Repositories A Users and Groups W Settings fa Repositories Domains m9 Maintenance Window Note e You can view the discovery progress indication at the task bar shown in the bottom of the client 192 168 120 112 40500 admin A merica 286 Resource discovery is in progress e fdiscovery progress is initiated again when a discovery process is already in progress the Active System Manager user is prompted with a message indicating the same 3 After completing the Active System 800 components discovery update the following information manually in the Active S
97. rovided in the Active System Manager EqualLogic Storage Operation Center view Table 7 EqualLogic Group Members Operation Description PoolCreate Creates a new Storage Pool on an EqualLogic Storage Array PoolAddMember Adds a Storage Array to a given Storage Pool on an EqualLogic Storage Array PoolDelete Deletes a Storage Pool present on an EqualLogic Storage Array PoolRename Renames an existing Storage Pool present on an EqualLogic Storage Array Figure 92 EqualLogic Group Members 3 Resource Center Resource Information Ho Flieing Resource Details Name Status 4 CE System Domain Supported Operations 4 Ls AS800 1 AS800 old c BEEN i BEEN I ASMO001 ASM l P DcBsetDefaultvian Set the default VLAN ID for the Data Center Bridging 4 9 EqualLogicGroup DellEqualLogic ee 4 2 Gale Group ep DCBSetState Enable Disable Data Center Bridging ig abc Pool Q poolcreate Creates a Pool on Group T abcl Pool 4 T default Pool amp GaleArray01 Test Member online 50 Clone 4 4 Volume offline 50 DellVolume Volume online 50 DellVolume 101 Volume online 50 DellVolume 102 Volume online 77 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Resource Center No Filtering Name 4 Cm System Domain 4 Lx AS800 1 AS800 J ASMO0001 ASM 4 P EqualLogicGroup DellEqualLogic 4 a Gale Group ic abc Pool r3 abcl Pool 4 5 default Pool g GaleArray01 Test
98. rvice NIS For user management log in to the Windows client and navigate to Tools gt User and Groups The Security Management Users and Groups dialog box displays Note Set the time zone to match the time on the workstation that the Active System Manager client is installed Figure 23 Security Management Users and Groups Security Management Jn 6l Users and Groups M Add edit and delete users and groups with associated permissions Users Groups Search Username First Name LastName Role Authentic Email Status Time Zone nn admin admin admin Administr AL abc galetech com Active America Los_Angeles dit Delet Profil et Pas ct 2 Close For details on user and group administration see the User Profile Management chapter in the Active System Manager User Guide which is downloadable from the Active System Manager 7 0 web portal Help menu or from the Thick client Eclipse based 31 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 3 2 Discovering Active System 800 Components Discovery of the Active System 800 components includes Dell M1000e Chassis Dell M620 Blade servers Dell PowerEdge M I O Aggregators Force10 Top Of Rack ToR 4810 switches Dell EqualLogic Storage Array VMware vCenter Server components 3 2 1 Initiating Discovery To initiate the Discovery process perform the following tasks in this order 3 2 1 1 Configuring Discover
99. s available in the resource adapter configuration file o Name of the Local datastore D 6 Adding the New Image to the Software Repositories If the new image is added by replacing the earlier image directory then no change is required If the new image is added with a new name directory then the PXE Bootable Image repository must be updated as described in 3 3 3 Updating Repository Elements for PXE Bootable Images section 95 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 E Appendix E Adding New ESXi ISO Images This appendix describes the following topics related to adding new ESXi images e Preparing the VMware ESXi 5 x Installation Media e Modifying the ESXi boot cfg Configuration File e Configuring the HTTP ServerCreating a Kickstart Configuration File E 1 Preparing the VMware ESXi 5 x Installation Media To prepare the VMware ESXi 5 x installation media perform the following steps 3 Log in to www dell com 4 Open the support and driver page http www dell com support drivers us en 04 ProductSelector Select rquery fkey e Drivers_PS 5 Select Server gt Storage amp Networking 6 Select PowerEdge 7 Select PowerEdge M620 8 Select VMware ESXi 5 1 The image will be listed in the Drivers for OS Deployment section Figure 108 Drivers for OS Deployment Refine your results 42 files See More Filtering Options Operating System Category Release Date Importance vMWa
100. s cas tel 49 Software Repositories View aie Qoae aid dace Qoi eet Leod dace QEegileet Lud diis Qon eet Tio diio d eds 49 Selecting Repository Type to DDOSLOS s cceses uuo i vaCUERE TRUE HDI TM CUERE E RUPEM TM CUEEC UM ERE 50 update TFTP TOV PAE BOOU isses rese eos ex EUER CUP QUAD EE V E EMO CHI PER UP EE OUI E VE URDU CS 50 Discoverine NEW BlemelltSu us ves cuna ient b vas Ceo a Ee o ru NEATE EO EEE EO CE AER 51 List of Repository Files ssesesescecescececescsocsseceoeececeseeceoeeceosseeosoreeecsoeeceoseeeo 52 Updating Discovered Elements Type to Image File ssssssssessesesessesescsseesescesescecsseee 52 SOftWare Repositories VIOW 3e dece etut c e Pre e whens es da EA utes T EA E NO Pere 52 Selecting Repository Type to Updates ii ica deos eia obo d pesa Deed cem cies eden Send vae be Enden Oben veuve 23 Update TETPATOEPXESBODUS US do REPRE UE Gis RhrdtEbUn a Une OdQU on EDEU OS 54 List Of REPOSILORY E165 cen murs ie RS NE REEF ExVEE SIRE OUR ROUEN SERE NN FK DPUK EHE NEN NU scene tats 55 Updating Discovered Elements Type to Image File cece ec ccceccceescccceccceescceees 55 Repository Properties uon PE A UM MM I eit he ARE LR MET 56 Discoverine NEW ELEMENTS oio e ete d e EURO NE RI SERA AN NIMM aM ted 97 EISPon RepoSIEOL VIE TOS ias cU teen tes aces eaters cr bene sella ee toe exo oda eese esed cies 07 Updating Discovered Elements Type to Configuration File eee 58 ASSOCIA ING Resource IV DES ii uci bemus
101. sccceescceesscesescess 91 D 2 Modifying the ESXi boot cfe Configuration Fille iiseeuo eer roe prr rr no rr n ER rrr US er reU rus 92 D 3 Adis a PAE Menu ENUY Seta ednereu eva PtaNTEREPIXPOVR SUR PERI PA PF RIPURU GE PIA UTR PRU ERUEIDUPUPeS 93 D 4 Configuring the HTTP Server i eseeesesusevekususere bte eU ku MGR E E EST RR E REN E EP S e REPRE re E 93 D 5 Creating a Kickstart Configuration FI iuesasuoessas aseo aEEEDEE ARE E ERPEDEE AR a E PPP DICE AS 93 D 6 Adding the New Image to the Software Repositories esceeeeseeeeeee eene 94 E Appendix E Adding New ESXi ISO Images ccsceeeseeeeee eee ehh hehehe 95 E 1 Preparing the VMware ESXi 5 x Installation Media cece cece cc cenccceececeeeeceeneeceeeeeees 95 E 2 Modifying the ESXi boot cfg Configuration File s eeeceeeeeeeeeeee eene hh ehh 96 E Creating a Kickstart Configuration FIG correre rer tre nr rrr err rr nr rr ner ree rres 96 E 4 Adding the New Image to the Software Repositories ceeceeeeeeee eee hehe 98 F Appendix F Planning WOFKSDOGL v eiu rao eee u oua Sax Tap ER veu RA SENT PEDES REOR RAN xr raor SER SERRE E Ux rites 99 F 1 ESXI Server IP Conrieulr ALON ccd iissesasuseses xEer Pe EPPEer EEG TZPES e EF P EEG P NORIS IE PRI PP XUREEE 99 F 2 VLAN Tor IOA Commit an icc cccsccccscasunecseeesoocscteucccseasgoecsateunseseassoessctameneseavueeses 100 G Appendix G PXE Setup Requirements ccecccccccccccccccessceescc
102. sitory Elements Discovery and Association l Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements bI 4 4 aA Base Association Deselect All Associate Bulk Associate Disassociate 8 Right click the selected Resource Pool and update the Type to Image File and click Finish Figure 46 Repository Elements Discovery and Association Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements Path Base Associati Dell Eq Set Type Element Set as Base Image File Delete conflicting Configuration File 9 Click Associate to associate the storage pools with the required Resource Types Dell EqualLogic PS6110 and EqualLogic Storage Pool and click Finish 48 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 47 Associating Resource Types Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements N 1 0 a 4 4 E Name Type Base Associati V lt b default Image File e Dell Eq 4 m j Select All Deselect All Bulk Associate Resource Types Resource Instances 3 3 3 Updating Repository Elements for PXE Bootable Images To update these repository elements perform the following steps 1 Open the Software Repositories view i
103. size of a Volume 78 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 6 5 Setting Up Storage The following operations are provided on the Active System Manager EqualLogic Storage Operation Center view for performing administrative tasks e Storage group level supported operations e Storage member level supported operations Figure 94 Storage Group Level Supported Operations Resource Center C Resource Information Kaum Y Resource Details Name Status 4 System Domain E Properties 9 Sessions Templates X Monitoring 4 Lx AS800 1 AS800 a ASMO001 ASM Supported Operations 4 EqualLogicGroup DellEqualLogic 4 3 GaleDemo Group ey DCBSetDefaultvlan Set the default VLAN ID for the Data Center Bridging 4 TO default Pool A eS a Enable Disable Data Center Bridging amp SAN Bottom Member offline 9 DCBSetstate rmn orca SAN Top Member online Q poolcreate Creates a Pool on Group GaleDemoPool Pool ip test Pool Table 9 Storage Group Level Supported Operations Operation Description Input Parameter DCBSetDefaultVlan Sets a default VLAN ID for Data Center vLanld Default vLanld for Bridging DCB on an EqualLogic Storage dcb Array DCBSetState Enables or disables DCB on an EqualLogic dcbState enable disable Storage Array PoolCreate Creates a new storage pool in the storage poolName Storage pool group name Figure 95 Storage Memb
104. ssociate eee en emen 7 Click Discover to display all the firmware images available on the image server Figure 40 Repository Elements Discovery and Association Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements Name o Path Type Base As wl lt p kit V5 2 2 R229536 T TENES Set as Base Image File Delete conflicting Configuration File 44 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 8 Click Associate to associate the image file with the required Resource Types Dell EqualLogic Storage Array and EqualLogic Storage Pool Figure 41 Associating Resource Types Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements Name Path Type Xp kit V5 2 1 R219658 2668702045 tgz Image File b kit V5 2 2 R229536 4215795858 tgz Image File n r Resource Types Resource Instances Net gt Figure 42 Associating Inventory Associate Inventory rr pl Associate Inventory Select resource types you wish to associate with the selected file elements No Filtering 4 El Dell A Dell BladeServer R Dell Chassis A Dell EqualLogic PS6110 A Dell EqualLogicStoragePool Dell Forcel0 54810 SJ Dell IOA A Dell Servers p O E VMware 9 Select resour
105. stem Manager appliance as appliance is shipped with latest firmware images otherwise it can the access information for the remote server having the firmware images residing on it the server should be SSH reachable from the Active System Manager appliance for the image server and click Next The Custom Repository Update EqualLogic Firmware Repository dialog box displays see Figure 19 42 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 38 Update EqualLogic Firmware Repository Update Equallogic Firmware Repository Specify the Equallogic Firmware Repository provisioning properties Press Next to get the details of the repository Name Equallogic Firmware Repo Description Equallogic Firmware Repo Location Pattern File Format Folder Format Repository Properties Element Type Image File Note Associated domain will be used to save the repository elements in Save As operation 6 Click Finish Note Ifa new image is added to the appliance skip this step 43 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 39 Repository Elements Discovery and Association Repository Elements Discovery and Association Click Discover to discover new elements or view the existing associated elements Base Association Deselect All Discover v Associate c Associate Bulk Associate Disa
106. t cluster 10 Add hosts to the vCenter cluster 11 The datastore created in the orchestration is used for provisioning the VM in the logical workload templates Provides access to Gold volume and using Gold volume creates base VMs 12 Installs EqualLogic MEM modules The MEM package is transferred to the volume created in the above step to enable the installation 13 Registers base VMs to the vCenter for logical template provisioning Note You should update the template for necessary inputs before scheduling this template for cluster provisioning For details see the 63 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 4 5 Updating Physical Templates section 64 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 4 2 Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning Template Standalone VMware ESXi 5 1 Hypervisor deployment with SD Card with vSwitch and Standalone VMware ESXi 5 1 Hypervisor deployment with HDD with vSwitch can be used for installing ESXi 5 1 on an SD card hard disk respectively using PXE ISO Boot User could specify one or more blade servers for standalone ESXi host provisioning Figure 71 Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning om HT L A T we IOA ToR iSCSI Traffic E R Dell Servers VLAN Auto A Dell EquallogicStoragePool 1 When this template is scheduled this templa
107. te performs the following sequence of operations 1 Reserves single or multiple VLANs for VM traffic using a VLAN component Ifthe VLAN reserved in the session is not already configured on the ToR switches then the VLAN are created and tagged to appropriate port channels 2 IOA Configuration a The VLAN IDs provided for Network1 Network2 Network4 and VLAN component in the physical template are created on the IOA server facing interfaces as Tagged VLANs b The Native VLAN ID provided for Network1 is added as Un Tagged VLAN on the server facing interface C The Native VLAN ID is mandatory for PXE boot scenario 3 NIC Partitioning a NIC Partitioning is enabled on the CAN b NIC Partitioning is only supported Broadcom CNA 4 Set NIC Attributes a Configure the Min and Max Bandwidth b Enable Disable iSCSI Offload on the NIC Partitions c Enable LAN Mode d Enable the Legacy boot protocol for PXE Boot scenario 5 Create the ISO files for each server dynamically based on the Server IP Address Hostname Name server values provided in the database 6 Mount the ISO using iDRAC Virtual Media on all the Servers and initiate the installation process 65 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 fs 10 11 12 4 3 Configure the vSwitch configuration a Create the vSwitch and port groups based on Active System 800 deployment specification b Tag the port groups with appropriate VLANs
108. the VHD Using Hyper V Manager To import the VHD from the Hyper V Manager perform the following steps 1 On the Hyper V Manager dialog box select a host right click and select Import Virtual Machine Figure 5 Hyper V Manager gt Import Virtual Machine EHyper VY Manager ag File Action View Window Help All Blas nmn 33 Hyper v Manager Mew Ba Import Virtual Machine Hyper Settings Virtual Network Manager Edit Disk Inspect Disk Stop Service Remove Server Refresh Vie Ld Mew Window From Here Help 2 Click Browse navigate to the location where the VDH is available in the extracted format and click Import 18 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 6 Import Virtual Machine F Import Virtual Machine Specify the location of the folder that contains the virtual machine Files Settings Import settings Move nr restare the virtual machine use the existing unique IE C Copy the virtual machine create a new unique ID Duplicate all files so the same virtual machine can be imported again p The same virtual machine cannot be imported again IF you do not copy the Files unless you have backed them up to another location first Import Cancel Figure 7 Select Folder Option E E Hyper Manager t Import Virtual Machine X Select Folder x export Ackive Svsbem Manager 7 0 Build 21286 Microsoft anag
109. the hostname command Ensure that all Active System Manager services are stopped first cd SHOME asm galeforce gf sbin Execute the updateHostName sh file and follow the instructions to update the hostname in the Active System Manager installation Start the Active System Manager Services Details on how to start the services are provided in this guide 106
110. ting the portChannelList in the ssi properties file under SHOME asm galeforce gf common integrations Dell Force10 S4810 Q3 Where is the VM created Is there way to specify which Datastore gets created A3 User can specify on which datastore the VM will be created by providing the value of TargetDatastore provisioning parameter of the VM in the template as shown in the screenshot below If there is no value provided for TargetDatastore the RA chooses the best available datastore for VM creation 103 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 109 Provisioning Properties biie d eee i Wirtualt VirtualPiachine_1 Template Link L Properties c EE i Thin Z Guest Customization Required false siaina GuestDNSDomain Inventory GuestHosthlame Configuration Files GuestT ype Windows Image Files GuestWindovwsDorn1ain Guest indowsDomainAdministrator Linux TimeZone Manaqgementhetwork MonttoringFrequency 1 MMoniteringRequired true PreoecductlIcd ResourcePool TargetDatastore Datastores VM Dic play Marne Q4 Is there a way to revert a template or import the original template A4 The original templates are available on the appliance under folder SHOME DefaultTemplates Also as best practice a You should make a copy of the template and make the required modification in the cloned template b Keep the copy of the original templates by exporting them local
111. tive System Manager clients web client and thick RCP client connected to the Active System Manager server The RCP client installation details are provided in the subsequent sections Log in to the Active System Manager Services as the delladmin delladmin user If the license lic file already exists create a backup available under SHOME asm galeforce gf common etc license lic Copy the new license file as license lic in the SHOME asm galeforce gf common etc directory 25 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 2 5 Configuring Active System Manager Services 2 5 1 Starting Services Appliance is configured to start Active System Manager services during start up Following are the steps for starting the appliance manually 1 Log in as the delladmin user The password is listed in the 2 1 Deploying OVF section 2 Execute the following command cd SHOME asm galeforce gf sbin M cus cde wen Note The Active System Manager services must not be started by the root user 2 5 2 Stopping Services Following are the steps for stopping the services manually 1 Login as the delladmin user The password is listed in the 2 1 Deploying OVF section 2 Execute the following command cd SHOME asm galeforce gf sbin stopGF sh 2 5 3 Verifying Service Status To verify that all Active System Manager services are up and running perform the following steps 1 Log in as the delladmin use
112. tring vCenterDatacenter Gale string E E GoldDatastoreVolum GoldVolume string DatastoreVolumeSize 100g string BootProtocol static string E vCenterFolderName AS800Folder string S InstallationDiskType HDD string B SteragePoolName default string 4 m p Q15 When do add new images and firmware versions in the appliance A15 TBD Q16 If a customer is not going to use PXE deployments are they still required to configure this A16 PXE setup is optional if a customer is not going to use PXE deployment They can use ISO boot solution of Active System Manager 7 0 Q17 Do you want to show Hyper V These are all only VMware specific 105 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 A17 Active System Manager 7 0 supports VMware ESXi server imaging and workload provisioning for VMware VM Microsoft Hyper V is not supported with Active System Manager 7 0 Q18 How to change the hostname of the Active System Manager Server A18 Steps to change hostname of the Active System Manager server a b D Q Log in to the Active System Manager as the root user Open the etc sysconfig network file and update the HOSTNAME field value with the new hostname Also update the hostname in the etc hosts file Reboot the server by executing the reboot command Once the server is up and running log in to the server as the delladmin user Verify that the hostname is updated to the new hostname by executing
113. ufacturer Dell at Model CI hassis S8 Dell Chassis Add vCenter a Dell EqualLogic PS6110 Assettag i Dell Forcel0 S4810 v Add Element i sername 5 Dell Forcel0 S4810 R rmove Password IP Address Discovery Attributes Name r Value o Assettag Required Unique key or name used to import or identify the Dell M1000e Chassis within Active System Manager For example Assettag Dell Chassis 001 a unique name can be used to track the chassis in Active System Manager o Username Username to access and manage the Dell M1000e Chassis o Password Password to access and manage the Dell M1000e Chassis o IP Address Required IP address for the Dell M1000e Chassis CMC The CMC should be IP reachable from the Active System Manager server 4 Provide the following element properties for the Dell EqualLogicStorageArray system Figure 7 Figure 28 EqualLogicStorayArray Element Properties Discovery Configuration Setup Use this UI to discover one or more Dell Active Systems with associated servers storage arrays and switches TOR Before you proceed it is recommended to Gather IP addresses and access credentials associated with the chassis blade infrastructure elements storage arrays and switches TOR e Make sure all elements have network connectivity and the associated element management interfaces are accessible from the Active System Manager server Active System Manager Conf
114. urce Center CI Resource Information No Filtering Resource Details Name Status 3 ManagedEquipment E Properties 9 Sessions t Templates EJ Monitoring 4 vCenter 1 vCenter z a E 192 168 120 125 vCenter Name Value f ddddd DataCenter assettag Harrier 4 F Gale DataCenter DataStore datastorel 1 InfraDS NFSShare amp Cluster 56 Cluster B version 1 a amp Harrier Cluster 4 E 192 168 120 169 Host Conneci amp vCenter Harrier VM Powerec vSwitch0 vSwitch amp HarrierDevelopment Dell Cluster gt amp HarrierDevelopment Cluster amp HarrierDevelopment HDD Cluster amp HD test Cluster amp HD testl Cluster B dvSwitch DVSwitch E dvSwitch2 DVSwitch dvSwitch3 DVSwitch dvSwitchTest DVSwitch dvSwitchTestl5 DVSwitch B dvSwitchTest16 DVSwitch B Sumitl DVSwitch n E List Cluster Datastore F Move Host To Cluster Figure 89 Clusters and Hosts Example 2 4 E vCenter 1 vCenter 4 192 168 120 125 vCenter f ddddd DataCenter 4 g Gale DataCenter amp Cluster 56 Cluster 4 amp Harrier Cluster 4 192 168 120 169 Host amp vCenter Harrier VM i vSwitch0 vSwitch amp HarrierDevelopment Dell Cluster amp HarrierDevelopment Cluster amp HarrierDevelopment HDD Cluster amp HD test Cluster amp HD testl Cluster dvSwitch DVSwitch dvSwitch2 DVSwitch E dvSwitch3 DVSwitch E dv
115. y Setup 3 2 1 2 Adding Details for the Active System 3 2 1 3 Adding vCenter System Properties 3 2 1 4 Starting the Discovery Process 3 2 1 1Configuring Discovery Setup To configure Discovery settings perform the following steps 1 Connect to the Active System Manager Client using user credentials with Administrator privileges Select Tools gt Discovery gt Setup Figure 24 Discovery Menu Options Tools Reports Window Help Links fe Interface Types Login Profile Purge Sessions Archive Bin Rules k Discovery 3 Setup Start a Authentication Repositories Qj Users and Groups Settings A Repositories Domains Maintenance Window The Discovery Configuration Setup page displays 32 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 25 Discovery Configuration Setup E Discovery Configuration Setup Use this UI to discover one or more Dell Active Systems with associated servers storage arrays and switches TOR Before you proceed it is recommended to e Gather IP addresses and access credentials associated with the chassis blade infrastructure elements storage arrays and switches TOR Make sure all elements have network connectivity and the associated element management interfaces are accessible from the Active System Manager server Active
116. ystem Manager for all blade servers These parameters will be used for configuring the ESXi Server with appropriate IP Address hostname iSCSI IP Address etc This information can be updated by using the multi editor feature or by opening individual server instances You can launch the multi editor by selecting multiple server instances and then clicking Open with Multi Editor 38 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 AS800 Figure 34 Open with Multi Editor Resource Instances No Filtering e Open 4 Dell 5 Open with Multi Editor a BladeServe Open with CSV Editor 1DYL3V 4DRBQV g 6ZPBQV New AMDT New Session tg 36VBQV Ea FDRBQV Save as l GDRBQ Advanced Clone UB GZEROI Grong 3 Delete Lg HOMDT gt 25 Chassis 1 Show Resource Relations Compellent gt EqualLogic 2 Forcel S48 Collapse All am d Open Resource Type Expand All CSHDYDNL 2 The following parameters must be updated Manufacturer Model Asset Tag Version j server oc com Dell BladeServer 1DYL3V1 1 Manage ipment O AMDTVI Dell BladeServer 21MDTV1 1 Manage ipment j server oc com Dell BladeServer 36VBQV1 1 Manage ipment localhost Dell BladeServer 4DRBQV1 1 Manage ipment j sermer oc com Dell BladeServer 6 PBOQOVL 1 Manage ipment j server occom Dell BladeServer FORBQV1 1 Manage ip

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