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Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 Version A01 April 2013

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 10 1 Introduction to the Active System 800 Solution Today, many IT organizations are

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 100 F Appendix F— Planning Worksheet Table 18. Out of Band Management IP Address Co

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 101 F.2 VLAN for IOA Configuration Traffic Type VLAN Management vMotion VM Workload

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 102 The VM appliance is created with one vNIC. The vNIC needs to be in the Hypervisor

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 103 The ESXi 5.1 customized image is embedded inside the appliance at /var/lib/tftpboo

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 104 Figure 109. Provisioning Properties Q4 Is there a way to revert a template or i

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 105 Q8 What about images and firmwares released after this release of Active System Ma

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 106 A17 Active System Manager 7.0 supports VMware ESXi server imaging and workload pr

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 11 1.1. Audience IT administrators and IT managers — who have purchased, or are plann

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 12 1.4. Overview This section provides a high-level product overview of VMware vSpher

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 13 Table 1 lists the Active System Manager solution for the Active System 800-supporte

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 14 1.5. Active System 800-Supported Configurations Table 2 lists the Active System Ma

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 15 1.7. Deployment Prerequisites Before using the Active System Manager solution for

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 16 2 Active System Manager Deployment 2.1 Deploying OVF The Active System Manager Op

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 17 Figure 3. Name and Location of the Deployed Template 4. Select the appropriate

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 18 2.2 Deploying VHD The Active System Manager Open Virtualization Format (VHD) can b

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 19 Figure 6. Import Virtual Machine Figure 7. Select Folder Option

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) ii This document is for informational purposes only and may contain typo

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 20 3. Select a folder to house the VHD and click Select Folder. Figure 8. Import Set

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 21 6. Select the network. The VM should be mapped to the Hypervisor Management Networ

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 22 Figure 13. Logging In to the Active System Manager 2. Log in as the root user.

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 23 4. Select the network interface card (NIC) appliance on which IP address should be

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 24 Figure 16. Adding IP Addresses 7. Click Apply. Once this is done, open the term

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 25 Figure 17. Terminal Console 8. Execute the /etc/init.d/network restart command.

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 26 2.5 Configuring Active System Manager Services 2.5.1 Starting Services Appliance

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 27 Vendor: Oracle (Ver: 11.2.0.1.0) Host: asm-galeforce Port: 1521 Service name: DB11G

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 28 2.6.2 Installing the Active System Manager Client Software on Mac To install the A

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 29 Figure 19. Connecting to the Active System Manager Server 3. On the Setting Up A

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) iii Contents 1 Introduction to the Active System 800 Solution ...

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 30 Figure 21. Adding New Account 5. Click OK and close the Setting Up Account dialo

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 31 3 Active System Manager Setup This section captures the sequence of steps which sh

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 32 3.2 Discovering Active System 800 Components Discovery of the Active System 800 co

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 33 Figure 25. Discovery Configuration Setup 3.2.1.2 Adding Details for the Active S

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 34 Figure 27. Dell Chassis Element Properties o Assettag—Required. Unique key or na

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 35 The following figure displays an example of how to edit to the /etc/hosts file and

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 36 Figure 31. Dell Force10 Element Properties and Discovery Attributes

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 37 o Assettag—Required. Unique key or name for Dell Force10 Switch which is used to i

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 38 3.2.1.4 Starting the Discovery Process To start the Discovery process, perform the

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 39 Figure 34. Open with Multi-Editor The following parameters must be updated:  I

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) iv 4 Physical Templates and Orchestration ...

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 40  ServerGateway—Gateway for the ESX server.  ServerNetmask—Netmask for the manag

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 41 3.3.1 Updating Repository Elements for Firmware Images on EqualLogic Firmware Repo

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 42 Figure 37. Selecting Repository Type to Update 3. Click the Software Repository

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 43 Figure 38. Update EqualLogic Firmware Repository 6. Click Finish. Note: Ifa ne

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 44 Figure 39. Repository Elements Discovery and Association 7. Click Discover to di

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 45 8. Click Associate to associate the image file with the required Resource Types (D

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 46 3.3.2 Updating Repository Elements for EqualLogic Storage Resource Pools The Equal

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 47 The Software Repository—Update EqualLogic Resource Pool Repository dialog box displ

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 48 Figure 45. Discovering New Elements 8. Right-click the selected Resource Pool an

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 49 Figure 47. Associating Resource Types 3.3.3 Updating Repository Elements for PXE

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) v D.1 Preparing the VMware ESXi 5.x Installation Media ...

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 50 Figure 49. Selecting Repository Type to Update 3. Click the Software Repository

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 51 5. Update the Host attribute value with the IP address of the Active System Manage

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 52 Figure 52. List of Repository Files 10. Right-click the selected discovered eleme

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 53 Figure 55. Selecting Repository Type to Update 3. Click the Software Repository

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 54 Figure 56. Update TFTP for PXE Boot 5. Update the Host attribute value with the

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 55 Figure 57. List of Repository Files 10. Right-click the selected discovered eleme

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 56 Figure 59. Repository Properties 11. Update the Host attribute with the IP addre

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 57 Figure 60. Discovering New Elements 14. Click Discover to initiate the discovery

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 58 Figure 62. Updating Discovered Elements Type to Configuration File 16. Click Asso

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 59 3.3.5 Updating Repository Elements for VMware Baseline Images This repository cont

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) vi Table 11. Build of Material—Templates ...

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 60 Figure 66. Repository Properties 5. Update the VMware vCenter host (IP address),

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 61 Figure 67. List of Repository Files 8. Right-click the selected discovered eleme

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 62 4 Physical Templates and Orchestration 4.1 Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Prov

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 63 5. Create the ISO files for each server dynamically based on the Server IP Address

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 64 4.5 Updating Physical Templates section.

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 65 4.2 Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning Template ‘Standalone—

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 66 7. Configure the vSwitch configuration a. Create the vSwitch and port-groups base

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 67 1. On-demand—VMFS Datastore Provision TBD Per Jerry Ness, need more detail around

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 68 4.5 Updating Physical Templates To update cluster and standalone templates that r

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 69 Figure 77. Orchestration Input a. Double-click the Configure ESXi Server using P

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) vii Figure 30. Dell Force10 Element Properties and Discovery Attributes ...

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 70 Parameter Description vCenterDatacenter vCenter data center to be used for provisio

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 71 5 Workload Provisioning Using Logical Templates 5.1 Two VMs with a VLAN The Two v

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 72 5.2 Single Virtual Machine with VLAN The Single virtual machine with a VLAN Logica

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 73 Figure 84. Remove the Association 3. Click Add and select the gold VM image to b

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 74 6 Operation Center View—Administrative Operations 6.1 Managing Blades The followi

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 75 Figure 87. Operation Center View To initiate the discovery of a VMware vCenter, v

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 76 Figure 88. Clusters and Hosts (Example 1) Figure 89. Clusters and Hosts (Example

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 77 Figure 91. VMware Datastores 6.3 Managing EqualLogic Storage Table 7 lists and d

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 78 6.4 Managing Volume Table 8 lists and defines the operations provided in the Act

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 79 6.5 Setting Up Storage The following operations are provided on the Active System

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) viii Figure 67. Updating Discovered Elements Type to Image File ...

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 80 Table 10. Storage Member-Level Supported Operations Operation Description Input P

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 81 Figure 96. Resource Allocation by Sessions Report 7.2 Resource Allocation by Hos

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 82 7.3 Resource Allocation by Groups Report This report provides resource allocation

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 83 Figure 99. Top Ten Resource Allocation Report 7.5 Top Ten Resource Utilization R

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 84 Figure 100. Top Ten Resource Utilization Report 7.6 VM Utilization by Session Re

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 85 Figure 101. VM Utilization by Session Report 7.7 Host Utilization (Consolidated)

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 86 7.8 Cluster Utilization (Consolidated) Report This report is similar to the Host U

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 87 7.10 CPU and Memory Utilization Showback Report This report provides CPU and memory

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 88 A Appendix A—Deployment Activities A.1 Verifying Active System Manager Services T

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 89 B Appendix B—Build of Materials Table 11 displays a list of build of materials, gr

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) ix Figure 104. CPU & Memory Utilization Showback Report ...

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 90 ID Description Workflows 6—Logical Logical template with two VMs connected to a VLA

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 91 Table 15 displays a list of firmware and software base lineups, grouped by chassis,

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 92 Resource Active System Manager 7.0 Dell OpenManage Plug-in for vCenter 1.6.0.33 Del

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 93 Figure 107. Downloading the ISO Image 7. On your Trivial File Transfer Protocol (

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 94 scsi_aac.v00 --- scsi_adp.v00 --- scsi_aic.v00 --- scsi_fni.v00 --- scsi_hps.v00 --

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 95 2. Create a file named “ks_template.cfg” inside the image directory on the HTTP se

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 96 E Appendix E—Adding New ESXi ISO Images This appendix describes the following topi

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 97 # chmod +w /home/delladmin/ISOBootImages/esxi5.1_dell_ISOBoot_New/* Note: If the

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 98 1. Create the image directory on the HTTP server base location: # cd /home/delladm

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 99 o ESXi license Key. The value is added if the license key information is available