Active System Manager 8.
Release Type and Definition Active System Manager Active System Manager (ASM) is Dell’s unified management product that provides a comprehensive infrastructure and workload automation solution for IT administrators and teams. The release notes contains important information available at the time of release of Active System Manager™(ASM), release 8.1, including information about ASM release lineup and dependencies, ASM documentation lineup, known issues, and the methods to contact your service provider.
What’s New The following are the highlights of Active System Manager version 8.1: • Template based flexible RAID configuration • Granular BIOS settings enabled in service template • File upload for MXL configuration • Support for multiple license files • Usability updates for configuration wizard • NTP configuration on all installed operating systems • Firmware compliance improvements • Service error reporting • FX2 Support For iSCSI, FCoE, and FC • RHEL 7.0 support • Cent OS 7.
server, it is expected that whether the correct PXE server IP address will be used in the dhcpd.conf that ASM creates. o • ASM-3493: Network scale up should only allow Public/Private networks. o • • • • • Hyper-V deployments uses one logical network and all hosts are assigned the same logical network.
o • • • ASM-3133: ASM performs the discovery operation on the FX2 chassis after you update the CMC firmware. o The Chassis firmware update will trigger the Chassis inventory which will trigger the Chassis discovery in order to find any newly insert blades or IOMs. o This is an expected behavior.
o When a user with insufficient privileges to a server pool tries to kick off a deployment, the filtering code does not allow the deployment to be kicked off and the following error message is displayed: {=0 servers could be chosen for deployment} • ASM-3463: Compellent deployment fails if you type apostrophes (') or other special characters in some fields. o • When you try to enter apostropes or any other special characters in a field the compellent deployment fails.