Active System Manager Release 8.
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Contents 1 Overview.................................................................................................................4 2 What’s New in this Release..................................................................................5 3 Active System Manager Appliance Requirements.......................................... 6 Hypervisor and Management Requirements........................................................................................6 Browser Requirements...........................
Overview 1 Active System Manager (ASM) is Dell’s unified management product that provides a comprehensive infrastructure and workload automation solution for IT administrators and teams. ASM simplifies and automates the management of heterogeneous environments, enabling IT to respond more rapidly to dynamic business needs.
What’s New in this Release 2 Active System Manager 8.2 is focused on expanding capabilities around workload deployment, adding new capabilities around managing existing environments, and improving the granularity of information shown around the current state of environments under management. The highlights of compatibility matrix of Active System Manager release 8.
Active System Manager Appliance Requirements 3 Active System Manager runs as a virtual appliance on a Dell server configured with the following hardware and software: Table 1. Active System Manager Appliance Requirements Resources Minimum Requirement vCPUs 4 vCPUs Memory 16 GB Disk Space 115 GB Hypervisor and Management Requirements Table 2. Hypervisor and Management Requirements Software Component Supported Version VMware vSphere • 5.1 • 5.5 • 6.
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4 Supported Resources This section provides information about the resources supported by Active System Manager (ASM). The information has been segmented based on the resource types. Supported Physical Server Operating System Table 4. Supported Physical Server Operating System Software Component Supported Version Microsoft Windows • 2008 R2 • 2012 • 2012 R2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux • 6.5–7.2 CentOS • 6.5–7.2 Supported Hypervisor Table 5.
Supported Virtual Machine Operating System Table 7. Supported Virtual Machine Operating System Software Component Supported Version Microsoft Windows • 2008* • 2008 R2 • 2012 • 2012 R2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux • 6.5 -7.2 CentOS • 6.5 -7.2 * It is supported only as a virtual machine and it must be created through cloning. Supported OS Installation and Boot Locations Table 8.
Table 10. Supported 12th Generation of PowerEdge Servers Resource iDRAC Version BIOS Version Lifecycle Controller Version From To From To From To Dell PowerEdge C6220 II* 2.5.3 2.5.3 NA NA NA NA Dell PowerEdge M420 2.1.7 2.4.2 1.57. 57 2.21.21.21 1.4.2 2.21.21.21 Dell PowerEdge M520 2.1.3 2.4.2 1.57. 57 2.21.21.21 1.4.2 2.21.21.21 Dell PowerEdge M620 2.2.7 2.5.2 1.57. 57 2.21.21.21 1.4.2 2.21.21.21 Dell PowerEdge M820 2.0.20 2.3.2 1.57. 57 2.21.21.21 1.4.2 2.21.
Resource Dell PowerEdge R630 Dell PowerEdge R730 Dell PowerEdge R730xd Dell PowerEdge R930 Dell PowerEdge T630 BIOS iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller From To From To 1.0.4 1.3.6 2.02.01.01 2.21.21.21 1.0.4 1.3.6 2.02.01.01 2.21.21.21 1.0.4 1.3.6 2.02.01.01 2.21.21.21 1.0.3 1.0.9 2.13.13.12 2.21.21.21 1.0.4 1.3.6 2.02.01.01 2.21.21.21 Supported Cisco UCS Servers and Firmware Matrix Table 12.
Supported Third-party Storage and Firmware Matrix The following table provides information about the supported third-party storage resources: Table 14. Supported Third-party Storage and Firmware Matrix Resources Firmware Supported From To NetApp FAS 22xx (NFS Only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) NetApp FAS 32xx (NFS Only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) NetApp FAS 62xx (NFS Only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) ONTAP 8.0.
Resource Brocade 300 Brocade M5424** Brocade M6505** Brocade 6510 Brocade 6520 Flex IO Module for IOA and MXL FN IO Aggregators for FX2 10GbE pass-through for FX2 Supported Version From To 7.3.0c 7.3.0c 7.2.0.a 7.3.0.c v7.2.0.a v7.3.0.a 7.2.0.a 7.3.0.a 7.3.0.c 7.3.0.c N/A N/A 9.6.0.0 9.9.0 N/A N/A *On systems with Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extenders, certain servers may experience reduced network connectivity.
Firmware Supported Resource QLogic QME 2662 16 Gb FC HBA QLogic 57810 -k Dual-Port 10Gb Mezzanine QLogic 57840-k Quad-Port 10GbE Mezzanine QLogic 57810 Dual-Port Gigabit NIC PCIe From To 03.10.07 03.11.09 7.8 7.10.18 7.8 7.10.18 7.8 7.10.18 * Configuration of 10 Gb ports only. 1 Gb ports are not configured.
Supported Storage Networking The following table provides information about the supported storage networking devices: Table 19.
Supported vSAN Ready Node Table 22. Supported vSAN Ready Node Supported vSAN Node Supported vSAN Version HY-6 Series: Dell R730XD 6.2 NOTE: For more information on vSAN Ready Node, see https://www.vmware.com/resources/ compatibility/pdf/vi_vsan_rn_guide.pdf.
Other Documents You May Need 5 See http://www.dell.com/asmdocs for additional supporting documents such as: • Active System Manager Release 8.2 User’s Guide • Active System Manager Release 8.2 Release Notes • Active System Manager Release 8.2 Installation Guide • Active System Manager Release 8.2 API Reference Guide • Active System Manager Release 8.2 SDK Reference Guide • Active System Manager Integration for VMware vRealize Orchestrator User’s Guide You can also see http://www.dell.
