Active System Manager Release 8.3.
Notes, cautions, and warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. Copyright © 2017 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries.
Contents 1 Overview......................................................................................................................... 4 2 What’s New in this Release............................................................................................. 5 3 Active System Manager Appliance Requirements............................................................6 Hypervisor and Management Requirements...................................................................................................
1 Overview 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.
2 What’s New in this Release Active System Manager 8.3.1 is focused on expanding capabilities around vSAN deployment, adding new capabilities around managing Ready Bundle for Virtualization, the industry's most flexible converged system offering in a virtualized environment. The highlights of compatibility matrix of the Active System Manager Release 8.3.1 include the following: • Support for the SATADOM Boot option for Dell PowerEdge R630, PowerEdge R730, and PowerEdge R730xd systems.
3 Active System Manager Appliance Requirements 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 • 6.0 • 6.
Operating System Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Microsoft Windows 7 Version 9 or Later Version 26 or Later Version 32 or Later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 and 7.0 Not Supported Version 26 or Later Version 32 or Later Cent OS 6.5 and 7.
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 6.5–6.7, 7.0–7.2 CentOS 6.5–6.7, 7.0–7.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 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 -6.7, 7.0 -7.2 CentOS 6.5 -6.7, 7.0 -7.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 * It is supported only as a virtual machine and it must be created through cloning. Supported OS Installation and Boot Locations Table 8.
Resource BIOS Version iDRAC Version Lifecycle Controller Version From To From To From To Dell PowerEdge M620 2.5.4 2.5.4 2.30.30.30 2.40.40.40 2.30.30.30 2.40.40.40 Dell PowerEdge M820 2.3.3 2.3.3 2.30.30.30 2.40.40.40 2.30.30.30 2.40.40.40 Dell PowerEdge R420 2.4.2 2.4.2 2.32.31.30 2.40.40.40 2.32.31.30 2.40.40.40 Dell PowerEdge R520 2.4.2 2.4.2 2.32.31.30 2.40.40.40 2.32.31.30 2.40.40.40 Dell PowerEdge R620 2.5.4 2.5.4 2.30.30.30 2.40.40.40 2.30.30.30 2.40.40.
Supported Cisco UCS Servers and Firmware Matrix Table 12. Supported Cisco UCS Servers and Firmware Matrix Resource Firmware Supported From To N/A N/A Cisco UCS B Series M1/M2/M3 NOTE: ASM supports deployment of the operating system on the supported Cisco UCS servers. If you want to deploy operating system on Cisco UCS servers, you must apply required hardware configuration by using a service profile in UCS Manager.
Resource Dell Networking S5000 (Ethernet only) Dell Networking S6000 Dell Networking S4048-ON Dell Networking S4048-ON Base T Dell Networking S4810 Dell Networking S4820T Dell Networking MXL 10/40GbE blade switch Dell Networking 8/4Gbps FC SAN Module Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator switch Cisco Nexus 5500 series (Ethernet only) Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extender** 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
Table 15.
Supported Storage Controllers on the 13th Generation of PowerEdge Servers The following table provides information about the storage controllers supported on the 13th generation of PowerEdge servers: Table 17. Supported Storage Controllers on the 13 th Generation of PowerEdge Servers Resource From To PERC H330 and H330 mini 25.3.0.0016 25.3.0.0016 PERC H730 and H730 mini 25.4.0017 25.4.0017 PERC H730P and H730P mini 25.4.0017 25.4.0017 PERC H830 25.4.0.0015 25.4.0.0015 PERC HBA 330 09.17.
Table 20. Supported connectivity protocols PXE (DHCP only) Virtual Media (DHCP IP) Virtual Media (Static IP) Linux Supported Intel NICs only Intel NICs only Windows Supported Intel NICs only Intel NICs only ESXi Supported Intel NICs only Intel NICs only Hyper-V Supported Intel NICs only Intel NICs only Supported vSAN Ready Node Table 21. Supported vSAN Ready Node Supported vSAN Node Supported vSAN Version HY-6 Series: Dell PowerEdge R730XD 6.2 and 6.
5 Other Documents You May Need See dell.com/asmdocs for additional supporting documents such as: • Active System Manager Release 8.3.1 User’s Guide • Active System Manager Release 8.3.1 Release Notes • Active System Manager Release 8.3.1 Installation Guide • Active System Manager Release 8.3.1 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.
