Deployment Guide

• Service Lifecycle Enhancements supports:
– Ability to scale up storage, hosts, and virtual machines.
– Ability to retry and deploy a failed service.
Accessing Online Help
ASM online help system provides context-sensitive help available from every page in ASM user
interface.
After you log in to ASM user interface, you can access the online help in any of the following ways:
• To open context-sensitive online help for the active page, click ?, and then click Help.
• To open context-sensitive online help for a dialog box, click ? in the dialog box.
Additionally, in the online help, use the Enter search items option in the Table of Contents to search for a
specific topic or keyword.
Other Documents You May Need
Go to http://www.dell.com/asmdocs for additional supporting documents such as:
• Dell Active System Manager version 7.6 User’s Guide
• Dell Active System Manager version 7.6 Release Notes
• Dell Active System Manager version 7.6 Quick Installation Guide
For more information about best practices, Dell solutions, and service, see Dell Active System Manager
page on Dell Techcenter:
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/converged-infrastructure/w/wiki/4318.dell-active-system-
manager.aspx
Licensing
ASM licensing is based on the total number of managed resources, except for the VMware vCenter and
Windows SCVMM instances
ASM 7.6 supports following license types:
• Trail License — A Trial license can be procured though the account team and it supports up to 25
resources for 90 days.
• Standard License — A Standard license grants full access.
You will receive an e-mail from customer service with the instructions of downloading ASM. The license
file is attached to that email.
If you are using ASM for the first time, you must upload the license file through the Initial Setup wizard.
To upload and activate subsequent licenses, click Settings → Virtual Appliance Management.
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