Users Guide

Resources

The Chassis, servers, switches, storage groups, VMware vCenters, and System Center Virtual Machine

Managers (SCVMM) that you can manage using ASM are called resources.

The

Resources page displays detailed information about all the resources and the server pools that ASM

has discovered and inventoried, and allows you to perform various operations from the All Resources and

Server Pools tabs.

NOTE

: It may take few minutes to display the discovered resources every time you run the

inventory, depending upon the number of resources.

Related Links

Understanding All Resources Tab

Understanding Server Pools

Understanding All Resources Tab

The

All Resources tab displays the following information in tabular form about the resources discovered

and managed in ASM.

• State in which the resource exists. For example, Available, Deployed, Pending, Error, and so on.

NOTE

: The state column displays the last discovery state of the resources. To manually run the

inventory operation on a resource and update ASM with the latest resource details, click a

resource, and then click Run Inventory in the Details pane.

• IP address of the resource. (Click the IP address of a Dell resource to open the Element Manager.)

• Resource ID that uniquely identifies a resource in the form of service tag, host name, or FQDN based

on the resource types.

• Manufacturer name. For example, Dell, Cisco, VMware, and so on.

• Resource model. For example, M620, M1000e, PowerEdge VRTX, and so on.

• Resource type. For example, Chassis, Blade Server, EqualLogic Storage Group, VMware vCenter, and

so on.

To sort the resource list based on the entries in a column, click the arrow next the column header.

To filter resources based on the resource types, from the View By

drop-down list, select one of the

following resource types:

• All Resources

• Dell Chassis

• Servers

• Switches

• Storage

• Hypervisor Management Software

From this page, you can: