Reference Guide

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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.IT organizations today are often burdened by complex data centers that contain
a mix of technologies from different vendors and cumbersome operational tasks for delivering services
while managing the underlying infrastructure. These tasks are typically performed through multiple
management consoles for different physical and virtual resources, which can dramatically slow down
service deployment. ASM features an enhanced user interface that provides an intuitive, end-to-end
infrastructure and workload automation experience through a unified console. This speeds up workload
delivery and streamlines infrastructure management, enabling IT organizations to accelerate service
delivery and time to value for customers.This document contains information about virtual appliance and
software requirements of ASM, and the resources supported by ASM such as chassis, servers, storage,
network switches, and adapters.
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