Users Guide

Contents
1 Overview................................................................................................................. 7
About this document............................................................................................................................ 8
What is New in this Release.................................................................................................................. 8
Accessing Online Help.......................................................................................................................... 8
Other documents you may need......................................................................................................... 9
Licensing................................................................................................................................................9
2 Getting started with ASM 8.1............................................................................ 11
3 Initial setup...........................................................................................................13
Uploading license................................................................................................................................14
Configuring time zone and NTP settings........................................................................................... 14
Configure proxy settings.....................................................................................................................14
Configure DHCP settings.................................................................................................................... 15
Verifying initial setup........................................................................................................................... 16
4 Dashboard............................................................................................................ 17
Service states....................................................................................................................................... 19
5 Services................................................................................................................. 21
Deploy service.....................................................................................................................................22
Viewing service details........................................................................................................................24
Component deployment states....................................................................................................27
Editing service information................................................................................................................. 27
Deleting service...................................................................................................................................28
Exporting service details..................................................................................................................... 28
Retry failed service.............................................................................................................................. 28
View Service Deployment Settings.....................................................................................................29
Migrating servers (service mobility)....................................................................................................29
Migration prerequisites................................................................................................................. 29
Migrating servers.................................................................................................................................30
Updating Server Component............................................................................................................. 30
Adding components to existing service deployments...................................................................... 30
Adding applications to existing service.........................................................................................31
Adding clusters to existing service................................................................................................32
Adding Virtual Machines to existing service.................................................................................32
Adding servers to existing service.................................................................................................33
Adding storage to existing service................................................................................................34
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