Users Guide

– Full lifecycle management of physical and virtual infrastructure and workloads.

• Deep virtualization integration — Manage cluster-level and virtual machine (VM) lifecycle.

• Resource pooling and dynamic allocation — Optimize capital expenditures by creating and

managing physical and virtual IT resource pools.

• Radically simplified management — Powerful and intuitive user interface that makes it easy to set up,

deploy, and manage your IT environment and enables simplified integration with third-party tools.

• Open and extensible — An architecture that integrates with the IT of today and tomorrow; this means

being able to plug a new solution into your existing architecture, as well as giving you flexibility in the

future to adopt new technical innovations.

ASM makes it easy to automate IT service delivery and to manage your IT environment end-to-end. You

can improve and accelerate service and infrastructure delivery, maximize efficiency across your IT service

lifecycle, and consistently achieve high-quality IT services.

About this document

This document version is updated for ASM release 8.2.1.

What’s New in this Release

Active System Manager 8.2.1 is focused on expanding capabilities around workload deployment, adding

new capabilities around managing existing environments, and improving the granularity of information

shown around the current state of environments under management.

The highlights of Active System Manager release 8.2.1 include the following:

• Support for Dell Hybrid Cloud Platform with VMware that includes

– Discovery, automated deployment and lifecycle management of R730xd based node with H730

PERC controller

– Updates to support the latest version of vRealize Automation for enabling ASM VSAN templates to

provision and scale VSAN nodes

• Compatibility upgrades for vRealize Automation Suite

– ASM plugin updates to support the latest version of VMware vRealize Orchestrator (v7.0.1)

– Discontinuing ASM plug-in support for vRealize Orchestrator v5.0 version and following

• Enabling Intel NICs to be supported for iSCSI network in a diverged environment

This release also includes compatibility support for the following:

Support for Dell PowerEdge R730xd server with Virtual vSAN ready node 6.2 (HY-6 Series).

Accessing Online Help

Active System Manager (ASM) online help system provides context-sensitive help available from every

page in the ASM user interface.