Install Guide

Installation and Quick Start

The following sections provide installation and quick start information, including step-by-step instructions for deploying and

configuring ASM in VMware vSphere or Microsoft virtualization environment. Only one instance of ASM should be installed within a

network environment. Exceeding this limit can cause conflicts in device communication.

Information Pre-requisites

Before you begin the installation process:

• Gather the TCP/IP address information to assign to the virtual appliance.

• Ensure that the VMware vCenter server and VMware vSphere client are running, if you are deploying the ASM virtual appliance

in a VMware vSphere environment.

• Deploying the ASM virtual appliance to a Microsoft Windows virtualization environment requires that the Hyper-V host on which

ASM is deployed is installed on a running instance of SCVMM.

• Download ASM appliance file, which contains either the virtual appliance.ovf file for (VMware) or the virtual appliance virtual

hard drive .vhd (Hyper-V) or the qcow2 file for KVM installation.

• Determine the host on which the ASM virtual appliance is installed. You can use any host managed by VMware vCenter or

Hyper-V manager that has network connectivity with your out-of-band (OOB), management, and potentially iSCSI networks.

This is required for discovery to complete successfully.

CAUTION: ASM virtual appliance functions as a regular virtual machine. Therefore, any interruptions or shut downs

affects the overall functionality.

Installing Active System Manager

Before you begin, make sure that systems are connected and VMware vCenter Server, VMware vSphere Client, and SCVMM are

running.

NOTE: All switches must have SSH connectivity enabled.

Deployment pre-requisites

Table 2. Deployment pre-requisites

Specification Pre-requisite

Connection Requirements

• The virtual appliance is able to communicate with the out-of-band management network

and any other networks from which you want to discover the resources.

• The virtual appliance is able to communicate with the OS Installation network in which the

appliance is deployed. It is recommended to configure the virtual appliance directly on the

OS Installation network, and not on the external network.

• The virtual appliance is able to communicate with the hypervisor management network.