Active System Manager Release 8.
Release Type and Definition Active System Manager Active System Manager (ASM) is Dell’s unified management product that provides a comprehensive infrastructure and workload automation solution for IT administrators and teams. The release notes contains important information available at the time of release of Active System Manager (ASM) release 8.3, including information about the ASM release lineup and dependencies, ASM documentation lineup, known issues, and the methods to contact Dell technical support.
What is Supported Supported Web Browsers • Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 9 and later • Mozilla Firefox, version 26 and later • Google Chrome, version 32 and later • Safari, version 6 and later New in this Release Active System Manager 8.3 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.
Important Notes To support interoperability, ASM 8.3 requires: • • • • The following resource locales are set to English: o Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) o VMware vCenter o Dell EqualLogic o Dell Compellent o Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) o Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) o NetApp All Physical server OS installations must be in English to support unattended installation process.
Known Issues This section provides information on open issues and resolutions with this release of Active System Manager 8.3. Issue: ASM-1469: The puppet agent fails to install on Cent OS v6.4. The Cent OS v6.4 cannot mount the appliance's CIFS share in order to download the rpm. Description: The samba-client needs to be installed on the linux VM for the mount to work, but it is not installed. In RHEL 6.5, samba-client is installed by default but not on Cent OS v6.4.
Issue: ASM-2599: Issue with Configure Resources when IOM Firmware is out-of-date with minimum firmware requirements. Description: The following error message is displayed while configuring resources when a firmware running on the I/O module does not meet the minimum requirements. If the IOM firmware is not within the Compatibility Matrix minimum firmware, The following error is displayed when it attempts to show the discovered resources. An Unexpected error has occurred on the system Please try again later.
Description: ASM includes a puppet agent while installing the Windows or Linux operating systems. The puppet agent communicates with the ASM appliance to retrieve the post-install configuration and both server (ASM) and client-side SSL certificates are checked for validity during this process. The ASM server-side SSL certificate is created when the ASM appliance is first started and is marked valid only after the first boot time of the appliance.
Issue: ASM-4561: Problem with 7.12 Broadcom firmware. Description: Broadcom NIC firmware 7.12.xx is not compatible with ASM. It can cause intermittent connectivity issues which will result in hypervisor and bare metal OS deployment failures. Resolution/Workaround: Apply the firmware available in the latest ASM catalog. Alternatively, manually downgrade your Broadcom NIC firmware to 7.10.xx. Also, note that v7.12.17 will not work and later versions resolves this issue, but 7.10.xx is the qualified version.
Issue: ASM-4915: ESXi install to SD card fails. Description: While installing ESXi, a problem with the SD card mirroring may result in a failure occasionally and will display the following error: BANK5: invalid configuration. BANK6: invalid configuration. No hypervisor found. Resolution/Workaround: Delete the server from the ASM service and redeploy it again. Issue: ASM-5132: On PowerEdge C6320 systems with ESXi version 5.1 or ESXi version 5.2 (update 2), the keyboard is unresponsive if USB 3.
Issue: ASM-6498:When adding network resources to a running service, for VMware services that include VDS switches a port group must be entered. Description: When adding network resources to a running service, for VMware services that include VDS switches a port group must be entered. The user interface will not allow you to proceed until a port group is selected from the drop-down. This port group will not be used, but must be selected.
Issue: ASM-7553: Duplicate cluster names in a given vCenter instance cause issues. Description: If two clusters have the same name in a given vCenter, even if they are in different data centers, ASM is unable to tear down the cluster. Resolution/Workaround: Manually remove the cluster from vCenter. Ensure that you do no select the cluster during a tear down of an ASM server. Issue: ASM-7660: An error in the "executionpolicy" command causes the puppet agent to fail during Windows post install.
Installation Procedure For complete installation instructions, see the "Active System Manager 8.3 Installation Guide" available at dell.com/asmdocs. Installation and Configuration Notes None Documentation Errata None Contacting Dell Technical Support • Make sure that the Active System Manager Service Tag is available. • Go to the tech direct portal techdirect.dell.com. • Login using your existing account or create an account if you do not have an account. • Create a new case for your incident.
