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Active System Manager Solution Guide

Active System 800

Version A01

April 2013

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Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 800 Version A01 April 2013
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) This document is for informational purposes only and may contain typographical errors and technical inaccuracies. The content is provided as is, without express or implied warranties of any kind. © 2013 Dell Inc.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Contents 1 2 Introduction to the Active System 800 Solution .............................................................. 10 1.1. Audience ...................................................................................................... 11 1.2. Support ........................................................................................................ 11 1.3. Technical Documentation .............................................
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 4 5 6 7 A Physical Templates and Orchestration ......................................................................... 62 4.1 Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning ......................................................... 62 4.2 Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning ........................................... 64 4.3 Associated Orchestrations with Cluster and Standalone Host Templates ......................
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) E F G D.1 Preparing the VMware ESXi 5.x Installation Media .................................................... 91 D.2 Modifying the ESXi boot.cfg Configuration File ........................................................ 92 D.3 Adding a PXE Menu Entry .................................................................................. 93 D.4 Configuring the HTTP Server ..................................................................
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Table 11. Build of Material—Templates ........................................................................... 88 Table 12. Firmware and Software Base Lineup—Hypervisor Blades .......................................... 89 Table 13. Firmware and Software Base Lineup—Management Blade ........................................ 89 Table 14. Firmware and Software Base Lineup—Chassis, Storage, Switches ...............................
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 30. Dell Force10 Element Properties and Discovery Attributes ....................................... 36 Figure 31. Adding vCenter System Properties .................................................................... 37 Figure 32. Tools > Discovery > Start ................................................................................ 38 Figure 33. Open with Multi-Editor ...................................................................
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 67. Updating Discovered Elements Type to Image File ................................................ 61 Figure 68. Associating Resource Types ............................................................................ 61 Figure 69. Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning ...................................................... 62 Figure 70. Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning ....................................
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 104. CPU & Memory Utilization Showback Report ........................................................ 86 Figure 105. Reset Zoom ................................................................................................ 86 Figure 106. Downloading the ISO Image ............................................................................ 92 Figure 107. Drivers for OS Deployment .........................................................
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 1 Introduction to the Active System 800 Solution Today, many IT organizations are missing deadlines or cannot respond fast enough to customer demands, have insufficient IT budgets, or have to manage trade-offs. In response, convergence in the data center has emerged as a trend in IT to address the growing needs for agility, efficiency, and quality.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 1.1. Audience IT administrators and IT managers — who have purchased, or are planning to purchase an Active System configuration—can use this document to understand the design elements, hardware and software components, and the overall architecture of the solution 1.2. Support Contact Dell technical Support by visiting the Dell web site at www.dell.com/support/softwarecontacts. 1.3.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 1.4. Overview This section provides a high-level product overview of VMware vSphere, Dell PowerEdge blade servers, Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator, Dell Force10 S4810 switch, Dell Force10 S55 switch, and Dell EqualLogic Storage.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Table 1 lists the Active System Manager solution for the Active System 800-supported components. Table 1. Active System 800-Supported Components Component Details VMware vSphere 5.1 Hypervisor Up to 2x Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis with up to 32x Dell PowerEdge M620 Blade Servers and embedded VMware vSphere 5.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 1.5. Active System 800-Supported Configurations Table 2 lists the Active System Manager solution for the Active System 800-supported configurations. Table 2.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 1.7. Deployment Prerequisites Before using the Active System Manager solution for end-to-end provisioning of Active System 800 components, ensure that the prerequisites listed in Table 4 are in place. Table 4.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 2 Active System Manager Deployment 2.1 Deploying OVF The Active System Manager Open Virtualization Format (OVF) can be imported on to an ESXi host using the VMware OVF import process. When booted, the Active System Manager VM get its IP address from an existing DHCP server. If the DHCP server is not configured, then assign the IP address manually to the appliance. 2.1.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 3. Name and Location of the Deployed Template 4. Select the appropriate datastore name where the VM must be hosted. 5. Select the disk format. (Thin provisioning is supported and recommended.) 6. Select the network name. The VM must be mapped to the Hypervisor Management Network. All networks (for example, OOB, Hypervisor Management, vMotion, iSCSI, and VM workloads) are expected to be accessible from the appliance. Figure 4.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 2.2 Deploying VHD The Active System Manager Open Virtualization Format (VHD) can be imported on to a Hyper-V host using the Hyper-V Manager > Import Virtual Machine option. When booted, the Active System Manager VM gets its IP address from an existing DHCP server. If a DHCP server is not configured, manually assign the IP address to the appliance. 2.2.1.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 6. Import Virtual Machine Figure 7.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 3. Select a folder to house the VHD and click Select Folder. Figure 8. Import Settings 4. Verify the location that contains the virtual machine files and click Import. Figure 9. Newly-Imported VM Displayed on the Hyper-V Manager 5. Select the VM and click Start to power on the VM. Figure 10.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 6. Select the network. The VM should be mapped to the Hypervisor Management Network. All the networks (for example, OOB, Hypervisor Management, vMotion, iSCSI, and VM workloads) are expected to be accessible from the appliance. Figure 11. Selecting the Network 7. Click Connect to launch the console. Figure 12. Connecting to Launch the Console 2.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 13. Logging In to the Active System Manager 2. Log in as the root user. Root user credentials are given Key Access Credentials. 3. Navigate to System >Preferences >Network Connections to launch the Network Connections wizard. Figure 14.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 4. Select the network interface card (NIC) appliance on which IP address should be configured manually and click Edit. 5. When the Editing dialog box displays (see figure below) update the IP address: select the IPv4 settings, click the Method drop-down list and select Manual. Figure 15. Editing 6. Click Add to provide the IP address and other networking details (for example, DNS), as shown in the next figure.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 16. Adding IP Addresses 7. Click Apply. Once this is done, open the terminal by clicking Applications > System Tools > Terminal.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 17. Terminal Console 8. Execute the /etc/init.d/network restart command. 9. Log in to the appliance with the newly configured IP address. This will ensure that IP address is configured correctly on appliance. 2.4 Installing the Active System Manager License To install the Active System Manager license via the web client, perform the following steps: 1.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 2.5 Configuring Active System Manager Services 2.5.1 Starting Services Appliance is configured to start Active System Manager services during start-up. Following are the steps for starting the appliance manually. 1. Log in as the delladmin user. The password is listed in the 2.1 Deploying OVF section. 2. Execute the following command: cd $HOME/asm-galeforce/gf/sbin ./startGF.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Vendor: Oracle (Ver: 11.2.0.1.0) Host: asm-galeforce Port: 1521 Service name: DB11G Status: Running Active System Manager Service ---------------------------------Host: asm-galeforce Port: 40500 Secure Port: 50500 Enterprise: Dell Lab: DEMO Status: Running Domain Services ---------------1.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 2.6.2 Installing the Active System Manager Client Software on Mac To install the Active System Manager Client software on a Mac OS, perform the following steps: 1. Download the ActiveSystemManager-macosx.x86_64_7.0.0_xyzt.zip file. 2. Unzip the file into a specific folder destination on your hard drive. 3. Create the Active System Manager folder and move the file contents to this location. 4. Execute the Active System Manager.app file. 2.6.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 19. Connecting to the Active System Manager Server 3. On the Setting Up Accounts dialog box, click Add. Name the account as the connection to the Active System Manager appliance. Figure 20. Setting Up Accounts 4. Provide the name of the connection and IP address of the appliance. The name of the connection can be any descriptive as shown in the following figure.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 21. Adding New Account 5. Click OK and close the Setting Up Account dialog box. 6. Select the account created in earlier step 4. Figure 22. Logging In to the Active System Manager 7. Provide the username and the password for the appliance. The default username and password is admin/admin. Click OK to launch the Active System Manager application.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 3 Active System Manager Setup This section captures the sequence of steps which should be followed within Active System Manager for managing deploying the blade servers in the Active System 800. 3.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 3.2 Discovering Active System 800 Components Discovery of the Active System 800 components includes:       Dell M1000e Chassis Dell M620 Blade servers Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregators Force10 Top-Of-Rack (ToR) S4810 switches Dell EqualLogic Storage Array VMware vCenter Server components 3.2.1 Initiating Discovery To initiate the Discovery process, perform the following tasks in this order:     3.2.1.1 3.2.1.2 3.2.1.3 3.2.1.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 25. Discovery Configuration Setup 3.2.1.2 Adding Details for the Active System 800 Unit To add details for the Active System 800 unit, click Add System. This feature displays names for Active System 800 components that will be discovered; for example:    Dell Chassis Dell EqualLogic Storage Array Dell Force10 Figure 26. Adding System Details 3.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 27. Dell Chassis Element Properties o Assettag—Required. Unique key or name used to import or identify the Dell M1000e Chassis within Active System Manager. For example Assettag Dell_Chassis_001 (a unique name) can be used to track the chassis in Active System Manager o Username—Username to access and manage the Dell M1000e Chassis. o Password—Password to access and manage the Dell M1000e Chassis. o IP Address—Required.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) The following figure displays an example of how to edit to the /etc/hosts file and how it should be saved: Save file > press Esc > type :wq! > press Enter. Figure 29. Editing and Saving the /etc/hosts File Note: Ifthere are multiple storage groups, there should be an entry for each of the Storage Group in the Discovery Configuration Setup view.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 31.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) o Assettag—Required. Unique key or name for Dell Force10 Switch which is used to import or identify the Force10 Switch in Active System Manager. For example, Assettag Dell_Force10-S4810_1 (a unique name) can be used to track the Force10 Switch in Active System Manager o Username—Username to manage the Force10 switch. o Password—Password to manage the Force10 switch. o IP Address—Required. Management IP address for the Force10 switch.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 3.2.1.4 Starting the Discovery Process To start the Discovery process, perform the following steps: 1. Connect to the Active System Manager Client using user credentials with Administrator privileges. 2. On the menu bar, click Tools >Discovery >Start, which initiates the discovery process for components that were set up during the discovery configuration setup. Figure 33.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 34. Open with Multi-Editor The following parameters must be updated:  ISCSIvNICIPAddresses—Space-separated list of IP addresses to be assigned to iSCSI virtual network interface cards (vNICs). For example, for updating information for “vmnic6 vmnic7” using the Update Port Group with iSCSI VLAN operation, the value can be in the 192.168.120.XX 192.168.120.YY format. as an example and will depend on the environment subnet range.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800)  ServerGateway—Gateway for the ESX server.  ServerNetmask—Netmask for the management NIC of ESX server.  ServerIPAddress—IP address that must be assigned to management NIC of the ESX server. Ifthe hypervisor must retrieve an IP address from the DHCP server, leave this parameter blank.  ServerPassword—Server root password to be assigned during unattended installation.  vMotionIPAddress—TBD  vMotionSubnet (netmask)—TBD 3.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 3.3.1 Updating Repository Elements for Firmware Images on EqualLogic Firmware Repo The EqualLogic StorageArray repository contains firmware images to be used for updating the firmware on EqualLogic Storage Arrays. To update these repository elements, perform the following steps: 1. Open the Software Repositories view in the setup perspective by clicking Setup > Software Repositories on the client. Figure 36. Software Repositories View 2.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 37. Selecting Repository Type to Update 3. Click the Software Repository > Existing radio buttons. 4. Using the drop-down menu, select the Repository Type and click Next. 5.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 38. Update EqualLogic Firmware Repository 6. Click Finish. Note: Ifa new image is added to the appliance, skip this step.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 39. Repository Elements Discovery and Association 7. Click Discover to display all the firmware images available on the image server. Figure 40.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 8. Click Associate to associate the image file with the required Resource Types (Dell EqualLogic Storage Array and EqualLogic Storage Pool). Figure 41. Associating Resource Types Figure 42. Associating Inventory 9. Select resource types and click OK.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 3.3.2 Updating Repository Elements for EqualLogic Storage Resource Pools The EqualLogic Storage Resource Pool repository contains the information of the Storage Pools available on EqualLogic Storage Arrays. To update these repository elements, perform the following steps: 1. Open the Software Repositories view in the setup perspective. 2. Right-click the view and select Repositories.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) The Software Repository—Update EqualLogic Resource Pool Repository dialog box displays. Figure 44. Update EqualLogic Resource Pool Repository 5. Update the Host, Username, and Password parameters. These parameters correspond to storage group Management IP address, group username, group password respectively, and click Next. 6. Click Finish. Note: Ifa new resource pool is added and information needs to be updated, skip this step. 7.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 45. Discovering New Elements 8. Right-click the selected Resource Pool and update the Type to Image File, and click Finish. Figure 46. Repository Elements Discovery and Association 9. Click Associate to associate the storage pools with the required Resource Types (Dell EqualLogic-PS6110 and EqualLogic Storage Pool), and click Finish.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 47. Associating Resource Types 3.3.3 Updating Repository Elements for PXE Bootable Images To update these repository elements, perform the following steps: 1. Open the Software Repositories view in the Setup perspective. Figure 48. Software Repositories View 2. Right-click the view and select Repositories. The Custom Repository—Select Repository Type dialog box displays.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 49. Selecting Repository Type to Update 3. Click the Software Repository > Existing radio buttons. 4. Using the drop-down menu, select PXE Bootable Images and click Next. The Update Trivial File Transfer Protocol for PXE Boot dialog box displays. Figure 50.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 5. Update the Host attribute value with the IP address of the Active System Manager appliance. 6. The Username and Password are configured with default appliance username and password. These needs to be updated Ifthe default username/password is updated. 7. Click Next to display the list of repository files. 8. Click Finish. Note: Ifa new resource pool is added and information needs to be updated, skip this step. Figure 51.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 52. List of Repository Files 10. Right-click the selected discovered elements and update the Type to Image File, and click Finish. Figure 53. Updating Discovered Elements Type to Image File 3.3.4 Updating Repository Elements for ISO Bootable Images To update these repository elements, perform the following steps: 1. Open the Software Repositories view in the Setup perspective. Figure 54. Software Repositories View 2.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 55. Selecting Repository Type to Update 3. Click the Software Repository > Existing radio buttons. 4. Using the drop-down menu, select ISO Bootable Images and click Next. The Update Trivial File Transfer Protocol for ISO Boot dialog box displays.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 56. Update TFTP for PXE Boot 5. Update the Host attribute value with the IP address of the Active System Manager appliance. 6. The Username and Password are configured with default appliance username and password. These needs to be updated if the default username/password is updated. 7. Click Next to display the list of repository files. 8. Click Finish.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 57. List of Repository Files 10. Right-click the selected discovered elements and update the Type to Image File, and click Finish. Figure 58.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 59. Repository Properties 11. Update the Host attribute with the IP address of the VM appliance. 12. Click Next to display the list of repository files. 13. Click Finish. Note: Ifa new resource pool is added and information needs to be updated, skip this step.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 60. Discovering New Elements 14. Click Discover to initiate the discovery of the repository files. The list of discovered elements in the repository displays. Figure 61. List of Repository Files 15. Right-click the selected discovered elements, update the Type to Configuration File, and click Finish.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 62. Updating Discovered Elements Type to Configuration File 16. Click Associate to associate the selected element with the Dell Force10 resource type and click Finish. Figure 63.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 3.3.5 Updating Repository Elements for VMware Baseline Images This repository contains VMware baseline images for creating VM clones. To update the repository elements for VMware baseline images, perform the following steps: 1. Open the Software Repositories view in the Setup perspective. Figure 64. Software Repositories View 2. Right-click the view and select Repositories. The Custom Repository—Select Repository Type dialog box displays.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 66. Repository Properties 5. Update the VMware vCenter host (IP address), username, and password. 6. Click Next to display the list of repository files. 7. Click Discover to initiate the discovery of the repository files. The list of VMs managed by the vCenter displays.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 67. List of Repository Files 8. Right-click the selected discovered element, select Set Type > Image File, and click Finish. Figure 68. Updating Discovered Elements Type to Image File 9. Click Associate to associate the selected element with the VMware VM resource type and click Finish. Figure 69.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 4 Physical Templates and Orchestration 4.1 Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning Template ‘Cluster - VMware ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor deployment ISO boot’ and ‘Cluster - VMware ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor deployment PXE boot’ can be used for installing ESXi 5.1 on an SD card/hard disk, respectively, using PXE / ISO Boot. You can specify one or more blade servers using this template for creating a cluster. Figure 70.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 5. Create the ISO files for each server dynamically based on the Server IP Address, Hostname, Name server values provided in the database. 6. Mount the ISO using iDRAC Virtual Media on all the Servers and initiate the installation process. 7. Configure the vSwitch configuration a. Create the vSwitch and port-groups based on Active System 800 deployment specification b. Tag the port-groups with appropriate VLANs as specified in the template c.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 4.5 Updating Physical Templates section.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 4.2 Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning Template ‘Standalone—VMware ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor deployment with SD Card with vSwitch’ and ‘Standalone – VMware ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor deployment with HDD with vSwitch’ can be used for installing ESXi 5.1 on an SD card/hard disk, respectively, using PXE / ISO Boot. User could specify one or more blade servers for standalone ESXi host provisioning. Figure 71.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 7. Configure the vSwitch configuration a. Create the vSwitch and port-groups based on Active System 800 deployment specification b. Tag the port-groups with appropriate VLANs as specified in the template c. Create iSCSI Port-groups and install / configure the MEM VIBs 8. Create a volume of the EqualLogic Storage Array a. The new volume is created per physical session based on the size specified in the Orchestration input. b.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 1. On-demand—VMFS Datastore Provision TBD Per Jerry Ness, need more detail around the missing task that a VMFS datastore LUN for the GOLD images must be initially created on the storage before the logical templates can be run. This orchestration can be executed on-demand when the session is in a Running state. 2.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 4.5 Updating Physical Templates To update cluster and standalone templates that require specific data before scheduling a template for cluster provisioning, perform the following steps: 1. Update the template for a blade server. (Updates the blade server count for cluster provisioning.) Figure 74. Updating Template for Blade Server 2. Save the template by Ctrl+S or by selecting the save icon on the thick client after making the changes. 3.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 77. Orchestration Input a. Double-click the Configure ESXi Server using PXE Boot orchestration to open it. b. Double-click the Orchestration Input method to provide other inputs to orchestration. Figure 78. Orchestration Input Table 6 lists and defines the available Orchestration Input parameters. Table 6. Orchestration Input Parameters Parameter Description ImageName Selects the ESXi image from the repository.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Parameter Description vCenterDatacenter vCenter data center to be used for provisioning. GoldDatastoreVolumeName Volume name consisting of baseline VM images that will be used for cloning new VMs. DatastoreVolumeSize Size in GB of the datastore to be provisioned on servers or a cluster. StoragePoolName Name of the pool on which the volume should be created for provisioning the datastore.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 5 Workload Provisioning Using Logical Templates 5.1 Two VMs with a VLAN The Two virtual machine with a VLAN Logical template can be used to create VM workloads by scheduling a logical template over existing physical resources sessions, to consume the compute and storage resources of specific physical components. Figure 80.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 5.2 Single Virtual Machine with VLAN The Single virtual machine with a VLAN Logical template can be used to create VM workloads by scheduling logical template over existing physical resources session, to consume the compute and storage resources of specific physical components. Figure 82.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 84. Remove the Association 3. Click Add and select the gold VM image to be associated with the VM object. Figure 85.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 6 Operation Center View—Administrative Operations 6.1 Managing Blades The following operations are provided on the Active System Manager Server Operation Center view to perform administrative tasks:   Power On Server—Used to power on the blade server using server iDRAC. Power Off Server—User to power off the blade server using server iDRAC. The migration of the VMs running on the server will be taken care by the VMware vMotion capability.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 87. Operation Center View To initiate the discovery of a VMware vCenter, various discovery elements and their corresponding attributes can be provided as shown below in the Discovery Configuration Setup wizard; steps for configuring the Discovery setup for a vCenter are detailed in the Discovery Configuration Setup section. 6.2.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 88. Clusters and Hosts (Example 1) Figure 89. Clusters and Hosts (Example 2) 6.2.2 VMware vSwitches Hosts vSwitches are also discovered and populated in the Operation Center view as part of the vCenter Discovery process. Figure 90. VMware vSwitches 6.2.3 VMware Datastores Datastores are one of the most important components of the VMware-based virtualized infrastructure.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 91. VMware Datastores 6.3 Managing EqualLogic Storage Table 7 lists and defines the members provided in the Active System Manager EqualLogic Storage Operation Center view. Table 7. EqualLogic Group Members Operation Description PoolCreate Creates a new Storage Pool on an EqualLogic Storage Array. PoolAddMember Adds a Storage Array to a given Storage Pool on an EqualLogic Storage Array.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 6.4 Managing Volume Table 8 lists and defines the operations provided in the Active System Manager EqualLogic Storage Operation Center view. The figure displays an example of EqualLogic group members. Table 8. EqualLogic Group Members Operation Description VolumeOffline Offlines a volume present on an EqualLogic Storage Array. VolumeOnline Onlines a volume present on an EqualLogic Storage Array.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 6.5 Setting Up Storage The following operations are provided on the Active System Manager EqualLogic Storage Operation Center view for performing administrative tasks:  Storage group-level supported operations  Storage member-level supported operations Figure 94. Storage Group-Level Supported Operations Table 9.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Table 10. Storage Member-Level Supported Operations Operation Description Input Parameter ConfigureRAIDPolicy Configures the required redundant array of independent disks (RAID) level on an EqualLogic Storage Array. raidType {raid6 | raid10 | raid50} UpgradeFirmware Upgrades the firmware image on an EqualLogic Storage Array. imageName—Image from repository.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 96. Resource Allocation by Sessions Report 7.2 Resource Allocation by Hosts Report This report provides resource allocation data for hosts on which some virtual resources are provisioned in running sessions. This report displays CPU and memory allocations grouped by hosts, and can be used to view a current usage of the CPU and memory allocation per host for a data center.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 7.3 Resource Allocation by Groups Report This report provides resource allocation data for virtual resources that are utilized in sessions owned by members of a group (grouped by group name). This report also captures the current allocation by groups and works for CPU and memory allocation. The figure displays an example of a Resource Allocation by Groups report. Figure 98. Resource Allocation by Groups Report 7.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 99. Top Ten Resource Allocation Report 7.5 Top Ten Resource Utilization Report This report is similar to the Top Ten Resource Allocation report; however, this report provides utilization data as opposed to allocation. The required data is made available using a monitoring method that continuously keeps polling the device, VM, or cluster for current utilization data.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 100. Top Ten Resource Utilization Report 7.6 VM Utilization by Session Report This report provides the most recent data for CPU and memory utilized on any VM, grouped by sessions. This data is available in terms of percentage with respect to the allocated limits. The figure displays an example of a VM Utilization by Session Report.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 101. VM Utilization by Session Report 7.7 Host Utilization (Consolidated) Report This report displays information about how much capacity is being utilized on a host by all running VMs, with respect to the allocated capacity. This report is available for CPU and memory attributes. The figure displays an example of a Host Utilization (Consolidated) report. Figure 102.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 7.8 Cluster Utilization (Consolidated) Report This report is similar to the Host Utilization (Consolidated) report, except that it works for clusters. The figure displays an example of a Cluster Utilization (Consolidated) report. Figure 103. Cluster Utilization (Consolidated) Report 7.9 Storage Utilization (Consolidated) Report This report provides storage utilization as a percentage of allocated storage for clusters.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 7.10 CPU and Memory Utilization Showback Report This report provides CPU and memory utilization of Hosts in percentage over a period of given time (e.g. Weekly, Daily, and Hourly). The figure displays an example of a CPU and Memory Utilization Showback report. Figure 105. CPU & Memory Utilization Showback Report You can view the data for a specific time interval (with a minimum time interval limit of ten minutes between two data points).
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) A Appendix A—Deployment Activities A.1 Verifying Active System Manager Services To verify that all Active System Manager services are up and running, perform the following steps: 1. Log in as the user who installed the services. 2. Run the following script to display the current status of all services, including the Oracle database status: cd asm-galeforce/gf/sbin ./gfstatus.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) B Appendix B—Build of Materials Table 11 displays a list of build of materials, grouped by Resource Adapters. Table 11.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) ID Description Workflows 6—Logical Logical template with two VMs connected to a VLAN Built-in orchestration. C Appendix C—Firmware and Software Base Lineup Table 13 displays a list of firmware and software base lineups, grouped by Hypervisor blades. Table 13. Firmware and Software Base Lineup—Hypervisor Blades Resource Active System Manager 7.0 BIOS 1.6.0 CPLD 1.0.5 iDRAC7 Enterprise 1.35.35 LCC (Life Cycle Controller) 2 1.1.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Table 15 displays a list of firmware and software base lineups, grouped by chassis, storage, and switches. Table 15. Firmware and Software Base Lineup—Chassis, Storage, Switches Resource Active System Manager 7.0 CMC 4.31 PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator 8.3.17.2 8.3.17.3 Force10 S4810 (LAN) 8.3.12.1 Force10 S55 (OOB) 8.3.5.3 EqualLogic PS Arrays 6.0.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Resource Active System Manager 7.0 Dell OpenManage Plug-in for vCenter 1.6.0.33 Dell SAN HQ 2.5 EPA VMware vCloud Connector 1.5 Dell OpenManage Essentials 1.1 Dell OpenManage Repository Manager 1.4.113 D Appendix D—Adding New ESXi PXE Images This appendix describes the following topics related to adding new ESXi images:    Preparing the VMware ESXi 5.x Installation Media Modifying the ESXi boot.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 107. Downloading the ISO Image 7. On your Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server, simply extract the contents of the installation ISO into a new directory using the following commands (as the root user): # mkdir /tmp/dellISO # mkdir /tftpboot/esxi5.1_dell # mount -o loop VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64Dell_Customized_RecoveryCD_A00.iso tmp/dellISO # cp -fr /tmp/dellISO/* /var/lib/tftpboot/esxi5.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) scsi_aac.v00 --- scsi_adp.v00 --- scsi_aic.v00 --- scsi_fni.v00 --scsi_hps.v00 --- scsi_ips.v00 --- scsi_lpf.v00 --- scsi_meg.v00 --scsi_meg.v01 --- scsi_meg.v02 --- scsi_mpt.v01 --- scsi_mpt.v02 --scsi_rst.v00 --- uhci_usb.v00 --- tools.t00 --- scsi_qla.v01 --- dell_con.v00 -- xorg.v00 --- imgdb.tgz --- imgpayld.tgz build= updated=0 # chmod +w /var/lib/tftpboot/esxi5.1_dell/* D.3 Adding a PXE Menu Entry Create a file named “pxe.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 2. Create a file named “ks_template.cfg” inside the image directory on the HTTP server.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) E Appendix E—Adding New ESXi ISO Images This appendix describes the following topics related to adding new ESXi images:    Preparing the VMware ESXi 5.x Installation Media Modifying the ESXi boot.cfg Configuration File Configuring the HTTP ServerCreating a Kickstart Configuration File E.1 Preparing the VMware ESXi 5.x Installation Media To prepare the VMware ESXi 5.x installation media, perform the following steps: 3. Log in to www.dell.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) # chmod +w /home/delladmin/ISOBootImages/esxi5.1_dell_ISOBoot_New/* Note: If the newly added image need to replace the existing image, then execute following commands: mv /home/delladmin/ISOBootImages/esxi5.1_dell_ISOBoot_New /home/delladmin/ISOBootImages/esxi5.1_dell_ISOBoot E.2 Modifying the ESXi boot.cfg Configuration File To confirm that the installation source is not in the root of the TFTP server, perform the following steps: 1.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) 1. Create the image directory on the HTTP server base location: # cd /home/delladmin/ISOBootImages/esxi5.1_dell_ISOBoot_New Note: The name of the directory needs to be same as the image directory created on the TFTP server. 2. Create a file named “ks.cfg” inside the image directory.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) o ESXi license Key. The value is added if the license key information is available in the resource adapter configuration file. Name of the Local datastore 3. Copy the ks.cfg file to the HTTP Server base location. mkdir –p /var/www/html/esxi5.1_dell_ISOBoot_New/ cp /home/delladmin/ISOBootImages/esxi5.1_dell_ISOBoot_New/ks.cfg /var/www/html/esxi5.1_dell_ISOBoot_New/ks.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) F Appendix F— Planning Worksheet Table 18. Equipment Out of Band Management IP Address Configuration IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway Username Password Chassis 1 CMC Chassis 2 CMC iDRAC for all M620 Force10 S4810 Switch1 Force10 S4810 Switch2 EqualLogic Storage Array Group Management EqualLogic Storage Array Group on iSCSI Network Active System Manager Appliance vCenter F.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) F.2 VLAN for IOA Configuration Traffic Type VLAN Management vMotion VM Workload(s) iSCSI Management / Traffic VMware Workloads 1. Administrator needs to create a volume on EqualLogic storage array manually 2. This volume needs to contain the base line VMs that will be used for creating the VM workloads Note: The base line VMs needs to have VMware Tools installed.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) The VM appliance is created with one vNIC. The vNIC needs to be in the Hypervisor Management Network. G.4 Configuring PXE Setup with Embedded DHCP Server The DHCP Services needs to be enabled on separate network interface on the appliance. Before configuring the DHCP Services, add a new Virtual NIC on the appliance using the VMware vSphere client and restart the appliance. G.4.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) The ESXi 5.1 customized image is embedded inside the appliance at /var/lib/tftpboot/esxi51._dell. The image is configured to create a kickstart file dynamically based on the IP address provided in the Active System Manager inventory. If the ESXi host is configured to learn the IP address through DHCP (configured through orchestration), and then there is no need to update the Server IP Address information in the Active System Manager inventory.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Figure 109. Provisioning Properties Q4 Is there a way to revert a template or import the original template? A4 The original templates are available on the appliance under folder $HOME/DefaultTemplates Also as best practice: a. You should make a copy of the template and make the required modification in the cloned template. b. Keep the copy of the original templates by exporting them locally on a client machine and importing it back as needed.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) Q8 What about images and firmwares released after this release of Active System Manager 7.0? A8 Images and firmware versions that are released after Active System Manager 7.0 should work but this should be validated with the solution.
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Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800) A17 Active System Manager 7.0 supports VMware ESXi server imaging and workload provisioning for VMware VM. Microsoft Hyper-V is not supported with Active System Manager 7.0. Q18 How to change the hostname of the Active System Manager Server? A18 Steps to change hostname of the Active System Manager server – a. Log in to the Active System Manager as the root user. b.