Solution Guide

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800)
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1.5. Active System 800-Supported Configurations
Table 2 lists the Active System Manager solution for the Active System 800-supported configurations.
Table 2. Active System 800-Supported Configurations
Configuration
Support
M1000e chassis and supported blade types (M620)
Support firmware images as per the
Active System Manager solution for Active
System 800
Dell Force10 Top-of-Rack (ToR) S4810 switches
Supported FTOS and base configuration will
be packaged in the virtual appliance. The
base configuration should be updated for
management IP and virtual LAN (VLAN) per
data center deployment need.
Dell EqualLogic PS6110 Storage Array
Supported firmware versions will be
packaged in the virtual appliance.
VMware vCenter 5.1 for virtual machine (VM) workloads
Supported ESXi 5.1 image will be bundled
in the virtual appliance
ESXi 5.1 installation support on blade servers
1.6. Deployment Options
The Active System Manager solution for Active System 800 is packaged as a virtual appliance and is
made available for VMware vCenter 5.1 and the Windows Server 2012 System Center Virtual Machine
Manager (SCVMM); see Table 3:
 Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for VMware—The disk format is VMware virtual
machine disk (VMDK).
 Hyper-V virtualization environment—The disk format is virtual hard disk (VHD) for
Hyper-V.
Table 3. Deployment Options
Virtual Appliance Filenames
Platform
Dell-ActiveSystemManager-7.0.0.xyztp_VMware.zip
VMware vCenter 5.1
Dell-ActiveSystemManager-7.0.0.xyztp_Microsoft.zip
Microsoft Server 2012 with Hyper-V