Active System Manager Version 7.
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Contents 1 Overview.................................................................................................................4 2 Other Documents You May Need...................................................................... 5 3 Active System Manager Appliance Requirements.......................................... 6 Hypervisor and Management Requirements........................................................................................6 Browser Requirements....................................
Overview 1 Active System Manager (ASM) is Dell’s unified management product that provides a comprehensive infrastructure and workload automation solution for IT administrators and teams. ASM simplifies and automates the management of heterogeneous environments, enabling IT to respond more rapidly to dynamic business needs.
Other Documents You May Need 2 Go to http://www.dell.com/asmdocs for additional supporting documents such as: • Dell Active System Manager version 7.6 User’s Guide • Dell Active System Manager version 7.6 Release Notes • Dell Active System Manager version 7.6 Quick Installation Guide For more information about best practices, Dell solutions, and service, see Dell Active System Manager page on Dell Techcenter: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/converged-infrastructure/w/wiki/4318.
Active System Manager Appliance Requirements 3 Active System Manager runs as a virtual appliance on a Dell server configured with the following hardware and software: Resources Minimum Requirement vCPUs 2 Memory 8 GB Disk Space 40 GB Hypervisor and Management Requirements Software Component Supported Version VMware vSphere • 5.5 • 5.
Operating System Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Not Supported Version 26 and Later Version 32 and Later Cent OS 6.
4 Supported Resources This section provides information about the resources supported by Active System Manager (ASM). The information has been segmented based on the resource types. Supported Bare Metal OS Software Component Firmware Version Windows • 2012 R2 • 2012 • 2008 R2 RHEL 6.5 CentOS 6.5 Supported Hypervisor Software Component Firmware Version Windows • 2012 • 2012 R2 • 5.5 • 5.
Supported Dell PowerEdge Chassis PowerEdge M1000e, version CMC 4.5 Supported PowerEdge Servers and Firmware Matrix The following table provides information about the supported servers. Resource BIOS From iDRAC To LC From To From To Dell PowerEdge M420 2.0.23 2.2.2 1.57. 57 1.57.57 1.3 1.4 Dell PowerEdge M520 2.0.23 2.1.2 1.57. 57 1.57.57 1.3 1.4 Dell PowerEdge M620 2.1.6 2.2.2 1.57. 57 1.57.57 1.3 1.4 Dell PowerEdge M820 1.7.3 2.0.24 1.57. 57 1.57.57 1.3 1.
Resource Firmware Supported From To Cisco UCS B200 M2 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B230 M2 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B200 M3 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B420 M3 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B22 M3 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Supported Dell Storage and Firmware Matrix The following table provides information about the supported storage resources. Resources Firmware Supported From To Dell PS4100 7.0 7.0 Dell PS6100 7.0 7.0 Dell PS6110 7.0 7.0 Dell PS6210 7.0 7.0 Dell PS6510 7.0 7.
Resources Firmware Supported From NetApp FAS 62xx (NFS Only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) To ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) Supported Networks and Firmware Matrix The following table provides information about the supported Networks. Resource Firmware Supported Dell Networking PCT 7024 5.1.2.3 Dell Networking S4810 9.3.0.0 Dell Networking S5000 9.3.0.0 Dell Networking S6000 9.3.0.0 Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator switch 9.2.0.0 Dell Networking MXL 10/40GbE blade switch 9.2.0.
Resource Firmware Supported Broadcom 57840-k Quad-Port 10GbE Mezzanine 7.8 Broadcom 57840 Quad-Port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter 7.8 QLE 2562 8Gb FC 03.20.06 QME 2572 8Gb Mezzanine FC 03.20.06 QLE 2662 16Gb FC 03.20.06 QME 2662 16Gb Mezzanine FC 03.20.
