Dell Active System Manager Owner's Manual

Active System Manager Version 7.6 Quick Installation Guide

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Contents

Overview

About this Document............................................................................................................................5

What is New in this Release.................................................................................................................. 5

Accessing Online Help.......................................................................................................................... 6

Other Documents You May Need........................................................................................................ 6

Licensing................................................................................................................................................6

Important Note...................................................................................................................................... 7

ASM Port and Protocol Information..................................................................................................... 7

2 Installation and Quick Start................................................................................ 8

Information Prerequisites......................................................................................................................8

Installing Active System Manger........................................................................................................... 8

.................................................................................................................5

Deployment Prerequisites ..............................................................................................................8

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Prerequisites............................................... 11

Deploying ASM from VMware vSphere Client.............................................................................. 11

Deploying ASM using SCVMM.......................................................................................................12

Deploying ASM on Hyper-V host..................................................................................................13

3 Configuring ASM Virtual Appliance.................................................................15

Changing Dell Administrator Password..............................................................................................15

Configuring Static IP Address in the Virtual Appliance...................................................................... 15

Configuring ASM Virtual Appliance as PXE Boot Responder.............................................................16

Configure DHCP on Windows 2012 DHCP Server.......................................................................16

Configure DHCP on Windows 2008 DHCP Server...................................................................... 17

Configuring DHCP for Linux......................................................................................................... 19

Deploying WinPE on the Virtual Appliance........................................................................................ 22

Create a Repository with Windows Installation Media on ASM Appliance................................. 22

Creating WinPE Image and Updating Install Media for Windows 2012 and Windows 2012

R2................................................................................................................................................... 23

Copying WinPE and Install Media to ASM Repository and Updating Permissions..................... 24

Importing Linux ISOs on the Virtual Appliance for Operating System Deployment........................ 25

4 Customizing Virtual Machine Templates for VMware and Hyper-V.........26

Customizing Virtual Machine Templates or Virtual Machines for VMware or Hyper-V...................26

Customizing Linux Template..............................................................................................................28

Customizing Windows Template....................................................................................................... 28

Configuring ASM Virtual Appliance for NetApp Storage Support

.............29

Adding NetApp Ruby SDK...................................................................................................................29

Enable HTTP or HTTPs for NFS share................................................................................................ 30

Configuring NetApp Storage Component.........................................................................................30

6 Completing Initial Configuration.................................................................... 32

Overview

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.

IT organizations today are often burdened by complex data centers that contain a mix of technologies from different vendors and cumbersome operational tasks for delivering services while managing the underlying infrastructure. These tasks are typically performed through multiple management consoles for different physical and virtual resources, which can dramatically slow down service deployment.

The new ASM features an enhanced user interface that provides an intuitive, end-to-end infrastructure and workload automation experience through a unified console. This speeds up workload delivery and streamlines infrastructure management, enabling IT organizations to accelerate service delivery and time to value for customers.

This document contains information about virtual appliance and software requirements of ASM, and the resources supported by ASM such as chassis, servers, storage, network switches, and adapters

About this Document

This document version is updated for ASM, version 7.6.

What is New in this Release

• Support for Hyper-V Compellent (Fibre Channel).

• VMs and Application support for Hyper-V or SCVMM.

• Support for ESXi NetApp Storage.

• Ability to clone a configuration of a server and apply it to another server.

• iSCSI and Fibre Channel boot support for Windows and Linux.

• iSCSI and Fibre Channel boot service migration support for Windows and Linux.

• Support for Windows 2008 R2 deployment.

• Ability to clone Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Machine from virtual machine or template.

• Template updates including new template for SQL Server Windows 2012 Support.

• Service Mobility — Capability to migrate server’s BIOS, NICs, storage connectivity, and assigned identity information to another server in a designated server pool.

• Flexible Configurations — Provides multiple implementation choices for both network card and fabric configuration.

• Service Lifecycle Enhancements supports:

– Ability to scale up storage, hosts, and virtual machines.

– Ability to retry and deploy a failed service.

Accessing Online Help

ASM online help system provides context-sensitive help available from every page in ASM user interface.

After you log in to ASM user interface, you can access the online help in any of the following ways:

• To open context-sensitive online help for the active page, click ?, and then click Help.

• To open context-sensitive online help for a dialog box, click ? in the dialog box.

Additionally, in the online help, use the Enter search items option in the Table of Contents to search for a specific topic or keyword.

Licensing

ASM licensing is based on the total number of managed resources, except for the VMware vCenter and Windows SCVMM instances

ASM 7.6 supports following license types:

• Trail License — A Trial license can be procured though the account team and it supports up to 25 resources for 90 days.

• Standard License — A Standard license grants full access.

You will receive an e-mail from customer service with the instructions of downloading ASM. The license file is attached to that email.

If you are using ASM for the first time, you must upload the license file through the Initial Setup wizard. To upload and activate subsequent licenses, click Settings → Virtual Appliance Management.

After uploading an initial license, subsequent uploads replace the existing license.

Important Note

Engaging support requires that all prerequisites are fulfilled by customer or deployment team. Third party hardware support is not provided by Dell services. Discovery, inventory and usage of third party hardware must be in the expected state as described in the prerequisites and configuring sections of this guide.

ASM Port and Protocol Information

The following ports and communication protocols used by ASM to transfer and receive data.

Table 1. ASM Port and Protocol Information

Ports Protocols Port Type Direction Use

22 SSH TCP Inbound /

Outbound

23 Telnet TCP Outbound I/O Module

53 DNS TCP Outbound DNS Server

67, 68 DHCP UDP Outbound DHCP Server

69 TFTP UDP Inbound Firmware Updates

I/O Module

80, 8080 HTTP TCP Inbound /

Outbound

123 NTP UDP Outbound Time Synchronization

162, 11620 SNMP UDP Inbound SNMP Synchronization

443 HTTPS TCP Inbound /

Outbound

443, 4433 WS-MAN TCP Outbound iDRAC and CMC Communication

129, 445 CIFS TCP Inbound /

Outbound

2049 NFS TCP Inbound /

Outbound

HTTP Communication

Secure HTTP Communication

Back up program date to CIFS share

Back up program data to NIFS share

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 Client or SCVMM. Only one instance of ASM should be installed within a network environment. Exceeding this limit can cause conflicts in device communication.

Information Prerequisites

Before you begin the installation process:

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

• If you want to deploy the ASM virtual appliance on VMware vCenter, make sure that VMware vCenter Server and VMware vSphere Client are currently running.

• If you want to deploy the and running and Hyper-V host on which ASM virtual appliance deployed is already installed on 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).

• Determine the host on which the ASM virtual appliance will be installed. You can use any host managed by VMware vCenter or Hyper-V manager that has network connectivity with your out-ofband (OOB), management, and potentially iSCSI networks. This is required for discovery to complete successfully.

ASM virtual appliance on Windows Hyper-V, make sure SCVMM Instance is up

CAUTION: interruptions or shut downs affects the overall functionality.

The ASM virtual appliance functions as a regular virtual machine. Therefore, any

Installing Active System Manger

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

Deployment Prerequisites

Specification Prerequisite

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 PXE network in which the appliance is

Specification Prerequisite

deployed. It is recommended to configure the virtual appliance directly on the PXE network, and not on the external network.

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

• The DHCP server is fully functional with appropriate PXE settings to PXE boot images from ASM in your deployment network.

Firmware and BIOS Requirements Make sure all the resources are configured with the

firmware versions listed in the section Supported

Resources

PowerEdge M1000e Chassis, blade server, and IO aggregators

Dell PowerEdge Hypervisor Servers Server iDRAC is configured and has the out-of-

Dell PowerEdge Servers

• Chassis Management Controller (CMC) for M1000e chassis is configured and has the management IP address and login credentials assigned.

• Server iDRAC and IOA is configured and has the management IP address and login credentials assigned using CMC management interface.

band IP address and login credentials.

• Dell PowerEdge Servers are configured and have the management IP address and login credentials assigned.

: The user name (root) and password

NOTE required.

• Any device being used in the boot order, such as C: Drive or NICs, must already be enabled in the boot order. This applies when booting to SD Card, Hard Disk, or FC, which are listed as C: in boot order or PXE and iSCSI, which are listed as NICs in the boot order. ASM will enable the supporting device connectivity and adjust the boot order, but cannot enable/disable device names in the boot order.

• Before performing Fibre Channel boot from SAN, a server must be configured with the QLogic fiber channel card, which is configured with the appropriate scan selection. To verify this in the BIOS and QLogic device settings, press F2 for System Setup, and then go to Device Settings → <Target QLogic Fibre

Channel adapter name> → Fibre Channel Target Configuration

select "First LUN".

→ Boot Scan, and then

Dell PowerConnect 7024 switches

• The management IP address is configured for the switches.

• ASM creates the virtual machine (VM) traffic VLANs dynamically.

Specification Prerequisite

• Users have access to the switches with passwords enabled..

• Switches have SSH connectivity enabled.

Dell Force10 S4810 switches (Top-of-Rack [ToR])

Dell 8 | 4 I/O modules

EqualLogic Storage Array

• The management IP address is configured for the ToR switches.

• Any VLAN which is dynamically provisioned by ASM must exist on the ToR switch.

• Server facing ports must be in hybrid mode.

• Server facing ports must be in switchport mode.

• Server facing ports must be configured for spanning tree portfast.

• If DCB settings are used, it must be properly configured on the switch for converged traffic.

• The management IP address is configured for the Brocade switches.

• The management and group IP addresses are configured for Storage Array.

• All storage array members are added to the group.

: The Equallogic management

NOTE interface must be configured to enable dedicated management network.

• EqualLogic array must have a SNMP community name set to "public".

Compellent Storage Array .

VMware vCenter 5.1 or 5.5

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

PXE Setup

• The management IP address is configured for Storage Array

• All storage array members are added to the group.

• VMware vCenter 5.1 or 5.5 is configured and accessible through the management and hypervisor management network.

• Appropriate licenses are deployed on the VMware vCenter.

• See System Center Virtual Machine Manager

(SCVMM) Prerequisites.

• The details of PXE setup is described in the

Configuring ASM Virtual Appliance as PXE Boot Responder section.

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