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Contents
Overview
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2 Other Documents You May Need...................................................................... 5
Active System Manager Appliance Requirements
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Hypervisor and Management Requirements........................................................................................6
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.
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Other Documents You May Need
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:
Active System Manager runs as a virtual appliance on a Dell server configured with the following
hardware and software:
ResourcesMinimum Requirement
vCPUs2
Memory8 GB
Disk Space40 GB
Hypervisor and Management Requirements
Software ComponentSupported Version
VMware vSphere
•5.5
•5.1
3
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
(SCVMM)
•2012 R2
•2012
Browser Requirements
To display Active System Manager (ASM) correctly, a system must have a minimum 1024 x 768 screen
resolution and a Web browser that meets minimum requirements based on the operating system.
Cent OS 6.5Not SupportedVersion 26 and LaterVersion 32 and Later
Not SupportedVersion 26 and LaterVersion 32 and Later
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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 ComponentFirmware Version
Windows
RHEL6.5
CentOS6.5
Supported Hypervisor
Software ComponentFirmware Version
Windows
•2012 R2
•2012
•2008 R2
•2012
•2012 R2
VMware
•5.5
•5.1
Supported Guest OS
Software ComponentFirmware Version
Windows
RHEL6.5
CentOS6.5
*
Windows 2008 is supported only through cloning.
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•2012
•2012 R2
•2008 R2
•2008
*
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.