Dell Active System Manager Version 7.1 User Manual

1 Active System Manager Solution Guide Active System 1000 for VMware Version 7.1

10 Management components hosted in the management infrastructure Dell Active System Manager VMware vCenter Server Compellent Enterprise Manager Dell

100 d. Add the new VLAN ID added in the running session manually to the list of Networks by going into the Networking Configuration tab available un

101 Attach Server Profile Figure 38. g. Execute the Dell Server custom operation VMware - Update ESXi Server Port Group VLAN Info to configure the

11 Active System Manager Deployment The following topics describe how to deploy the Active System Manager: • Deploying OVF • Assigning IP Address t

12 listed in section • Appendix C—Firmware and Software Base Lineup For the Active System 1000 chassis, blade server, and IO aggregators: • CMC for

13 Importing OVF from the vSphere Client To import OVF from the vSphere Client, perform the following steps: 1. On the vSphere Client menu, click Fi

14 4. Select the appropriate datastore name where VM needs to be hosted. 5. Select the disk format. Thin provisioning is supported and recommended

15 ./stopasm.sh Make sure that all of the services are stopped before continuing. 2. Change the passwords using the standard Linux command passwd t

16 2. Login as root user. Root user credentials are given in Table 5 - Key Access Credentials. 3. Go to System ->Preferences ->Network Conne

17 5. Selecting the Edit button on Network connections Wizard will open up the following dialog. For updating the IP address, select the IPv4 settin

18 8. Once this is done, open the terminal by clicking on Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal 9. Then execute the command “/etc/init.d

19 3. In the License Deployment page, copy and paste the content of the license file provided in the License File text box. Click Submit to log on t

2 This document is for informational purposes only and may contain typographical errors and technical inaccuracies. The content is provi

20 cd $HOME/asm-galeforce/gf/sbin ./startasm.sh NOTE: The Active System Manager services must not be started by user “root” Stopping Services Follo

21 Lab: DEMO Status: Running Domain Services ---------------- 1. Domain : System (Id: 1) Description: ----------------------------------------

22 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 t

23 2. Create the account setup. Select button “Setup…” 3. Select button “Add” 4. Provide the name of the connection and IP Address of the applia

24 5. Select “OK” and close the “Setting up Account” dialog box. 6. Select the account created in earlier step 7. Provide the username and the p

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26 Active System Manager Setup This section captures the sequence of steps which should be followed within Active System Manager for managing deployi

27 Discovering Active System 1000 Components Discovery of the Active System 1000 components includes: • Dell M1000e Chassis • Dell M620 Blade serve

28 • In general for all the devices, when defining names and provisioning parameters, you should avoid using the following special characters: @ # $

29 1. Select the individual components and provide the required IP address/login credentials. • Assettag—Required. Unique key or name used to impo

3 Contents Introduction to the Active System 1000 Solution ... 8 Audience ...

30 2. Provide the following element properties for the Dell Compellent Storage Array system: • Assettag—Required. Unique key or name for the Compe

31 3. For Dell Force10 Switch (ToR) discovery, provide the following element properties and discovery attributes: • Assettag—Required. Unique key

32 4. For Brocade 6510 Fibre Switch (ToR) discovery, provide the following element properties and discovery attributes: • Assettag—Required. Uniqu

33 2. For VMware vCenter discovery, provide the following system properties: • Name—Required. Unique key or name for VMware vCenter which is used

34 3. After completing the Active System 1000 components discovery, update the following information manually in the Active System Manager for all b

35 Software Repositories in Active System Manager Appliance Configuring the following repositories is described in the Active System Manager User’s G

36 NOTE: User needs to copy the Windows 2012 System Center ISO image under /var/nfs folder on the ASM appliance with the same name WS2012_DC.iso.This

37 Host: ASM server IPAddress BaseDirPath: Image Base Directory file location exists at tftpboot location. For example: Dell/IOM TFTPROOTPATH: TFTP R

38 Password: Repository server password Base Directory: Repository server base directory path where Brocade switch image files are copied. If image f

39 /var/lib/tftpboot/configurationFiles/Brocade/6510/<assetTag> then base directory path value would be ‘/var/lib/tftpboot’. 6. Click Discover

4 Configuring Networks ... 44 Accessing the Network C

40 images are located at /var/lib/tftpboot/images/Dell/Force10/<assetTag> then base directory path value would be ‘/var/lib/tftpboot’. 6. Clic

41 4. Using the drop-down menu, select VMware Baseline Images Repository and click Next. 5. Update the VMware vCenter host (IP address), username

42 7. Right-click the selected discovered element, select Set Type > Image File, and click Finish. 8. Click Associate to associate the selected

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44 Configuring Networks This section discusses configuring networks required for Orchestration and end-to-end configuration. The various networks ha

45 Editing an existing network Figure 4. Configuring Static Network If the static network ranges have to be configured, then selecting the “configu

46 Ip Address range Figure 6. In order to configure the existing ip range, select the already configured range and select “Edit IP Range” button to

47 Following is the mapping of the Default Server Template networks with the networks configured on the ESXi server Table 7. Default ESXi Network Ma

48 Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning Figure 7. For more information about server templates and profiles, see the Active System Manager

49 Physical Templates and Orchestration This section describes the following topics related to physical templates and orchestration: • Multiple Blad

5 Storage Utilization (Consolidated) Report ... 79 CPU and Memory Utilization Sho

50 While scheduling the template, user would be prompted to provide values for the following orchestration parameters: Global Orchestration paramet

51 servers ASMServerIPAddress Mandatory ASM appliance IP address ImageName Mandatory Selects the ESXi image from the repository. The orche

52 When this template is scheduled, this template performs the following sequence of operations: 1. Reserves single or multiple VLANs for VM traffi

53 Navigate to Cluster → Edit Settings → vSphere HA dialog box and select the Enable: Disallow VM power on operations that violate availability const

54 8. Deselect Status. 9. Click OK. 10. Click Close When this template is scheduled, this template performs the following sequence of operations:

55 Associated Orchestrations with Cluster and Standalone Host Templates Each physical template has three orchestrations (Figure 11 13) associated wit

56 c. Execute the On-Demand orchestration. Alternatively, if you do not want to update the global parameter: a. Disable (uncheck) the ClusterVolume

57 • Allows access to specific cluster or standalone ESXi hosts, as applicable. • Creates a VMFS datastore on a cluster or standalone ESXI hosts, a

58 4. Select the VLAN Component, click the Inventory tab, and update the VLANCount with the number of VLANs to be provisioned. The VLAN defined in

59 Workload Provisioning Using Logical Templates This section describes the following workload provisioning options using the Logical templates: • P

6 Tables Table 1. Solution Component ... 9 Table 2. Active Syst

60 • Once the VMs are provisioned the user can also launch custom applications as applicable using custom methods from Active System Manager- Window

61 1. Select the VM object in the template and click the Image Files tab. 2. Select the already associated image file and click Remove to remove t

62 3. Click Add and select the gold VM image to be associated with the VM object. Customizing the Guest OS (Optional) Active System Manager support

63 c. WindowsTimeZone d. GuestCUstomizationRequired e. GuestWindowsDomainAdministrator Customizing the Guest OS Figure 15.

64 Operation Center View—Administrative Operations This section describes the administrative operations available in the Operation Center view: • Ma

65 Power On Server This method is used to power on the blade servers using server iDRAC. Update firmware on server This method applies firmware DUP

66 Force10 ToR Switch view Figure 18. Table 10. Force10 ToR Switch operations Operation Description Configure Switch This method is used to upg

67 Brocade Switch view Figure 19. Table 11. Brocade Switch operations Operation Description Configure Brocade Switch This method is used to upgra

68 VMware Clusters view Figure 20. Table 12. VMware Cluster Operations Operation Description Add DataStore to an existing cluster This method add

69 VMware Host view Figure 21. Table 13. VMware Hosts operations Operation Description Add DataStore to Host This method is used to add an exis

7 Figures Security Management—Users and Groups ... 26 Figure 1. Adding System Details ...

70 VMware Virtual Machines VMware Virtual Machines, along with their attributes, are discovered and populated in the Active System Manager Operation

71 VMware Datastores VMware Datastores, along with their attributes, are discovered and populated in the Active System Manager Operation Center view.

72 Dashboard Reports The Active System Manager Dashboard displays allocation and utilization graphs for various resources like VM, cluster, host, sto

73 Resource Allocation by Hosts Report This report provides resource allocation data for hosts on which some virtual resources are provisioned in run

74 Resource Allocation by Groups Report Figure 26. Top Ten Resource Allocation Report This report includes three sub-options for different grouping

75 Top Ten Resource Allocation Report Figure 27. Top Ten Resource Utilization Report This report is similar to the Top Ten Resource Allocation repo

76 Top Ten Resource Utilization Report Figure 28. VM Utilization by Session Report This report provides the most recent data for CPU and memory ut

77 Figure 2930 displays an example of a VM Utilization by Session Report. VM Utilization by Session Report Figure 29. Host Utilization (Consolidate

78 Figure 30 displays an example of a Host Utilization (Consolidated) report. Host Utilization (Consolidated) Report Figure 30. Cluster Utilization

79 Storage Utilization (Consolidated) Report This report provides storage utilization as a percentage of allocated storage for clusters. Figure 32 di

8 Introduction to the Active System 1000 Solution Today, many IT organizations are missing deadlines or cannot respond fast enough to customer demand

80 Figure 33 displays an example of a CPU and Memory Utilization Showback report. CPU & Memory Utilization Showback Report Figure 33. You can v

81 Reset Zoom Figure 34.

82 Appendix A—Deployment Activities Verifying Active System Manager Services To verify that all Active System Manager services are up and running, p

83 Appendix B—Build of Materials Table 10 displays a list of build of materials, grouped by Resource Adapters. Table 16. Build of Material—Resource

84 Appendix C—Firmware and Software Base Lineup The following table lists the minimum recommended firmware/software versions. Table 18. Firmware and

85 Device Revision Management VMs and Software Windows Server 2012 1.6.0 VMware vCenter 5.1 U1 (1064983) Compellent Enterprise Manager 6.3

86 Appendix E—Adding New ESXi ISO Images This appendix describes the following topics related to adding new ESXi images: • Download Image ISO • Mod

87 # mkdir /home/delladmin/ISOBootImages/esxi5.1_dell_ISOBoot_New # mount -o loop VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64-Dell_Customized_Recov

88 Creating a Kickstart Configuration File To create a kickstart configuration file, perform the following steps: 1. Create the image directory on t

89 o ESXi license Key. The value is added if the license key information is available in the resource adapter configuration file. o Name of the Loc

9 Technical Documentation The Dell Active System Manager documentation enables you to better understand your current Active Infrastructure, its depl

90 Appendix G— Planning Worksheet Out of Band Management IP Address Configuration Equipment IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway Username Password Ch

91 • 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 Too

92 Appendix I—FAQs 1. The orchestrations assume that Port Channel 2 is configured on the switches. If not, you get a failure indicated by red links

93 • Operation center view • Link information Synchronize process discovers only the Operation center view hierarchy. 5. SSI properties will be

94 Appendix B—Build of Materials. Images and firmware versions that are released after Active System Manager 7.1 should work but this should be valid

95 types and instances before they can be used for provisioning various resources in the environment. Refer section Updating Repository Elements for

96 18. Can I remove a server from a session, to either free up the unused servers or to removing servers that have gone bad. No. This is not a suppo

97 template should be a subset of VLANs defined on the VLAN component in ASM template. 25. Does ASM configure NTP on the ESXi host? NTP is not con

98 • Total of 4 sessions, i.e. 16 VMs can be scheduled at a time. To workaround this, provide value (in %) to the 'Over Subscription' prop

99 33. How do I use the Gold/Base VM ? Go to ASM logical template , Click on VirtualMachine resource type , Click on Add button associate the discov