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Active System Manager Release 8.1.1 User’s Guide

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What’s New in this Release

Active System Manager release 8.1.1 consists primarily of additions to the compatibility matrix in support of Dell Blueprints and Reference Architectures, and a new plugin for VMware vRealize Orchestrator that uses the Applications Programming Interface (API) introduced earlier with ASM release 8.1.

The highlights of Active System Manager release 8.1.1 include the following:

  • A new Active System Manager plugin to VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), which enables ASM template deployment, scaling, and deprovisioning to be called from vRO orchestration workflows, or published to the vRealize Automation (vRA) service catalog.

  • Performance improvements to most of the ASM web application pages.

  • Compatibility matrix additions, including those detailed below, to support the Dell Blueprint Reference Architectures, including select reference architectures for the Virtualization, Cloud, and Unified Communications and Collaboration Blueprints.

ASM release 8.1.1 build 5079 is an update to ASM release 8.1.1. It contains fixes and enhancements that include:

  • Improvement to the Discovery wizard flow and Resource page on the ASM web interface.

  • Added log file size management.

  • Improvement for greater deployment consistency.

  • Configuration of ESXi High Availability (HA) after firmware updates.

  • Filtering of servers based on the server pool and resource state.

This release also includes compatibility support for the following:
  • Dell PowerEdge T630, PowerEdge T620, and PowerEdge C6320 servers
  • Dell Compellent iSCSI on non-converged fabrics
  • Cisco Nexus B22 Blade Fabric Extender

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