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Active System Manager Release 8.2 Installation Guide

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What’s New in this Release

Active System Manager 8.2 is focused on expanding capabilities around workload deployment, adding new capabilities around managing existing environments, and improving the granularity of information shown around the current state of environments under management.

The highlights of Active System Manager release 8.2 include the following:
  • Open Platform Support that includes:
    • Application module SDK and multi-application support
    • Architectural work to support modularity and to enable a plug-in SDK framework for resource modules, starting with the application level.
    • Creating Puppet-based application modules and importing the modules in the ASM templates.
  • Improved user interface.
  • Expanded infrastructure and service level monitoring:
    • Infrastructure health monitoring includes chassis, servers, I/O modules, storage devices, and networking devices.
    • Service health provides an aggregated view based on services deployed to provide a window into service level health.
  • Port view virtualization
    • A graphical view that provides a mapping of physical to virtual infrastructure and clear notification of connectivity issues.
  • Brownfield support to facilitate installing ASM into the existing environment
    • Includes support for importing existing ESXi hosts and clusters as ASM resources, and the ability use them without requiring ASM to have originally provisioned them. It also enables key features including infrastructure level health and firmware updates.
  • Service deployment enhancements that allow:
    • Validating resources at the template level that is even before the service is deployed.
  • Support for deploying bare-metal operating system on certain interface cards using the virtual media available on the server. For such cards, booting from PXE is not required.
  • Added static IP support for non-DHCP environment or if you want to use static IP for your deployment.
  • Improved post OS configuration and flexibility in provisioning SD with RAID.
  • New hardware support for planned Blueprint Reference Architectures (RAs) including virtualization and cloud.
This release also includes compatibility support for the following:
  • Dell Storage SC9000 arrays, Dell EqualLogic PS6610
  • Expanded support for Intel 10Gb interface cards
  • Support for VSAN Ready Node configuration for the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server platform. For more information on VSAN Ready Node configuration, see https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/pdf/vi_vsan_rn_guide.pdf.
  • Added support for RHEL 7.1 and 7.2
  • Added support for CentOS 7.1 and 7.2

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