Active System Manager Release 8.1.1 User’s Guide

1. Modify the Component Name with a unique name, if required.

2. Under Storage Settings, configure the following:

   1. Select your Target EqualLogic iSCSI array.

   2. Enter the Storage Volume Name if required.

      • NOTE: Make sure that you enter the storage size for the first volume is large enough to support your Hyper-V host storage. However, the storage size for the second volume can be small because it is configured as a quorum volume if this host will be used for a Hyper-V cluster. The recommended second volume size is 512MB.

3. Verify the values for Storage Pool, Thin Provisioning, Snapshot Reserve %, Thin Min Reserve %, Thin growth Warning % , Thin growth Maximum %, Thin warning on threshold % , Thin warning on hard threshold %, and Multi-Host access of volume .

4. Click Save.

1. Modify the server Component Name with a unique name, if required.

2. Under Hardware Settings, configure the following:

   1. Retain the default selection of Local Hard Drive for Target Boot Device.

   2. Select a Server Pool that contains a target server from the drop-down list.

3. Under OS Settings, configure the following:

   1. Enter the Windows Product Key for the Hyper-V server.

   2. Select the Timezone and enter the IP address of the NTP Server for time synchronization.

   3. Select the Language and Keyboard inputs if you want to change the default values.

   4. Enter the Domain Name and FQ Domain Name to which you want to add the Hyper-V host.

   5. Enter the Domain Admin Username and Domain Admin Password to add the Hyper-V host to the domain. Enter the domain admin password to confirm.

   6. Enter the Administrator password that you want to configure the deployed OS. Reenter the administrator password to confirm.

      • NOTE: It is critical to update the password within this template. There is a masked value present in the template, but there is no actual password set. If you do not set this password, you will not be able to log in to the deployed server.

   7. Select the OS Image configured for Hyper-V to deploy within your ASM managed environment.

4. Under Network Settings, update the network settings based on the hypervisor that you want to deploy and the networks you have configured in your environment.

5. Click Save.

1. Make sure that you select your target SCVMM hypervisor from the Target Hypervisor drop-down list.

2. Select an existing host group from the Host Group drop-down list or enter the name of the host group that you want to create in the New Host Group name field.

3. Enter the name of the Host Group you want to create or select the name of an existing host group.

4. Modify the Cluster Name, if required.

5. Click Save.

This template is now ready to be deployed.