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. 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.