Configure Active Fabric Manager As A Virtual Appliance; Prerequisites; Hardware Requirements; Virtual Appliance Requirements - Dell Active Fabric Manager Installation Manual

Configure Active Fabric Manager as a Virtual
Appliance
Starting with Release 1.5 of Active Fabric Manager (AFM), you can deploy the AFM as virtual appliance on a VMware®
ESX® virtual machine or Workstation™. In this guide, you learn how to configure the AFM as a virtual appliance. The
instructions in this document assume you have already installed and configured an ESX host or workstation where you
plan to run AFM. For additional information about installing and configuring the ESX virtual host machine or Workstation,
consult the VMware documentation.
To configure AFM as a virtual appliance:
1. Review the Prerequisites
2. Deploy the OVF Template
3. Start the AFM VM
4. Manage the AFM Virtual Appliance
5. Perform Initial Configuration

Prerequisites

NOTE: If you are using the AFM VM as a syslog and a TFTP or FTP server, you do not need to gather the following
information.
Before you begin, gather the following information:
• Syslog IP addresses — IP address of remote syslog server.
• TFTP or FTP server address — IP address of TFTP or FTP server for the Dell Networking Operating System
(FTOS) software images and configuration files during bare metal provisioning (BMP). If you are using an FTP
server, obtain the user name and password.

Hardware Requirements

Disk Space 1TB 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5 Hot Plug Hard Drive
System Type 64-bit operating system
Processor Intel® Xeon® E5620 2.4Ghz, 12M Cache,Turbo, HT, 1066MHz Max Memory
Memory 32GB Memory (8x4GB), 1333MHz Dual Ranked LV RDIMMs for 2 Processors, Advanced ECC

Virtual Appliance Requirements

AFM runs as a virtual appliance. It requires the following software to host the solution:
• VMware® Workstation™ version 8.0.5 and higher
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