Hardware profile creation
Select the following settings that you want to include in the hardware profile. All information is gathered during hardware profile creation, irrespective of your selection preferences. However, only your preferences are applied during deployment.
Welcome | |
Welcome | The operating system deployment workflow includes
creation of a hardware configuration profile. View, and modify the following hardware settings:
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Profile | |
Hardware Profile Name | Type a unique name for the hardware profile you are creating. |
Hardware Profile Description | Type a description for the hardware profile. |
Reference Server (iDRAC IP) | Type the iDRAC IP address of the reference server
whose settings you are using for creating the hardware profile. As a prerequisite, discover the reference server before creating a hardware profile based on the reference server configuration. |
Profile Details | |
Profile Details | Select the settings that you want to include while
applying the hardware profile, such as selecting the number of DHS
per virtual disk, BIOS, boot, and RAID settings. If you have selected default, you cannot apply the BIOS, boot, and RAID settings. |
Reference Server | View the iDRAC IP address of the reference server. |
Dedicated Hot Spare | |
Dedicated Hot Spare | Select the default option or you can customize the DHS-related information for server included in the hardware profile. |
Default | Based on the server generation, the dedicated hot spares information is included in the hardware profile. |
Create required hot spare per virtual disk | Specify the required number of DHS per virtual disk. |
Number of DHS per virtual disk | Select the number of DHS required from the drop-down list. |
Include these settings in the Hardware Profile. | |
Include these settings in the Hardware Profile. | Select the settings listed in the section to be included in the hardware profile. |
BIOS Settings | Include the BIOS settings when applying the hardware profile. |
Continue on error | When applying the BIOS attributes, if you want to continue with applying the hardware profile even if some BIOS attributes fail to apply, select this check box. This option is available only for BIOS settings. |
Boot Settings | Include the boot settings from the reference server in the hardware profile. |
RAID Settings | Include RAID settings in the hardware profile. |
BIOS Settings | |
BIOS Settings | View a list of BIOS tokens and its values based
on reference server. By default, the BIOS configuration is included
in the profile. Optionally, you can choose to exclude BIOS configuration
from profile definition. The list only includes the BIOS configuration
attributes that you can write. NOTE: Under Memory
Settings, the snoop mode attribute does not support the ClusterOnDie option. |
Boot Settings | Use to view, and edit the boot settings. |
RAID Configuration | View the RAID configuration of reference server. |
View Controller | Select the software or hardware controller present
in the reference server to view information about the number of disks
under that controller. NOTE: The chipset SATA controller
option is not supported. |
View Virtual Disk | Select the virtual disk under the selected controller to view information about the virtual disk. |
Summary | |
Summary | View the settings specified for creating a hardware profile. Click Finish to save the newly created hardware profile. If you want to change the settings, click Back or the options in the left pane. |
Summary Information | |
Summary Information | View the information about reference server and boot device. |
Reference Server | View the IP address of the reference server. |
Primary Boot Device | View the name of the device. |
Details | |
Details | View the information about the hardware profile. |
Date Created | View the date and time when the hardware profile was created. |
Date Modified | View the date and time when the hardware profile was last modified. |
Last Modified By | View the name of the person who last modified the profile. |
Description | View a brief description of the profile. |
Back | Click Back or the options in the left pane to change the settings. |
Cancel | Close the page without saving the changes. |
Finish | Save the newly created hardware profile. |