User's Manual

Provisioning Overview............................................................................................................................................58
Understanding Deployment Job Times...................................................................................................................58
Server States Within The Deployment Sequence..................................................................................................58
Downloading Custom Dell ISO Images...................................................................................................................59
Understanding How To Configure A Hardware Profile..........................................................................................59
Enabling CSIOR On A Reference Server..........................................................................................................60
Creating A New Hardware Profile...................................................................................................................60
Cloning A New Hardware Profile.....................................................................................................................62
About Managing Hardware Profiles.......................................................................................................................62
Viewing Or Editing A Hardware Profile............................................................................................................63
Duplicating A Hardware Profile.......................................................................................................................63
Renaming A Hardware Profile..........................................................................................................................63
Deleting A Hardware Profile............................................................................................................................63
Refreshing An Updated Hardware Profile........................................................................................................63
Creating A New Hypervisor Profile.........................................................................................................................64
Managing Hypervisor Profiles................................................................................................................................65
VLAN Support...................................................................................................................................................65
Viewing Or Editing Hypervisor Profiles............................................................................................................66
Duplicating a Hypervisor Profiles.....................................................................................................................66
Renaming Hypervisor Profile............................................................................................................................67
Deleting A Hypervisor Profile...........................................................................................................................67
Refreshing Hypervisor Profiles........................................................................................................................67
Building A New Deployment Template...................................................................................................................67
Managing Deployment Templates...................................................................................................................68
Running The Deployment Wizard...........................................................................................................................68
Deployment Wizard - Step 1: Select Servers ..................................................................................................69
Deployment Wizard Step 2: Deployment Templates........................................................................................69
Deployment Wizard Step 3: Global Settings.....................................................................................................70
Deployment Wizard Step 4: Server Identification............................................................................................70
Deployment Wizard Step 5: Connection Profile...............................................................................................71
Deployment Wizard Step 6: Scheduling Jobs..................................................................................................71
Understanding Job Queue...............................................................................................................................72
Adding A Server Manually...............................................................................................................................73
Removing A Bare Metal Server........................................................................................................................73
6 Dell Management Plug-In Administration.............................................................................75
Web-based Administration Console.......................................................................................................................75
Managing vCenter Server Connections.................................................................................................................75
Registering A vCenter Server...........................................................................................................................75
Uploading A Dell Management Plug-in License To The Administration Console............................................76
Virtual Appliance Management..............................................................................................................................77
Restarting The Virtual Appliance.....................................................................................................................77