Hardware
Settings
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Target Boot Device
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Specifies the target boot device.
The options available are —
Boot from SAN (FC),
Local Hard
Drive Boot From SAN (iSCSI)
,
None,
None (With RAID Configuration),
SD with RAID enabled, and
SD with RAID disabled.
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NOTE: The
SD with RAID enabled option allows you to boot from the
SD and then proceed with creating the RAID virtual disks.
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RAID
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You can configure RAID using this
feature. The following options are available to configure RAID Level:
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Advanced RAID Configuration
Basic RAID Level:
Select
Basic RAID Level option, and then select
RAID level from the
Basic RAID Level drop-down
menu.
ASM supports external and internal RAID controllers
using the Advanced RAID Configuration feature.
Advanced RAID Configuration: If you select
Advanced RAID Configuration, You get two buttons
Add Internal
Virtual Disks
,
Add External Virtual Disk. There are 4 settings under
Add Internal Virtual Disks,
Add External Virtual Disk:
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Virtual Disk: Lists the ID
number of the virtual disk.
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RAID Level: Select RAID level
from the drop-down menu.
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# of Disks: Select number
of disks according to the selected RAID level. You may specify "Minimum"
or "Exactly" to determine whether ASM should create the virtual disk
with the exact number of drives or use as many drives as available.
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NOTE: If the number of selected
disks is not correct for the chosen RAID level, template validation
does not allow you to proceed further.
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Disk Type: Select disk type
from the drop-down menu. You can select
Any Available,
Require HDD, or
Require SDD to specify the type of drives to be selected for the virtual disk.
A virtual disk cannot be created with a mix of SSD and HDD.
There is feature,
Enable Global Hotspares. This option is available for both
Add Internal Virtual
Disk
and
Add External Virtual Disk. By using this feature, you can specify number of hot spares you
want to set for disk.
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NOTE:
ASM supports
MD1400 and manages MD1400DAS through second RAID Controller. ASM provides
the ability to configure a second RAID controller to support the MD
1400 external storage array. In order to support this, you must have
a second PERC device in your system. It is recommended to use the
PERC H830 storage controller with the MD 1400.
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Server Pool
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Specifies the pool from which servers
are selected for the deployment.
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BIOS Settings
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System Profile
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Select the system power and performance
profile for the server.
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User Accessible USB
Ports
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Enables or disables the user accessible
USB ports.
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Number of Cores per
Processor
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Specifies the number of enabled
cores per processor.
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Virtualization Technology
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If this is enabled, the additional
hardware capabilities provided by virtualization technology are enabled.
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Logical Processors
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Each processor core supports up
to two logical processors. If enabled, the BIOS reports all logical
processors. If disabled, the BIOS reports only one logical processor
per core.
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Node Interleaving
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If the system is configured with
matching memory, enables memory node interleaving. If disabled the
system supports nonuniform memory architecture memory configurations.
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NOTE: Ensure that
you disable the Node-Interleave option in the server BIOS when creating
a virtual machine on a HyperV server.
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Execute Disable
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Enables or disable execute disable
memory protection.
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OS Settings
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Auto-generate Host Name
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Auto generate host
name
option is displayed on
Server Component window for generating host name. If you already auto generated
host name on Server Component window, Auto generate host name option
will not be display.
- If you select the
Auto-generate Host
Name
check box, a
Host Name Template field is displayed.
- On
Host Name Template field,
type unique host name for deployment.
You must use variable while generating host name.
For Example: It can be service tag or Service tag+
Vendor+ Unique number. If you clear
Auto-generate Host
Name
check box,
Host Name Template field is disappeared.
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NOTE:
Auto- generate
Host name
feature is applicable for both the server, server(O/S
Installation only). In case of multiple instances of deployment, you
have to select
Auto- generate Host name option.
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NOTE: When you have
static assigned IP and if you have DNS configured in template, DNS
use the IP to lookup the hostname and use it as hostname for the deployment.
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OS Image
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Specifies the target repository
where the OS image install files are located. The default repositories
are ESXi. The additional repositories are shown if the user created
them on the ASM appliance.
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NOTE: You can select Red
Hat Linux, Cent OS, Windows, Hyper-V, ESXi from the
OS
Image
drop-down menu. It is upgraded with Linux 7, Cent
OS 7 from this release.
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NOTE: If you select an operating
system from the
OS Image drop-down menu, the
field NTP Server is displayed.. This is an optional component for
all operating systems except Hyper-V, but we highly recommend you
to enter an NTP server IP in the field to ensure proper time synchronization
with your environment and ASM appliance. Sometimes when time is not
properly synchronized, service deployment failure can occur.
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NOTE: If you want
to add more than one NTP server in the OS section of a server component,
make sure to separate the IP addresses using comma (,).
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Administrator password
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Enter the administrator password
that set on the installed OS.
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Confirm administrator
password
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Enter to confirm the administrator
password.
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Select iSCSI Initiator
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Select one of the following:
- Hardware Initiator
- Software Initiator
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Install EqualLogic MEM
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If the value is
True, install EqualLogic Multipathing Extension Module.
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Product Key
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Specifies the product key to install
the OS image on the server.
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Timezone
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Specifies the time zone of the server.
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NTP Server
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Specifies the IP address of the
NTP server for time synchronization.
If you want to add more
than one NTP server in the OS section of a server component, make
sure to separate the IP addresses using comma (,).
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Language
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Specifies the language to be displayed
in the installed operating system. That is, Windows operating system.
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Keyboard
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Specifies the key board language
to be used during Windows installation.
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Domain Name
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Specifies the domain name to which
you want to add the host. For example, aidev
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FQ Domain Name
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Specifies the Fully Qualified Domain
Name (FQDN) to which you want to add the host. For example, aidev.com
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Domain Admin Username
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Specifies the username to access
the domain.
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Domain Admin Password
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Specifies the admin password to
add the host to the domain.
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Domain Admin Password
Confirm
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Enables you to reconfirm the admin
password to add the host to the domain.
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Network
Settings
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Add New Interface
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Click
Add New Interface option to create a network interface in a template server component.
Under this interface all network settings are specified for a server.
This interface is used to find a compatible server in inventory, for
example if "Two Port, 10 gigabit" is added to the template, when the
template is deployed ASM will match a server which has a two port
10 gigabit network card as it's first interface.
For more information on adding a new interface, see
Adding New Interface.
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Static Network Default
Gateway
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Select the default gateway IP
address for routing network traffic.
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Identity Pool
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Select the virtual identity pool
from which virtual identities (MAC address and WWPN/WWNN) are selected
for boot from SAN deployment.
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