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manually, or the network can be configured to provide this information.
For the manual setup instructions, see "Configure Dell iDRAC Auto
Discovery and Initial Start-up, and Disable/Enable User ID and Password"
on page 36 for more information. For network configuration instructions,
see "Enabling Auto-Discovery on a Newly-Purchased System" on page 99
for more information.
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If the Plug-in is not used for hardware configuration, then make sure the
following conditions are met prior to initiating hypervisor deployment:
• BIOS configuration needs to be set to change the
VT
flag to Enabled.
• The system needs to have a Virtual Disk for installation of the OS.
The Plug-in will not install the hypervisor to an internal SD card.
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If the Plug-in is used for hardware configuration, the BIOS setting for VT
is automatically enabled, even if BIOS configuration is not part of the
hardware profile. Express/Clone RAID configuration will be required if a
virtual disk is not already present on the target system.
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The deployment process installs the OpenManage Server Administrator
package on the target system, and will automatically configure the SNMP
trap destination to point to the Dell Plug-in.
Overview
Once a physical inventory of the datacenter is complete, all auto-discovered
bare-metal systems are available to the Management Plug-in for zero touch
hardware provisioning and hypervisor deployment. To prepare for
provisioning and deployment, you must:
1
Create a Hardware Profile - Contains the hardware settings gathered from
a
reference server
that will be used to deploy new servers.
2
Create a Hypervisor Profile - Contains the hypervisor installation
information needed for ESX/ESXi deployment.
3
Create a Deployment Template - Optionally contains a hardware profile, a
hypervisor profile, or both; can be saved and reused as needed for all
available datacenter servers.
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