Understanding Deployment Job Times

Provisioning and deploying bare-metal servers can take between 30 minutes to several hours to complete, depending on certain factors. When starting a deployment job, it is recommended that you plan your deployment time according to the guidelines provided. The amount of time it takes to complete provisioning and deployment varies with deployment type, complexity, and number of deployment jobs running simultaneously. The table below gives guidelines of the approximate time a deployment job may take. Deployment jobs are run in batches of up to five concurrent servers, to improve time for the overall deployment job. The exact number of concurrent jobs depends on resources available.

Table 2. Approximate Deployment Time Scenarios
Deployment Type Approximate Time Per Deployment
Hypervisor only Between 30 minutes to 130 minutes
Hardware only Up to 2 hours depending on the complexity and the RAID, BIOS, and boot options to configure
Hypervisor and Hardware profiles 1 to 4 hours