Once a physical inventory of the datacenter is complete, all auto-discovered bare-metal systems are available to the Dell Management Plug-in for zero touch hardware provisioning and hypervisor deployment. To prepare for provisioning and deployment, you must:
Create a Hardware Profile | Contains the hardware settings gathered from a reference server that is used to deploy new servers. See Creating A New Hardware Profile. |
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Create a Hypervisor Profile | Contains the hypervisor installation information needed for ESX/ESXi deployment. See Creating A New Hypervisor Profile. |
Create a Deployment Template | Optionally contains a hardware profile, a hypervisor profile, or both. You can save and reuse these profiles as needed for all available datacenter servers. See Building Deployment Templates. |
Once the deployment template is created, use the Deployment Wizard to gather the information necessary to create a scheduled job that provisions server hardware and deploys new hosts in vCenter. For information about running the Deployment Wizard, see Running The Deployment Wizard . Lastly, the use the Job Queue to view job status and make changes to pending deployment jobs.