OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.2

Provisioning

All auto/manually discovered complaint bare-metal systems are available to OMIVV for hardware provisioning and hypervisor deployment. To prepare for provisioning and deployment, do the following:

Table 1. Preparing for deployment
StepsDescription
Create a system profileContains the system configuration settings gathered from a 14th generation reference server that is used to configure the new servers.
Create a hardware profileContains the hardware settings gathered from a reference server that is used to deploy new servers. See Creating or customizing hardware profile .
NOTE: It is recommended to use hardware profile for 13th generation and earlier servers.
Create a hypervisor profileContains the hypervisor installation information needed for the ESXi deployment. See Creating hypervisor profile.
Create a deployment templateA deployment template contains a system profile, hardware profile, hypervisor profile, a combination of system profile and hypervisor profile, or a combination of the hardware profile and hypervisor profile. You can save and reuse these profiles as required for all available data center servers.

After 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 Deployment Wizard. Lastly, view the job status through job queue and change the pending deployment jobs.