OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

Understanding How To Configure A Hardware Profile

To configure server hardware settings, you must create a hardware profile. A hardware profile is a configuration template you can apply to newly-discovered infrastructure components and it requires the following information:

Boot Order The boot order is the boot device sequence and hard drive sequence, which you can edit only if the boot mode is set to BIOS.
BIOS Settings The BIOS settings include: memory, processor, SATA, integrated devices, serial communications, embedded server management, power management, system security, and miscellaneous settings.
iDRAC Settings iDRAC settings include: Network, user list, and user configuration (IPMI/iDRAC privileges).
NOTE: For systems that have iDRAC Express, the iDRAC configuration cannot be extracted; therefore, the server should not be used as a reference server. If it is used as a target system, then no iDRAC configuration from the reference server is applied.
RAID Configuration The RAID configuration displays the current RAID topology on the reference server at the time the hardware profile was extracted.
NOTE: There are two RAID configuration options configured in the Hardware Profile: 1. Apply RAID1 + create a dedicated hot spare, applicable. Use this option if you want to apply default RAID configuration settings to the target server. The RAID configuration task defaults to RAID1 on the first two drives of the integrated controller that are RAID1 capable. Additionally, a dedicated hot-spare for the RAID1 array is created if a candidate drive meeting the criteria exists. 2. Clone RAID configuration from the reference Server as shown below. Use this option if you want to clone the reference server setting. See Creating A New Hardware Profile.
NOTE: The OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter enables certain BIOS settings under the Processor group in the BIOS on all deployed servers, regardless of the settings on the reference server. Before using a reference server to create a new hardware profile, it must have the Collect System Inventory On Reboot (CSIOR) setting enabled and be rebooted to provide accurate inventory and configuration information.

The tasks for creating hardware profiles include: