OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

Provisioning Overview

Once a physical inventory of the datacenter is complete, all auto-discovered bare-metal systems are available to the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter 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.
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.

NOTE: No more than two deployment jobs should be scheduled to run consecutively. Multiple jobs should use the scheduling feature to stagger deployment execution.