Users Guide

Field Name Description

The space reservation

mode

Specifies the type of volume that guarantee the new volume will use.

Possible values: none, File, Volume. If any value is not selected, the default

volume guarantee type is set to Volume.

The percentage of space to

reserve for snapshots

Specifies the percentage of space to reserve the snapshots. Default value is

Auto increment Select this check box to enable auto-increment of volume size. By default,

auto increment is enabled.

Persistent

• In Data ONTAP 7-Mode, the persistent is enabled by default. If it is

enabled, modifies the etc/exports file to append the rule for a

permanent change. (The new rule still takes effect immediately.)

• In Data ONTAP Cluster-Mode, the export entries are always persistent.

Persistent is enabled by default. If persistent is not enabled an error

occurs.

NFS Target IP Specifies the interface IP that is used for NFS traffic in your environment.

Server

To provision a bare metal server, add a server component in the template builder.

After selecting Server on the template builder page, perform the following actions:

1. On the Server Component window, from the Component Name drop-down list, select a Server or

Server (O/S Installation Only).

2. In the # of Instances, box, enter the number of the server instances that you want to add.

3. Under Related Components, select the components that you want to map with the server

components. For more information about valid component combinations that can be mapped

together in a template, see Component Combinations in Templates

4. Click Continue.

5. To import an existing server configuration and use it for the server component settings, click Import

Configuration from Reference Server. On the Select Reference Server page, select the server from

which you want to import the settings, and click Select.

NOTE: ASM does not only import basic setting from reference server but also import all the

BIOS setting and advance RAID configuration from the reference server and allow you to edit

the configuration

For some BIOS settings, they may become not applicable when other BIOS settings are

applied. ASM does not correct these setting dependencies. When setting advanced BIOS

settings use caution and verify BIOS settings on the hardware are applicable when not

choosing "Not Applicable" as an option. For example, when disabling SD card the settings for

"Internal SD Card Redundancy" becomes not applicable..

6. To import configuration from a server that is part of an existing templates, click Import from Existing

Template. On the Select Component page, select the server under a template, and click Select.

7. The Upload Server Configuration XML File feature enables you to upload configuration XML file to

ASM .