Users Guide

Enter the server pool name in the Server Pool field. Click Add. It directs you to Template page. There you

can see the newly added template. This template is used only for deploying Operating System on server.

NOTE: Here you will not get any option for Harware, BIOS, and network configuration. You are

required to check manually weather or not server has hard disks available and network is configured

on rack switch or blade chassis.

Related Tasks

Storage

Cluster

Virtual Machine

Application

Configuring interface on rack servers

To add a server interface:

1. In the Server Component dialog box, select Rack Server option under Targeted Server Type:

2. For Rack Servers, under Interfaces, click Add New Interface.

3. From the NIC Type, select the NIC type:

• Two port, 10 gigabit

• Four port, 10 gigabit

• Two port, 10 gigabit and Two port, 1 gigabit

4. Select the Used for FC check box, if you want to use the NIC for Fibre Channel.

5. Under specific ports, if you want to partition the port, select the Do you want to partition? check

box.

6. Enter the following information for each ports or partitions:

a. Select the vLAN Networks to use for data transmission

b. Enter the Minimum Bandwidth and maximum bandwidth in percentage.

7. Repeat the steps 4 through 6 for each port.

8. After configuring interfaces, you can configure NIC Teams.

9. Click Add.

Configuring Interface on Blade or FX Servers

1. In the Server Component dialog box, under Network Setting , select Blade or FX2Server option from

Fabric Configuration.

2. To enable fabrics, select the corresponding check boxes next to Fabric A / onboard NIC, Fabric B /

PCI e slot 1

, and Fabric C / PCI e slot 2.

Fabric A, Fabric B and Fabric C are applicable for M1000E Chassis.

Onboard NIC, PCIe slot 1, PCIe slot 2 are applicable for FX2 .

3. Under Used for Fibre Channel, select the check boxes next to Fabric B / PCI e slot 1 and Fabric C / /

PCI e slot 2 if you want to enable the fabrics for Fibre Channel traffic. To enable a fabric for Fibre

Channel, you must ensure the setting to enable NIC partitioning is disabled. You cannot have both

partitioning and use for Fibre Channel enabled

4. From the NIC Type, select one of following NIC types:

• Two port, 10 gigabit

• Four port, 10 gigabit