Users Guide

After you select OS Image Type, Time zone and NTP Server fields are displayed. Select time zone from

Time Zone drop-down menu.

NTP Server:

It is an optional component. You can specify NTP server for bare metal OS installation, esxi installation.

NOTE: It is recommended to enter IP address in the NTP server field to avoid failure at the time of

synchronizing between ASM appliances and the targeted server. It is recommended to configure

NTP synchronization in your environment. It helps to fetch server pool efficiently.

Server Pool:

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:

• 2 Port

• 4 Port

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.