Users Guide

b. Under the Associated Resources section, select Associate All Resources or Associate Selected
Resources to associate all or specific components to the new component.
c. Click Continue.
d. Under EqualLogic Storage Settings, configure the following:
1. From the Target EqualLogic drop-down menu, select the target EqualLogic array.
2. In the Storage Volume Name box, type a unique name.
3. In Storage Size (e.g 100GB, 1GB) text box, type the storage size.
4. Verify the values for Storage Pool, Thin Provisioning, Snapshot Reserve %, Thin Min
Reserve %, Thin growth Warning %, Thin growth Maximum %, Thin warning on threshold
%, Thin warning on hard threshold %, Multi-Host access of volume, Authentication, and
Initiator IQN or IP Addresses.
5. Click Save.
5. On the Template Builder page, click each server component and click Edit to configure the
components.
The Server Component window is displayed.
6. On the Server Component window, configure the following options:
a. Modify the Component Name with a unique name, if necessary.
b. Under the Associated Resources section, select Associate All Resources or Associate Selected
Resources to associate all or specific components to the new component.
c. Click Continue.
d. Under Hardware Settings, configure the following:
1. Retain the default selection of Local Hard Drive for Target Boot Device.
2. Select a Server Pool that contains a target server from the drop-down list.
3. Configure RAID. The following two options are available to configure RAID level:
• Basic
• Advanced
e. Under OS Settings, configure the following:
1. From the OS Image drop-down menu, select the OS image.
2. Edit the Administrator Password for the ESXi host.
3. If you select the Auto-generate Host Name check box, a Host Name Template field is
displayed.
On Host Name Template field, type unique host name for deployment. You must use
variable while generating host name.
4. Type the IP address of the NTP Server for time synchronization.
f. Under Network Settings,
1. Leave the Identify Pool drop-down menu set to Global pool.
2. Click Add New Interface option to create a network interface in a template server
component.
3. Configure Partitioning and Redundancy according to the needs of your environment.
4. Add ASM Networks as required for VMware deployments, for example, Hypervisor
Management, Hypervisor Migration, and Public or Private networks.
For more information on Adding New Interface, see Add New Interface section in User’s Guide.
g. Under the BIOS Settings section, select the following:
1. System Profile — Select the system power and performance profile for the server.
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