Solution Guide

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800)

4 Physical Templates and Orchestration

4.1 Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning

Template ‘Cluster - VMware ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor deployment ISO boot’ and ‘Cluster - VMware ESXi 5.1

Hypervisor deployment PXE boot’ can be used for installing ESXi 5.1 on an SD card/hard disk,

respectively, using PXE / ISO Boot. You can specify one or more blade servers using this template for

creating a cluster.

Figure 70. Multiple Blade Server for Cluster Provisioning

When this template is scheduled, this template performs the following sequence of operations:

1. Reserves single or multiple VLANs for VM traffic using a VLAN component. Ifthe VLAN reserved

in the session is not already configured on the ToR switches, then the VLANs are created and

tagged to appropriate port-channels.

2. IOA Configuration

a. The VLAN IDs provided for Network1, Network2, Network4, and VLAN component in the

physical template are created on the IOA server facing interfaces as Tagged VLANs.

b. The Native VLAN ID provided for Network1 is added as Un-Tagged VLAN on the server

facing interface.

c. The Native VLAN ID is mandatory for PXE boot scenario.

3. NIC Partitioning

a. NIC Partitioning is enabled on the CAN.

b. NIC Partitioning is only supported Broadcom CNA.

4. Set NIC Attributes

a. Configure the Min and Max Bandwidth

b. Enable / Disable iSCSI Offload on the NIC Partitions

c. Enable LAN Mode

d. Enable the Legacy boot protocol for PXE Boot scenario