Solution Guide

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

4.2 Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host Provisioning

Template ‘Standalone—VMware ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor deployment with SD Card with vSwitch’ and

‘Standalone – VMware ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor deployment with HDD with vSwitch’ can be used for

installing ESXi 5.1 on an SD card/hard disk, respectively, using PXE / ISO Boot. User could specify one

or more blade servers for standalone ESXi host provisioning.

Figure 71. Single Blade Server for Standalone ESX Host 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 VLAN 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

5. Create the ISO files for each server dynamically based on the Server IP Address, Hostname,

Name server values provided in the database.

6. Mount the ISO using iDRAC Virtual Media on all the Servers and initiate the installation process.