User's Manual

7-4 Active System Manager User Guide, Release 7.1
1. On the Firmware Settings page of the Create Server Template wizard, choose a device and either enter
the path to the correct firmware repository or click the browse (...) button and select the firmware in the
Browse Repository dialog box.
To clear an incorrect path, click Clear.
Note The firmware versions will depend on your environment. Any paths left blank will leave the
firmware at its current version.
2. Click Next.
Adding or Editing Networks Settings on a Server Template
On the Networks Settings page of the Create Server Profile Template wizard, you can add, edit, and remove
the virtual NICs available to servers deployed with this template. A virtual NIC configures the adapter port
or port partition on a network adapter. The virtual NIC settings are used to filter the available servers that
display when applying the template.
To exclude Network information from this template, deselect Include Network Configuration. If
Network is deselected, the Network setting will not be included any associated Server Profiles.
Alternately, to configure Network settings that will be applied to servers based on this template:
1. Select Enable Bandwidth Over-subscription to allow you to set a higher maximum bandwidth for
each of the virtual NICs on a server, so that their total exceeds 100% of the network bandwidth available
to the NIC port to which the virtual NIC is assigned.
This enables the various virtual NICs to use as much bandwidth as possible, as their individual traffic flows
change. For example, if bandwidth oversubscription is enabled on a server with four virtual NICs and a
total available bandwidth of 10 GB, then you can assign a maximum bandwidth as high as 10 GB for each
virtual NIC. In this case, if traffic flow is high on one virtual NIC and low on another, then the virtual NIC
with high traffic flow will consume the excess bandwidth of the low-traffic virtual NIC. However, if
bandwidth oversubscription is disabled, then the total bandwidth of the virtual NICs assigned to a 10GB
port is less than or equal to 10GB.
2. Select the Virtual NIC Mapping Order (Physical Partition or PCI Function).
The Virtual NIC Mapping Order determines how virtual NICs are mapped to the partitions on each port of
an adapter. Selecting Physical Partition consecutively assigns virtual NICs to partitions (for example,
Port1/Partition0, then Port1/Partition1, and so on). Selecting PCI Function assigns virtual NICs by
alternating between ports (for example, Port1/Partition0, then Port2/Partition0, and so on). Different
operating systems have different mapping order requirements-for example, RHEL 6.2 and ESX 5.0 both
use PCI function to enumerate partitions.
3. Click Add to create one or more new virtual NIC configurations, or Edit an existing virtual NIC
configuration, or Remove to delete the configuration from the template.
Note You cannot change the order of the NICs after they’ve been configured. The assignment is
determined by the order in which the NICs appear on the list.
4. Click Next.
Note You can create up to 32 profiles at once. You can choose to have the system auto-assign values for
the virtual NICs or you can manually assign them.