Owner's Manual

Target Boot Device Description

NOTE: Based on the value selected from the OS Image Type drop-

down list, the fields related to that OS type are displayed.

Custom Installation OS

Script

Refers to ASM maintained kickstart scripts or unattend.xml customer

specific scripts to be used as a part of unattend OS install.

Network Settings

Identity Pool Refers to the Identity Pool that is used to connect to the storage devices.

Selecting a Global value here allows you to choose the identities or MAC

addresses, IQNs, WWNNs and WWPNs.

Host Name Refers to the Host Name set during deployment.

Hypervisor Management

Network

(Optional networks) Refers to all networks of the type “Hypervisor

Management”.

Hypervisor vMotion Network (Optional networks) Refers to all Hypervisors available for vMotion.

Storage Network (Optional networks) Refers to all SAN iSCSI and FCoE networks.

PXE Network Refers to configuring the PXE based OS imaging on servers. The specified

VLAN is configured as un-tagged VLAN on the ToR/IOA switches.

Workload Templates Refers to all the private and public networks in the network stage. You

can choose multiple networks. However, it is mandatory to select at least

one network.

Cluster Private Network Specifies the network that will be used for the private cluster heartbeat

network Hyper-V.

Live Migration Network Specifies the network that you want to use for live migration. Live

migration allows you to transparently move running virtual machines

from one node of the failover cluster to another node in the same

cluster.

NOTE: After entering the information about PXE network in the respective field as described in the

table here, ASM will untag vLANs entered by the user in the PXE network on the switch server facing

port. In case of vMotion and Hypervisor network, for the entered information ASM will tag these

networks on the switch server facing ports. In case of Rack Server, ASM will configure those vLANs

on TOR server facing ports (untag PXE vLANs, and tag other vLANs). In the case for Blade Servers,

ASM will configure those vLANs on the IOM server facing ports (untag PXE vLANs and tag other

vLANs).

Cluster

In ASM, adding a Cluster component to a template refers to creating a cluster inside a vCenter and

SCVMM.