Users Guide

For Emulex Fibre Channel (FC) cards, the Enable/Disable Boot From SAN attribute in the Option ROM is disabled by default. Enable the

attribute in the Option ROM and apply the boot identify prole to the server for booting from SAN.

To save a prole, perform the following tasks:

1 Go to the Server Proles page. In the Boot Identity Proles section, select the server that has the required settings with which you

want to generate the prole and select FQDD from the FQDD drop-down menu.

2 Click Save Identity. The Save Identity section is displayed.

NOTE: Boot identity is saved only if the Network Share option is enabled and accessible, the details are displayed in the

Stored Proles section. If the Network Share is not connected, congure the network share for the chassis. To congure

the network share, click Edit in the Stored Proles section. For more information, see

Conguring Network Share Using

CMC Web Interface

3 In the Base Prole Name and Number of Proles elds, enter the prole name and the number of proles that you want to save.

NOTE: While saving a boot identity prole, the standard ASCII extended character set is supported. However, the following

special characters are not supported:

), “, ., *, >, <, \, /, :, |, #, ?, and ,

Select a MAC address for the base prole from the Virtual MAC Address drop-down and click Save Prole.

The number of templates created are based on the number of proles you specify. CMC communicates with the Lifecycle Controller to

get the available server prole settings and store them as a named prole. The format for the name le is — <base prole

name>_<prole number>_<MAC address>. For example: FC630_01_0E0000000000.

A progress indicator indicates that the save operation is in progress. After the action is complete, Operation Successful message is

displayed.

NOTE

: The process to gather the settings occurs in the background. Hence, it may take some time before the new prole is

displayed. If the new prole is not displayed, check the prole log for errors.

Applying Boot Identity Proles

You can apply boot identity prole settings if the boot identity proles are available as stored proles on the network share. To initiate a boot

identity conguration operation, you can apply a stored prole to a single server.

NOTE

: If a server does not support Lifecycle Controller or the chassis is powered o, you cannot apply a prole to the server.

To apply a prole to a server, perform the following tasks:

1 Go to the Server Proles page. In the Boot Identity proles section, select the server on which you want to apply the selected

prole.

The Select Prole drop-down menu gets enabled.

NOTE

: The Select Prole drop-down menu displays all available proles that are sorted by type from the network share.

2 From the Select Prole drop-down menu, select the prole that you want to apply.

The Apply Identity option is enabled.

3 Click Apply Identity.

A warning message is displayed that applying a new identity overwrites the current settings and also reboots the selected server. You

are prompted to conrm if you want to continue the operation.

NOTE

: To perform server conguration replication operations on the server, the CSIOR option must be enabled for the

servers. If CSIOR option is disabled, a warning message is displayed that CSIOR is not enabled for the server. To complete

the server conguration replication operation, enable the CSIOR option on the server.

4 Click OK to apply the boot identity prole to the selected server.

Conguring servers