Users Guide

Actions

Next Displays the Ethernet tab.

Finish Saves the changes and displays the Identity Pools page.

Cancel Closes the Create Identity Pool wizard without saving the changes.

Identity pools

An identity pool is a collection of one or more virtual identity types that are required for network communication. An identity

pool can contain a combination of any of the following virtual identity types:

● Ethernet identities

The Identities which are defined by the Media Access Control (MAC) address. MAC addresses are required for Ethernet

(LAN) communications.

● iSCSI identities

The Identities which are defined by the iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN). IQN identities are required to support boot-from-SAN by

using the iSCSI protocol.

● Fibre Channel (FC) identities

The Identities which are defined by the World Wide Node Name (WWNN) and World Wide Port Name (WWPN). A WWNN

identity is assigned to a node (device) in an FC fabric and may be shared by some or all ports of a device. A WWPN identity

is assigned to each port in an FC fabric and is unique to each port. WWNN and WWPN identities are required to support

boot-from-SAN and for data access using FC and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols.

● Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) identities

Identities that provide a unique virtual identity for FCoE operations. These identities are defined by both MAC address and

the FC addresses (that is WWNN and WWPN). WWNN and WWPN identities are required to support boot-from-SAN and for

data access using FC and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols.

OpenManage Enterprise uses the identity pools to automatically assign virtual identities to the device template that is used for

deploying a server.

NOTE:

● For the identities that belong to an existing identity pool but were deployed outside of OpenManage Enterprise, a new

Configuration Inventory job must be initiated to identify and designate them as 'assigned' in the appliance.

● The virtual identities which are already assigned, will not be used for a new deployment unless these identities are

cleared.

Create identity pools

You can create an identity pool that contains one or more virtual identity types.

To create a pool of virtual identity types:

1. On the Configuration page, click Identity Pools.

2. Click Create.

3. In the Create Identity Pool dialog box, under Pool Information:

a. Enter a unique name for the identity pool and an appropriate description.

b. Click Next.

4. In the Ethernet section:

a. Select the Include ethernet virtual MAC addresses check box to include the MAC addresses.

b. Enter a starting MAC address and specify the number of virtual MAC identities to be created.

5. In the iSCSI section:

a. Select the Include iSCSI MAC addresses check box to include iSCSI MAC addresses.

b. Enter the starting MAC address and specify the number of iSCSI MAC addresses to be created.

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