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13 Deployment and Migration of Boot from SAN Configuration using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise version
3.3.1
3.4 Associate the iSCSI-defined identity pool with the captured base
system template
Identity pool association is a critical step in the ‘stateless’ deployment. In this step, the base system template
is linked with the iSCSI identity pool, which would be applied to the target servers’ NIC ports during
deployment. Link establishment to SAN target using virtual identities keeps the data image of the LUN mobile
and portable to another identical server in case of failure.
Note: Post deployment, the associated Identity pool is attached to the Server Template and cannot be modified.
The below mentioned steps must be followed to associate an identity pool to a template.
1. Go to the Deploy page by clicking Configuration > Deploy.
2. Select the base system template and click Edit Network.
3. Select the iSCSI Identity pool from the Identity pool dropdown.
4. Click Finish to associate the iSCSI identity pool with the base system template.
Creation of a
Base System
Capture
Template
Identity Pool
Creation
Associate
Identities
Deploy Template
Booting to SAN
via iSCSI