Users Guide

Deploying IOA conguration template
The Deploy Template task allows you to deploy an IOA conguration template on a target device.
Before you begin deploying an IOA device conguration template, ensure that:
• The deployment le share is congured. For more information, see Conguring the Deployment File Share.
• The target devices are added to the Repurpose and Bare Metal Devices group or a compute pool. For more information, see
Adding Devices to the Repurpose and Bare Metal Devices Group.
• You have created a device conguration template from an IOA.
• The target devices meet the requirements specied in Device Requirements for Deployment and Compliance Tasks.
NOTE: Ensure that the IOA template that you want to import has not been edited after it was created. Editing an IOA
template, compromises the integrity of the template. Therefore, deploying the edited IOA template results in a failure.
CAUTION: Deploying a conguration template on a device may result in potentially destructive changes to the device
conguration including performance, connectivity, and ability to boot the device.
To deploy the IOA conguration template:
1. Click Deployment.
The Deployment Portal is displayed.
2. Perform one of the following:
• In the Common Tasks pane, click Deploy Template.
• In the Templates pane, right-click the IOA template that you want to deploy, and click Deploy.
• In the Compute Pools pane, right-click a compute pool that has the target device, and then click Deploy.
The Deploy Template Wizard wizard is displayed.
3. On the Name and Deploy Options page:
a. Type an appropriate name for the task.
b. Under Deploy Target, select Bare Metal.
c. Under Select Deploy Options, select Deploy Template.
d. Click Next.
4. On the Select Template page:
a. Select the IOA template that you want to deploy.
NOTE: Only conguration templates that you have either created or cloned are available for selection.
b. Click Next.
5. If applicable, on the Select Virtual I/O Pool page, click Next.
6. On the Select Devices page, select the target devices from the All Applicable Devices tree, and click Next.
NOTE: Only devices added to the Repurpose and Bare Metal Devices group are available for selection.
7. On the Edit Attributes page:
a. Select a device from the Select Devices list.
b. Click the attribute group name to view the list of attributes in a group.
c. Select the attributes that you want to deploy.
d. Enter the values in the Value column based on your preference.
e. Click Save.
f. Click Next.
8. On the Options page:
• If you only want to verify if the device conguration template is deployed successfully, select Perform pre-check only.
NOTE: If the Perform pre-check only option is selected, by default the Continue on warnings option is disabled.
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