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4 Server Hardware Provisioning and OS Deployment by using Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials
14 Create virtual I/O pools ............................................................................................................................................... 31
14.1 Virtual I/O pool definition .................................................................................................................................. 31
14.2 Types of identities ............................................................................................................................................. 31
14.2.1 MAC address definition ................................................................................................................................ 31
14.2.2 World Wide Node Name (WWNN) definition................................................................................................ 31
14.2.3 World Wide Port Name (WWPN) definition .................................................................................................. 32
14.2.4 IQN Definition ............................................................................................................................................... 32
14.3 Create Virtual I/O pools .................................................................................................................................... 32
14.3.1 Create an identity type definition from an import file .................................................................................... 33
14.4 Increase the size of Virtual I/O Pool ................................................................................................................. 34
14.4.1 Increase the size of start address‒based identity ........................................................................................ 34
14.4.2 Increase the size of import-based identity.................................................................................................... 34
14.5 Lock and unlock the Virtual I/O pool ................................................................................................................. 34
15 Create compute pool .................................................................................................................................................. 35
15.1 Components of a compute pool........................................................................................................................ 35
15.2 Create the compute pool .................................................................................................................................. 35
15.3 Add devices to the compute pool ..................................................................................................................... 35
16 Deploy compute pools ................................................................................................................................................ 36
16.1 Requirements for deploying Compute Pools in OpenManage Essentials........................................................ 36
16.2 Deploy the compute pool .................................................................................................................................. 36
16.3 Compute pool lock ............................................................................................................................................ 37
17 Deploy template to bare-metal devices ...................................................................................................................... 38
17.1 Prerequisites for deploying templates in OpenManage Essentials .................................................................. 38
17.2 Purpose and definition of the ‘Repurpose and Bare-metal’ device group ........................................................ 38
17.2.1 Add devices to the ‘Repurpose and Bare-metal’ device group .................................................................... 38
17.3 Deploy the template .......................................................................................................................................... 39
17.3.1 Deploy the template to servers .................................................................................................................... 39
17.3.2 Edit the device-specific attributes of the deploy template task .................................................................... 40
18 Configure VLANs on the server-facing ports of IOAs during template deployment on the server ............................. 42
18.1 Deploy the template to servers along with VLAN configuration of associated IOA ports ................................. 42
19 Configure VLANs on server-facing ports of IOAs in MX7000 chassis during template deployment on the server ... 43
19.1 Deploy the template to servers along with Network and VLAN configuration .................................................. 43
20 Automatically deploy templates in OpenManage Essentials ..................................................................................... 44