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5 Server Hardware Provisioning and OS Deployment by using Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials
20.1 Auto-deploy requirements ................................................................................................................................ 44
20.2 Set up auto-deploy of a template ...................................................................................................................... 44
20.2.1 Create a Service Tag CSV file ..................................................................................................................... 44
20.2.2 Set up stateless auto-deploy of the template to the server Service Tags .................................................... 44
20.2.3 Set up bare-metal auto deploy of the template to server Service Tags ....................................................... 45
20.2.4 Modify the auto-deployment settings ........................................................................................................... 47
21 Deploy network ISO image file ................................................................................................................................... 48
21.1 Deploy network ISO image requirements ......................................................................................................... 48
21.2 Deploy network ISO image ............................................................................................................................... 48
22 Troubleshooting issues in hardware and OS deployment on servers monitored by OpenManage Essentials ......... 50
22.1 Troubleshooting the file share .......................................................................................................................... 50
22.2 Troubleshoot the template creation process in OpenManage Essentials ........................................................ 52
22.3 Troubleshoot the virtual I/O pool creation in OpenManage Essentials ............................................................ 53
22.4 Troubleshoot the template deployment ............................................................................................................ 53
22.5 Troubleshoot the auto-deploy templates .......................................................................................................... 54
22.6 Troubleshootsure the network ISO deployment ............................................................................................... 55
23 Boot-from-SAN considerations ................................................................................................................................... 56
23.1 Boot-from-SAN by using iSCSI ......................................................................................................................... 56
23.2 Boot-from-SAN by using FC or FCoE .............................................................................................................. 58
24 Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 59