White Papers

Executive summary
6 Server Hardware Provisioning and OS Deployment by using Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials
1 Executive summary
With OpenManage Essentials (OME) version 2.5, basic and intuitive guidance is now provided to set up first
restart and update network settings in a server configuration template. These are very common use cases
intercepted in a server’s lifecycle.
This technical white paper discusses about:
• Configuring VLANs on Dell EMC Networking IOAs included within server template deployment
workflows.
• Stateless computing provides a powerful abstraction that allows workloads to seamlessly move from
hardware to hardware and scale workloads. Maintaining a stateless environment and quickly
responding to errors is difficult.
• The device configuration features (deploying bare-metal devices and auto deployment) have
changed, and are important to understand in order to compliment the stateless feature set. Best
practices and troubleshooting for the stateless and bare-metal deployment are also included.