Users Guide

Work flows

This section contains the following work flows:

• Capturing Golden Configuration

• Hypervisor Deployment

• Understanding Server Deletion

About Golden Configurations

A server configured with the preferred Boot sequence, BIOS and RAID settings ideally suited for the

organization is referred to as golden configuration. These setting are captured in a hardware profile and

deployed on identical servers during hypervisor deployments.

Capturing Golden Configurations

To prepare and use a golden configuration:

1. Ensure that the server with the ideal configuration is discovered and available. For more information

on server discovery, depending on the requirement, see Discovering Servers Using Auto Discovery or

Discovering Servers Using Manual Discovery.

2. To record the ideal configuration you must create a hardware profile. To create a hardware profile,

see Creating Hardware Profile.

3. If you want to modify configurations, then see Modifying Hardware Configuration Profile.

Hypervisor Deployment

You can use the appliance to perform hypervisor deployment based on the golden configuration, and

leverage LC Driver Injection feature for the factory delivered servers that ship with the latest driver packs.

Also, you can update the driver packs and get the same benefits of installing latest drivers during

hypervisor deployments.

If you require the latest factory drivers and out-of-

band drivers

While creating a hypervisor profile, enable LC

(Lifecycle Controller) driver injection.

If you want to retain the existing hardware

configuration

While creating a deployment template, select only

the hypervisor profile.

To work with hypervisor deployment, see the following:

1. About Deployment