Users Guide

Workflows

This section contains the following workflows:

• Creating golden configurations

• Creating and managing credential profiles

• Creating and managing update sources

• Creating and managing custom update groups

• Applying updates on servers

• Deploying hypervisors

• Creating, managing and deleting protection vaults

• Exporting server profiles

• Importing server profiles

• Deleting servers

• Configuring replaced components

• Collecting and viewing LC logs

About golden configurations

A server configuration with the preferred Boot sequence, BIOS, and RAID settings ideally suited for the organization is referred to as

golden configuration. These settings are gathered in a hardware profile and deployed on identical servers during hypervisor

deployments.

Creating 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. Ensure that the server’s inventory is up-to-date. For more information, see Viewing and refreshing firmware inventory.

3. To record the ideal configuration, create a hardware profile. To create a hardware profile, see Creating hardware profile.

4. If you want to modify configurations, see Modifying hardware configuration profile.

Creating, managing, and deleting credential profiles

To create a credential profile, see Creating a credential profile.

To manage a credential profile, see Modifying a credential profile.

To delete a credential profile, see Deleting a credential profile.