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The screen displays the firmware details of the servers in your collection and also the baseline
version of the firmware.
3. Select the servers, which you want to update with newer firmware and click Next.
The next screen displays the firmware download progress.
4. When the firmware download is complete, click Next to proceed to configure the hardware of the
systems.
Configuring hardware during OS deployment
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To configure the hardware:
Steps
1. Click Browse and select the hardware profile that you created using the System Viewer. This profile
is applied during the operating system deployment process. For more information on creating
hardware profiles, see
Creating a new profile.
2. Select Continue on Error if you want to proceed to the next step even if this step fails. This option is
selected by default. If you clear this option, the hardware configuration process is aborted when it
encounters an error.
3. Click Next to proceed to configure RAID.
Configuring RAID
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To configure RAID:
Steps
1. Click Browse and select the RAID profile that you created using the System Viewer utility. This profile
is applied during the operating system deployment process. For more information on creating RAID
profiles, see
Using the Array Builder.
2. Click Next to configure network adapters.
NOTE: When you configure RAID settings on a system, the original controller settings of the
system are reset and the virtual disks (VDs) that are configured, or any other configuration are
cleared.
Applying a NIC or CNA profile on a collection
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NOTE: In Config Utility, if you apply an attribute value, the dependent attribute value is not
checked.
Refer Lifecycle Controller documentation for supported CNAs.
To configure Network Adapters and apply a NIC/CNA profile on a collection:
Steps
1. Click Browse and select the NIC/CNA profile that you created using the System Viewer utility. This
profile is applied during the hardware configuration process. For more information on creating
NIC/CNA profiles, see Creating a NIC or CNA profile.
2. If you select a simple NIC profile you can validate if all the settings in the profile are applied on the
target system by launching the Unified Server Configurator on the target system.
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