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Hypervisor Deployment using the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter
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Contents
Executive summary ................................................................................................... 4
Introduction ........................................................................................................... 4
The Deployment Wizard ............................................................................................. 4
Select servers ........................................................................................................ 5
Deployment template............................................................................................... 5
Creating a new deployment template .......................................................................... 5
Hardware profile .................................................................................................... 6
Creating a hardware profile ..................................................................................... 6
Selecting the reference server .................................................................................. 6
Hypervisor profile ................................................................................................... 7
Creating a hypervisor profile .................................................................................... 7
Global settings ....................................................................................................... 7
Server identification ................................................................................................ 7
Connection profile .................................................................................................. 8
Creating a connection profile.................................................................................... 8
Selecting a connection profile ................................................................................... 9
Schedule job ......................................................................................................... 9
The Job Queue ........................................................................................................ 9
Deployment jobs .................................................................................................... 10
Conclusion ............................................................................................................ 11
Figures
Figure 1. Deployment Wizard ...................................................................................... 5
Figure 2. Job Queue ................................................................................................ 10
Figure 3. Purge deployment jobs ................................................................................. 10