Deployment Guide

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 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 ...................................................................................... 9
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. Selecting the Use VLAN check box. .................................................................... 8
Figure 3. Job Queue ................................................................................................ 10
Figure 4. Purge deployment jobs ................................................................................. 10