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to each port. WWNN and WWPN identities are required to support boot-from-SAN and for data
access using FC and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols.
• iSCSI identity which is defined by the iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN). IQN identities are required to
support boot-from-SAN using the iSCSI protocol.
OpenManage Essentials utilizes the virtual I/O pools to automatically assign virtual I/O identities to the
device configuration template that is used for deploying a server.
NOTE: A virtual I/O pool can be associated with one or more compute pools.
Related Tasks
Creating a Virtual I/O Pool
Editing a Virtual I/O Pool
Viewing the Definitions of a Virtual I/O Pool
Renaming a Virtual I/O Pool
Deleting a Virtual I/O Pool
Creating a Virtual I/O Pool
You can create a virtual I/O pool that contains one or more virtual I/O identity types.
To create a pool of virtual I/O identity types:
1. Click Deployment.
The Deployment Portal is displayed.
2. Perform one of the following:
• On the left pane, under Common Tasks, click Create Virtual I/O Pool.
• On the left pane, under Virtual I/O Pools, right-click Virtual I/O Pools → Create Virtual I/O Pool.
The Create Virtual I/O Pool Wizard is displayed.
3. On the Name and Description page, type a unique name for the virtual I/O pool and an appropriate
description, and then click Next.
4. On the Ethernet Identities page, perform one of the following:
NOTE: If you do not want to include MAC addresses in the virtual I/O pool, clear the Include
MAC addresses in this pool option, and then click Next.
a. If you want to provide a prefix for the MAC addresses that will be generated, click Specify a prefix
to allocate from and perform the following:
1. In the Number of predefined octets box, type or select the number of octets that you want
to predefine in the MAC addresses that will be generated.
NOTE: The octet values you define must not match with a multicast or broadcast
address. If you provide 00 as the value for all the octets, the first value of the last octet
that is generated is 01.
2. Type the octet values that you want to define in the appropriate fields, and then click Next.
b. If you want to import the MAC addresses from a .csv file, click Import from file and perform the
following:
NOTE: You can import up to 1000 identities using a .csv file. The .csv file must have a
column titled Name or Value.
1. Click Import.
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