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4 How to deploy in a stateless environment
Example use case – You want to deploy and manage servers in a virtualized environment connected to a
storage area network. You want the configuration of one well formatted server deployed to other servers
and you want the servers to use virtual identities created from manageable virtual identity definitions.
To accomplish this use case you must perform the following steps.
1. Get the configuration from the device that is already configured and save it in OME as a template.
(See the How to create a template from a reference device
section).
2. Create the definitions of the identities you wish to deploy. This is accomplished in OME by creating
a “Virtual IO Pool”. (See the How to create a Virtual IO Pool
section).
3. Create a deployment definition that describes what to deploy and what servers to deploy against.
This is accomplished in OME by creating a “Compute Pool”. (See the
How to create a Compute
Pool section).
4. Deploy the compute pool deployment definition to the target devices. (See the How to deploy a
Compute Pool section).
Note: Creating a template and deploying a template have requirements for the OME system and for the
target devices.
To review the requirements for deploying a template, see the Deploy requirements section.
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