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5 How to replace a server in a stateless environment
Example use case – A server in your stateless environment experienced a hardware failure. You need to
transfer the workload of the failing server to a new server.
To accomplish this use case you must perform the following steps.
Prerequisites:
1. The source device must have been deployed from OME from a compute pool using virtual IO.
2. The target device must be in the same compute pool as the source.
Steps:
1. Add the target device to the ‘Repurpose and Bare Metal’ device group if not already. (See the
How
to add devices to the ‘Repurpose and Bare Metal’ device group section).
2. Add the target device to the compute pool of the source device if it is not already.
3. Complete the replace server wizard to initiate the replace server task.
4. Verify the task succeeded in the task execution history.
Note: The virtual identities of the source server are deployed to the target server during this operation. If
OME is unable to connect to the source and physically remove the identities, it will lead to network
conflicts later if it is reconnected to the network.
The wizard will not be accessible if the prerequisites are not met.
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