White Papers

Executive Summary
Stateless computing provides a powerful abstraction that allows workloads to seamlessly move from
hardware to hardware and scale workloads. Maintaining a stateless environment and quickly responding to
errors is difficult. OpenManage Essentials (OME) version 2.1 introduces new features to manage hardware
in a stateless environment. This white paper covers using the new stateless features.
This white paper also covers the OME 2.0 device configuration features. The device configuration features
(deploying bare metal devices, auto deploy, configuration compliance) have changed and are important to
understand in order to compliment the stateless feature set. Best practices and troubleshooting for the
stateless and bare metal deployment and configuration are also included.
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