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Creating or customizing hardware profile

1. In OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, on the Manage > Deployment tab, select Deployment Templates > Hardware

Profiles.

2. Click the icon.

3. In the Hardware Profile Wizard, click Next on the Welcome page and do the following:

• In the Profile Name text box, enter the profile name.

• In the Description text box, type a description. The description is optional.

4. Click Next.

The Reference Server dialog box is displayed. You can either select reference servers from the dialog box directly or through the

browse button in the reference server window.

5. Select a reference server by performing either of the following substeps:

• In the Reference Server dialog box, choose the right reference server, and click the Select link against the reference server.

The Extract Confirmation dialog box that states extracting the settings is displayed. To extract the hardware configuration from

reference server, in the Extract Confirmation dialog box, click Yes, and the extracting is completed in few minutes.

• In the Reference Server page, click Browse to select a compliant reference server that is managed and successfully inventoried by

OMIVV, or a compliant bare-metal server.

To extract the hardware configuration from reference server, in the Extract Confirmation dialog box, click Yes.

The selected Server name, the iDRAC IP address, model, and Service Tag are displayed in the Reference Server page.

6. In the Reference Server page, to customize the reference server settings, click Customize Reference Server Settings, and choose

the following settings that can be optionally included and customized:

• RAID Settings

• BIOS Settings

• Boot Order

• iDRAC Settings

• Network Settings

• User List

7. In the RAID Configuration window, select one of the following, and click Next:

• Apply RAID1 + create a dedicated hot spare, if applicable—use this option, if you want to apply default RAID configuration

settings to the target server. The RAID configuration task defaults to RAID1 on the first two drives of the integrated controller that

are RAID1 capable. Also, a dedicated hot-spare for the RAID1 array is created, if a candidate drive that meets the RAID criteria

exists.

• Clone RAID configuration from the reference server as shown below—use this option, if you want to clone the reference

server setting.

8. In the BIOS Settings page, to include BIOS setting information in the profile, expand a category to display the setting options, and click

Edit to update one of the following:

• System Information

• Memory Settings

• Processor Settings

• SATA Settings

• Boot Settings

• One-Time Boot

• Integrated Devices

• Slot Disablement

• Serial Communication

• System Profile Settings

• System Security

• Miscellaneous Settings

After all updates are made for a category, to save the changes, click Next, or to cancel the changes, click Cancel.

NOTE:

For detailed BIOS information, including setting options and explanations, see the

Hardware Owner’s Manual

for the selected server.

9. In the Boot Order page, do the following and click Next:

a) To display boot order options, expand Boot Order, and then click Edit to make the following updates:

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