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batches of up to five concurrent servers to improve time for the overall deployment job. The exact number of concurrent jobs depends on
available resources.
Table 37. Approximate deployment time
Deployment type Approximate time per deployment
Hypervisor only Between 30 to 130 minutes
Hypervisor and hardware profiles 1–4 hours
System profile only 5–6 minutes
System profile and hypervisor profile 30–40 minutes
Server states within deployment sequence
When an inventory job is run, the auto/maually discovered bare-metal systems are classified in different states to help determine if the
server is new to the data center or has a pending deployment job scheduled. The administrators can use these states to determine if a
server should be included in a deployment job. The following are the states:
Table 38. Server states in the deployment sequence
Server state Description
Unconfigured The server has contacted OMIVV and is waiting to be configured.
Configured The server is configured with all hardware information that is
required for a successful hypervisor deployment.
Downloading custom Dell EMC ISO images
The custom ESXi images that contain all Dell drivers are required for deployment.
1. Navigate to support.dell.com.
2. Click Choose from all products > Servers, Storage, & Networking.
3. Under Select a product, click PowerEdge.
4. Click a PowerEdge server model.
5. Click Drivers & Downloads page of the server model.
6. Click the Change OS link, and select an ESXi system you want.
7. Click Enterprise Solutions.
8. In the Enterprise Solutions list, select the required version of ISO, and then click Download.
Deploying hypervisor
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