Users Guide

Deployment job timing
The provisioning and deploying of bare-metal servers can take between 30 minutes to several hours to complete, depending on several
factors. When starting a deployment job, Dell EMC recommends that you plan your deployment time according to the guidelines provided.
The amount of time it takes to complete provisioning and deployment varies with deployment type, complexity, and number of deployment
jobs running simultaneously. The following table provides the approximate time a deployment job can take: The deployment jobs are run in
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.
NOTE: The following table displays the average value, and may vary based on factors like configuration of the server,
Gen of the server, and number of bare metal servers scheduled for deployment.
Table 36. Approximate deployment time
Deployment type Approximate time per deployment
Hypervisor only Between 30–130 30 minutes 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 or manually 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 in a deployment job. The following are the states:
Table 37. 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. Open a browser and navigate to support.dell.com.
2. Click Browse all products > Servers > PowerEdge.
3. Click a PowerEdge server model.
4. Click Drivers & Downloads page of the server model.
5. From the Operating System drop-down, select the ESXi version.
6. From the Category drop-down menu, select Enterprise Solutions.
7. In the Enterprise Solutions list, select the required version of ISO, and then click Download.
Deploying hypervisor
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