Users Guide

Capture baseline configuration using cluster

profile

Cluster profile

A cluster profile enables you to capture the configuration baseline (hardware configuration, firmware, or driver versions) and

maintain the required state for clusters by identifying any drift against the configuration baseline.

To create a cluster profile, ensure that you have any one of these profiles: system profile, firmware repository profile, driver

repository profile, or its combinations. Dell EMC recommends using homogeneous servers (same model, same hardware

configuration, and same firmware level) for the clusters being baselined.

● After the cluster profile is created, firmware and driver repository profiles must be parsed before it can be used for a cluster

profile creation.

● After the cluster profile is created, a current snapshot of the associated firmware and driver repository is created for the

baseline. If the original repositories change, the cluster profile must be updated again to reflect the changes. Else, any

updates that are performed on the original repositories are not updated to the cluster profile snapshots.

● After the cluster profile is created, it triggers the drift detection job.

● When a cluster is associated with a cluster profile, it overrides previous cluster profile associations, if any.

● If multiple standalone vCenters are registered to OMIVV, Dell EMC recommends creating separate cluster profiles for each

vCenter.

● Baselining of drivers is supported only on vSAN clusters.

NOTE: The drivers installed outside of OMIVV is not considered for baseline.

Related tasks

Create cluster profile on page 49

Edit cluster profile on page 50

View cluster profile on page 51

Delete cluster profile on page 51

Create cluster profile

● To create a cluster profile, ensure that you have any one of these profiles—System Profile, Firmware Repository Profile,

Driver Repository Profile, or its combinations.

● Cluster must be present in the vCenter.

● Host credential profile must be created for at least one host in cluster and inventoried successfully.

1. On the OMIVV home page, Compliance & Deployment > Profiles > Cluster Profile > CREATE NEW PROFILE.

2. On the Cluster Profile page of the wizard, read the instructions, and click GET STARTED.

3. On the Profile name and Description page, enter the profile name and description, and then click NEXT.

Profile name can be up to 200 characters and description can be up to 400 characters.

4. On the Associate Profile (s) page, select any one of the following profiles, or its combinations:

● System Profile—Selecting a system profile sets the configuration baseline for the servers in the cluster. For Basic and

Advanced system profile types, the system profile name is displayed in the following format: Basic_<system profile

name>, Advanced_<system profile name>

● Firmware Repository Profile—Selecting a firmware repository creates the firmware or BIOS baseline for the servers in

the cluster. Online repositories are not supported for baselining vSAN clusters.

● Driver Repository Profile—Selecting a driver repository creates the driver baseline for the servers in the cluster. At a

time, you can associate a maximum of 10 drivers to a baseline. Baselining of drivers is supported only on vSAN clusters.

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