Users Guide

• Deploying Operational Template on servers

• Assigning Operational Template for Modular Systems

• Deploying Operational Template for Modular System

• Unassigning Operational Template

Predened Operational Templates

Predened templates have all the congurations that are required to create Storage Spaces Direct clusters or Windows Server Software-

Dened (WSSD). OMIMSSC supports creating clusters on R740XD and R640 Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node models along with their

specic network adapters.

Table 3. List of predened Operational Templates

Operational Template name Description

R740XD_Mellanox_S2D_Template Use this template for R740XD Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node

models having Mellanox card.

R740XD_QLogic_S2D_Template Use this template for R740XD Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node

models having QLogic card.

R640_Mellanox_S2D_Template Use this template for R640 Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node

models having Mellanox card.

R640_QLogic_S2D_Template Use this template for R640 Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node

models having QLogic card.

Consider the following points before deploying an Operational Template:

• The predened templates are available only for management systems running SC2016 VMM.

• The predened Storage Spaces Direct template shows NIC card in slot 1. However, while deploying the Operational Template the NIC

conguration is applied on the right slot. And if there are multiple NIC cards on the device, all the NIC cards are congured with the

same conguration that is specied in the Operational Template.

Creating Operational Template from reference servers

Prerequisites

Before creating Operational Template, ensure that you complete the following tasks:

• Discover a reference server by using the Discovery feature. For information about discovering servers, see Discovering servers using

manual discovery.

• For SCCM users:

– Create a task sequence. For more information, see Creating task sequence.

– For non-Windows operating system deployment, have a device type credential prole. For more information, see Creating credential

prole.

• For SCVMM users:

– Create a hypervisor prole. For information about creating hypervisor prole, see Creating hypervisor prole.

– For Windows deployment, have a device type credential prole. For more information, see Creating credential prole.

• If you are not using the default update source, and then create an update source. For more information, see Creating update source.

About this task

You can create an Operational Template by capturing the conguration of the reference server. After capturing the conguration, you can

directly save the template, or edit the attributes for update source, hardware conguration, and Windows component as per your

requirement. Now you can save the template, which can be used on PowerEdge homogeneous servers.

Steps

1 In OMIMSSC, do any of the following to open an Operational Template:

Managing Operational Templates