Users Guide

Managing Operational Templates

Operational Templates contain complete device configuration and are used for deploying operating system and update firmware for

PowerEdge servers and Modular Systems within Microsoft environment.

Operational Template replicates hardware and firmware of a reference server (golden server) on to many other servers while provisioning

for operating systems. It contains firmware, hardware, and operating system components with its attribute set with current value of the

reference server. These values can be modified before applying this template across devices. Also, you can check the compliance status

against an assigned Operational Template and view the compliance report in a summary page.

Only these components that are available in the reference server would be retrieved and displayed as Operational Template components

dynamically. For example, if the server does not have an FC component, the same is not displayed in the Operational Template.

For information about reference server and reference Modular System, see About reference server configuration and About reference

Modular System configuration.

The following table describes the components that are listed in Operational Template and viewing and deploying capabilities of each

component:

Table 2. Functionality of Operational Template

Component Deploy Configuration Firmware update View Configuration Operational Template

compliance status

BIOS Yes Yes Yes Yes

iDRAC Yes Yes Yes Yes

NIC/CNA Yes Yes Yes Yes

RAID Yes Yes Yes Yes

FC Yes Yes Yes Yes

Windows Yes — No —

RHEL Yes — No —

ESXI Yes — No —

Management Module Yes Yes Yes Yes

Topics:

• Predefined Operational Templates

• Creating Operational Template from reference servers

• Creating Operational Template from reference Modular Systems

• Viewing Operational Template

• Modifying Operational Template

• Configuring system specific values (Pool values) using Operational Template on multiple servers

• Deleting Operational Template

• Assigning Operational Template and running Operational Template compliance for servers

• Deploying Operational Template on servers

• Assigning Operational Template for Modular Systems

• Deploying Operational Template for Modular System

• Unassigning Operational Template

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