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Predefined Operational Templates

Predefined templates have all the configurations that are required to create Storage Spaces Direct clusters or Windows Server Software-

Defined (WSSD). OMIMSSC supports creating clusters on R740XD, R740XD2, and R640 Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node models

along with their specific network adapters.

Table 3. List of predefined Operational Templates

Operational Template name Description

R740XD_Mellanox_S2D_Template

Use this template for R740XD Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node

models having Mellanox card.

R740XD2_Mellanox_S2D_Template

Use this template for R740XD2 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.

R740XD2_QLogic_S2D_Template Use this template for R740XD2 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 predefined templates are available only for management systems running SCVMM 2016 and 2019.

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

configuration is applied on the right slot. And if there are multiple NIC cards on the device, all the NIC cards are configured with the

same configuration that is specified in the Operational Template.

Creating Operational Template from reference

servers

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 profile. For more information, see Creating

credential profile.

• For SCVMM users:

• Create a hypervisor profile. For information about creating hypervisor profile, see Creating hypervisor profile.

• For Windows deployment, have a device type credential profile. For more information, see Creating credential profile.

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

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

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

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

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

• In the OMIMSSC dashboard, click Create Operational Template.

• In the navigation pane, click Profiles > Operational Template, and then click Create.

The Operational Template wizard is displayed.

2. Enter a name and description for the template.

3. Select the type of device, and enter the IP address of reference device, and then click Next.

Managing Operational Templates