HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration: ESXi OS Deployment

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Technical white paper: ESXi OS Deployment

b. In the Config tab, provide the Name.

c. Specify the Individual Disk Size.

d. Optionally, specify a Cost per GB.

e. Select

FC-SAN

Storage Type.

f. Select the desired RAID Level.

g. Do NOT select the Disk is bootable checkbox.

h. Select the

Shareable…

i. Define redundancy as appropriate

j. Optionally, specify Tags.

7. To configure the server group, right-click the icon representing the server group, and select the

Edit Server Group

Configuration

option to display the Configure Server Group page.

a. In the Config tab, provide the Group Name.

b. Select

Physical

from the Server Type list.

c. Optionally, specify a Cost per Server.

d. Select

for both the Initial and Maximum Number of Servers.

e. Select the number of Processors per Server.

f. Specify the Memory Size.

g. Specify the Processor Speed.

h. Select the Processor Architecture.

i. In the Networks tab, provide the pattern for Hostname, including the ‘#’ character to be replaced by the

hostname completion string when a service is created.

j. Confirm that the deployment network interface is the Primary Interface.

k. Select the either

DHCP

None/External

Assignment Type for each network.

Note

For the deployment network, DHCP will actually be used. For the other networks, the new

None/External

choice (introduced with Matrix 7.3) should be specified in the template, because the final IP addresses will be

set later when the ESXi host networking is configured (either manually or by applying a host profile.

l. In the Software tab, select

Automatic software deployment

m. Select the Insight Control server provisioning or Insight Control server deployment OS software source

created earlier.

8. Optionally, click

Cost

to review the template costs.

9. If using Insight Control server provisioning, optionally define user-defined properties to automatically configure

network switches. (See the following section Automatic configuration of the ESXi host service console on the

management network using Insight Control server provisioning for more details). Alternatively, you can later

manually configure the switch as described in the Manual configuration of the ESXi host service console on the

management network section.

10. Be sure that the Validation Status icon indicates that the template is valid.

11. Select the

Published

checkbox to publish the template.

12. Click

Save

to save the template.

13. Navigate to the HP Matrix OE visualization (http://<CMS_IP_address>:280/).