Users Guide

Contents 5
4 Zero-Touch Hardware Provisioning and
Deployment
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Hardware Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Overview
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Understanding Deployment Job Times
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Server States Within the Deployment Sequence
. . . . 61
Configure a Hardware Profile
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Setting Collect System Inventory on Restart (CSIOR)
on a Clone Server
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Create New Hardware Profile
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Managing Hardware Profiles
. . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Configure a Hypervisor Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Create New Hypervisor Profile
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Managing Hypervisor Profiles
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Building a Deployment Template
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Managing Deployment Templates
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Running the Deployment Wizard
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Managing Deployment Jobs Using the Deployment
Job Queue
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Server Security Settings for Deployment
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5 Firmware Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Enter Global Firmware Repository Location . . . . . . 77
Update Individual Server Firmware
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