Administrator Guide

3  ServerCloningwithServerConfigurationProfiles 
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Executivesummary 
Moderndatacenteradministratorsrequireefficientandautomatedmethodstorapidlyprepareserversforproduction
use.TheDellPowerEdgeservers’embeddedintegratedDellRemoteAccessController(iDRAC)withLifecycle
Controllerprovidestheabilitytocaptureanentireconfigurationinasinglehuman‐readableoutputcalledaServer
ConfigurationProfile.Thisprofilecan
beappliedtomultipleservers,enablingrapid,reliableandreproducible
configuration.Anadministratorcancloneorreplicateaprofile,modifythatprofileasneede d,andthenpreviewthe
deploymentonatargetserver.Beingabletotakethesestepssavestimeandminimizesconfigu rationerrors,thereby
reducingtheneedfor
manualinterventionanddecreasingconfigurationtime.Thiswhitepaperdescribesthebehavior
ofthesefeaturesandexaminessampleuses cases.
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