Administrator Guide

7  ServerCloningwithServerConfigurationProfiles 
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ThetablesfoundintheAppendicesdescribetheformatofeveryattributethatmaybeimpactedbasedonthetypeof
exportperformed.ThereasonforthebehaviorisprovidedintheStatecolumn.
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LimitationsofVirtualDiskRAIDactionofAutoCreate 
WhenaServerConfigurationProfilecloneisexported,theVirtualDisk RAIDaction of CreateAuto hasthefollowing
limitations:
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 WhenaVirtualDiskiscreatedusingasetofphysicaldisks,anyremainingfreespacewillnotbereusedfor
subsequentVirtualDisks.
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 PhysicaldisksofdifferentsizesconnectedtothesamePERCRAIDcontrollermaynotbeefficientlyused.
ThecreatedVirtualDisk(s)willuseasetofphysicaldiskswithoutregardtowastedspace.
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 Multi‐spanVirtualDiskRAIDlevelssuchasRAID50maynotworkbeyondtheminimumspanlengthand
depth.
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Becauseoftheselimitations,notallVirtualDisksmaybecreatedwhentheclonedProfileisimportedtoatarget
server.Toresolvetheselimitations,theexportedcloneServerConfigurationProfileshouldbemodified.Thefollowing
itemsineachtheVirtualDiskcomponentsectionoftheProfilemustbemodifiedto
usespecificphysicaldisksforthe
VirtualDisk;themodificationsinclude:
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 Changethe RAIDAction tothevalue “Create”: 
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<AttributeName="RAIDaction">Create</Attribute> 
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 Un‐commenttheIncludedPhysicalDiskIDattributes: 
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<Attr i bu te  N ame= " I ncl ud e dP hy sic al D i sk I D " >D i sk . Bay . 0:Enclo su r e. Inter na l . 0 ‐ 1 : RA I D . I ntegrat ed. 1 ‐ 1 </ Att ri bu te > 
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 Un‐commentthe SpanDepth and SpanLength attributes: 
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<AttributeName="SpanDepth">1</Attribute> 
<AttributeName="SpanLength">3</Attribute> 
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 ChangetheRAIDPDStatetothevalue “Ready”: 
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<AttributeName="RAIDPDState">Ready</Attribute> 
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Seethesample RAIDAction XMLfilesinthe Appendixfordetailsonapplyingtheseedits. 
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Usingprofileex portPreview 
Insomecircumstances,thetargetservertowhichanSCPisbeingimported maynotexactlymatchthesourceserver.
Considertwosystems,anR630andanR730thatdifferintheirnetworkcardsorintheirstoragecontrollers.Takingan
SCPfromtheR630andapplyingitdirectlytothe
R730wouldresultinerrorsduetothesedifferences.Theusercan
identifysectionsofthesourceSCPthatwouldcauseerrorsbyutilizingthe
Preview functionality. 