Active System Manager Release 8.2 User’s Guide

Server settings

Table 1. Server settings
Options	Description
Hardware Settings
Target Boot Device	Specifies the target boot device. The options available are — Boot from SAN (FC), Local Hard Drive Boot From SAN (iSCSI) , None, None (With RAID Configuration), SD with RAID enabled, and SD with RAID disabled. NOTE: The SD with RAID enabled option allows you to boot from the SD and then proceed with creating the RAID virtual disks.
RAID	You can configure RAID using this feature. The following options are available to configure RAID Level: Basic RAID Level Advanced RAID Configuration Basic RAID Level: Select Basic RAID Level option, and then select RAID level from the Basic RAID Level drop-down menu. ASM supports external and internal RAID controllers using the Advanced RAID Configuration feature. Advanced RAID Configuration: If you select Advanced RAID Configuration, You get two buttons Add Internal Virtual Disks , Add External Virtual Disk. There are 4 settings under Add Internal Virtual Disks, Add External Virtual Disk: Virtual Disk: Lists the ID number of the virtual disk. RAID Level: Select RAID level from the drop-down menu. # of Disks: Select number of disks according to the selected RAID level. You may specify "Minimum" or "Exactly" to determine whether ASM should create the virtual disk with the exact number of drives or use as many drives as available. NOTE: If the number of selected disks is not correct for the chosen RAID level, template validation does not allow you to proceed further. Disk Type: Select disk type from the drop-down menu. You can select Any Available, Require HDD, or Require SDD to specify the type of drives to be selected for the virtual disk. A virtual disk cannot be created with a mix of SSD and HDD. There is feature, Enable Global Hotspares. This option is available for both Add Internal Virtual Disk and Add External Virtual Disk. By using this feature, you can specify number of hot spares you want to set for disk. NOTE: ASM supports MD1400 and manages MD1400DAS through second RAID Controller. ASM provides the ability to configure a second RAID controller to support the MD 1400 external storage array. In order to support this, you must have a second PERC device in your system. It is recommended to use the PERC H830 storage controller with the MD 1400.
Server Pool	Specifies the pool from which servers are selected for the deployment.
BIOS Settings
System Profile	Select the system power and performance profile for the server.
User Accessible USB Ports	Enables or disables the user accessible USB ports.
Number of Cores per Processor	Specifies the number of enabled cores per processor.
Virtualization Technology	If this is enabled, the additional hardware capabilities provided by virtualization technology are enabled.
Logical Processors	Each processor core supports up to two logical processors. If enabled, the BIOS reports all logical processors. If disabled, the BIOS reports only one logical processor per core.
Node Interleaving	If the system is configured with matching memory, enables memory node interleaving. If disabled the system supports nonuniform memory architecture memory configurations. NOTE: Ensure that you disable the Node-Interleave option in the server BIOS when creating a virtual machine on a HyperV server.
Execute Disable	Enables or disable execute disable memory protection.
OS Settings
Auto-generate Host Name	Auto generate host name option is displayed on Server Component window for generating host name. If you already auto generated host name on Server Component window, Auto generate host name option will not be display. If you select the Auto-generate Host Name check box, a Host Name Template field is displayed. On Host Name Template field, type unique host name for deployment. You must use variable while generating host name. For Example: It can be service tag or Service tag+ Vendor+ Unique number. If you clear Auto-generate Host Name check box, Host Name Template field is disappeared. NOTE: Auto- generate Host name feature is applicable for both the server, server(O/S Installation only). In case of multiple instances of deployment, you have to select Auto- generate Host name option. NOTE: When you have static assigned IP and if you have DNS configured in template, DNS use the IP to lookup the hostname and use it as hostname for the deployment.
OS Image	Specifies the target repository where the OS image install files are located. The default repositories are ESXi. The additional repositories are shown if the user created them on the ASM appliance. NOTE: You can select Red Hat Linux, Cent OS, Windows, Hyper-V, ESXi from the OS Image drop-down menu. It is upgraded with Linux 7, Cent OS 7 from this release. NOTE: If you select an operating system from the OS Image drop-down menu, the field NTP Server is displayed.. This is an optional component for all operating systems except Hyper-V, but we highly recommend you to enter an NTP server IP in the field to ensure proper time synchronization with your environment and ASM appliance. Sometimes when time is not properly synchronized, service deployment failure can occur. NOTE: If you want to add more than one NTP server in the OS section of a server component, make sure to separate the IP addresses using comma (,).
Administrator password	Enter the administrator password that set on the installed OS.
Confirm administrator password	Enter to confirm the administrator password.
Select iSCSI Initiator	Select one of the following: Hardware Initiator Software Initiator NOTE: iSCSI Initiator is only supported with VMware. Also, this option is supported only on the EqualLogic iSCSI storage and Compellent iSCSI storage.
Install EqualLogic MEM	If the value is `True`, install EqualLogic Multipathing Extension Module.
Product Key	Specifies the product key to install the OS image on the server.
Timezone	Specifies the time zone of the server.
NTP Server	Specifies the IP address of the NTP server for time synchronization. If you want to add more than one NTP server in the OS section of a server component, make sure to separate the IP addresses using comma (,).
Language	Specifies the language to be displayed in the installed operating system. That is, Windows operating system.
Keyboard	Specifies the key board language to be used during Windows installation.
Domain Name	Specifies the domain name to which you want to add the host. For example, aidev
FQ Domain Name	Specifies the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) to which you want to add the host. For example, aidev.com
Domain Admin Username	Specifies the username to access the domain.
Domain Admin Password	Specifies the admin password to add the host to the domain.
Domain Admin Password Confirm	Enables you to reconfirm the admin password to add the host to the domain.
Network Settings
Add New Interface	Click Add New Interface option to create a network interface in a template server component. Under this interface all network settings are specified for a server. This interface is used to find a compatible server in inventory, for example if "Two Port, 10 gigabit" is added to the template, when the template is deployed ASM will match a server which has a two port 10 gigabit network card as it's first interface. For more information on adding a new interface, see Adding New Interface.
Static Network Default Gateway	Select the default gateway IP address for routing network traffic.
Identity Pool	Select the virtual identity pool from which virtual identities (MAC address and WWPN/WWNN) are selected for boot from SAN deployment.

NOTE: After entering the information about PXE network in the respective field as described in the table above, ASM will untag vLANs entered by the user in the PXE network on the switch server facing port. In case of vMotion and Hypervisor network, for the entered information ASM tags these networks on the switch server-facing ports. In case of Rack Server, ASM will configure those vLANs on TOR server facing ports (untag PXE vLANs, and tag other vLANs). In the case for Blade Servers, ASM will configure those vLANs on the IOM server facing ports(untag PXE vLANs and tag other vLANs).

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Server settings

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