Hello everyone, my name is Brian, and I am a Global Support Engineer who specializes in modular systems and the MX7000 chassis. Today, we are going to go over how to deploy server templates to chassis slots. We are in the landing page of a two-chassis group, and I am logged in as root with administrative access.
To start the process, we go to the 'Configuration' drop-down and select 'Templates', where we can select the template that we want to deploy. From here, we have an option to assign this to an identity pool. Ff you would like to do so you can choose 'Edit Network' up here. We’re going to go ahead and assign it to Identity Pool 'Test One'. We can define virtual MAC addresses and worldwide names oing this. We hit 'Next', and we can also define bandwidth limits if you are using NPAR or NIC partitioning.
We can also specify NIC teaming as well as tagged and untagged VLANs. Once you define that, you have a popup that says these settings were applied successfully. From here, we can deploy a template with our virtual identities. To deploy the template, we hit the 'Deploy' button, and we can choose to attach this to slots and select the slot. Before we select the slot, I do want to highlight that if you do not want to reboot your operating system, then you can choose to reseat your server to have the server template apply at a later time.
We will go ahead and hit Slot Four of our chassis here. For the purposes of this video, we’re going to choose not to reboot or initiate a virtual reseat, which is actually what this does for the purposes of time in this video. We also have additional options here. We can define if we want to boot from an ISO on the network, set an IP address for your iDRAC, or leave it alone. We can define granularly what attributes we want to apply from the template to this particular chassis slot.
This is the last section where you will be able to uncheck any RAID settings before you overwrite your RAID controller configuration. You hit 'Next', and we can reserve the identities from your identity pool that we associated. You can also double-check what the virtual MACs are that are assigned by expanding the ports. Lastly, we can schedule this to apply now or at a later date, preferably in a maintenance window because this is an interruptive process.
When we hit 'Finish', we do see a final warning stating that you can have data loss if you choose to have RAID settings applied. We have a popup that says template deployment is successful. It creates a job for the chassis, and we can view this job under the 'Monitor', 'Job' section. When you apply a template to a slot, the job is relatively quick; it took about a second to apply this. But bear in mind, you do have to perform a virtual reseat of the server to allow the server to assume the slot settings.
You can confirm that the chassis slot and the server template have been applied successfully by going to the 'Profile' section. Here, we see that the MX740c template that we just applied is associated with the slot in this particular chassis for this target device. I hope this video has been informative, and if you would like to watch the rest of our videos, I hope you enjoy them. Thank you for your time.
