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Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Version 3.5 User's Guide

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Identity pools

An identity pool is a collection of one or more virtual identity types that are required for network communication. An identity pool can contain a combination of any of the following virtual identity types:
  • Ethernet identities

    The Identities which are defined by the Media Access Control (MAC) address. MAC addresses are required for Ethernet (LAN) communications.

  • iSCSI identities

    The Identities which are defined by the iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN). IQN identities are required to support boot-from-SAN by using the iSCSI protocol.

  • Fibre Channel (FC) identities

    The Identities which are defined by the World Wide Node Name (WWNN) and World Wide Port Name (WWPN). A WWNN identity is assigned to a node (device) in an FC fabric and may be shared by some or all ports of a device. A WWPN identity is assigned to each port in an FC fabric and is unique to each port. WWNN and WWPN identities are required to support boot-from-SAN and for data access using FC and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols.

  • Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) identities

    Identities that provide a unique virtual identity for FCoE operations. These identities are defined by both MAC address and the FC addresses (that is WWNN and WWPN). WWNN and WWPN identities are required to support boot-from-SAN and for data access using FC and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols.

OpenManage Enterprise uses the identity pools to automatically assign virtual identities to the device deployment template that is used for deploying a server.
NOTE
  • For the identities that belong to an existing identity pool but were deployed outside of OpenManage Enterprise, a new Configuration Inventory job must be initiated to identify and designate them as 'assigned' in the appliance.
  • The virtual identities which are already assigned, will not be used for a new deployment unless these identities are cleared.

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