Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Version 3.0 User's Guide

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 identity which is defined by the Media Access Control (MAC) address. MAC addresses are required for Ethernet (LAN) communications.
• Fibre Channel (FC) identity which is 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.
• iSCSI identity which is defined by the iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN). IQN identities are required to support boot-from-SAN by using the iSCSI protocol.

OpenManage Enterprise uses the identity pools to automatically assign virtual identities to the device template that is used for deploying a server.