Hardware Profiles help you define a server's hardware configuration by:

• Creating a new hardware profile from a reference server (boot order, BIOS settings, iDRAC settings, and RAID configuration)
• Displaying a list of current hardware profiles
• Duplicating an existing model hardware profile to customize hardware elements
• Deleting a hardware profile
• Renaming a hardware profile

You can Create a New hardware profile and add to the list.

 

Use Edit/View to:

• Customize a selected set of hardware settings from a clone reference server.
• Create a custom hardware profile.

To view or edit an existing hardware profile:

1. Select a profile with the mouse.
2. Click Edit/View. The Hardware Profile: profile name pop-up displays.
3. Select the profile section you want to display or change using the left pane names.
   Use the (+) Expand and (-) Collapse controls to display individual pane sections that you can make changes independently of other sections.
   Click Edit to change settings:
• Profile Name and Description: rename profile or change the description.
• Reference Server: select a different server to obtain hardware settings
• Boot Order: Boot device and Hard Drive sequence.
• BIOS Settings - memory. processors, SATA, integrated devices, serial communications. embedded server management, power management, system security, and miscellaneous settings
• iDRAC settings - network, user list, and user configuration (IPMI/iDRAC privileges)
• RAID configuration - select controller (physical disks, global hotspares, virtual disks), select specific virtual disk (RAID level, size, protocol, media format, physical disks, dedicated hotspares)
• Firmware Baseline: change firmware repository and bundle.
4. Click Save to apply changes, click Cancel to eliminate changes.
5. Repeat last two steps for each part of the hardware profile.
6. Click X (upper-right corner) to close the Hardware Profile: profile name pop-up.

To duplicate a hardware profile:

1. Select a profile with the mouse.
2. Click Duplicate. The Duplicate pop-up displays.
3. Enter a unique hardware profile name.
4. Click Apply to clone the profile, click Cancel to do nothing.

To rename a hardware profile:

1. Select a profile with the mouse.
2. Click Rename. The Rename Profile pop-up displays.
3. Enter a unique hardware profile name.
4. Click Apply to use the new name, click Cancel retain the old name.

To delete a hardware profile:

1. Select a profile with the mouse.
2. Click Delete.
3. When the caution message displays, click Delete to remove the profile or click Cancel to retain it.

To display updated hardware profile information:

1. Click Refresh.

• Create New Hardware Profile

View or download Dell virtualization documentation at: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/eslvmwre/
View or download Dell hardware documentation for PowerEdge™ Servers