Overview: Hypervisor Profiles
Hypervisor Profiles help you define a virtualization software configuration by:
- Creating a new hypervisor profile from a reference ISO image and vCenter settings
- Displaying or editing a current hypervisor profile
- Duplicating an existing model hypervisor profile to customize the location of a reference ISO file or settings
- Renaming a hardware profile
- Deleting a hypervisor profile
Tasks
You can Create a New hypervisor profile and add it to the display list.
To view or edit an existing hypervisor profile:
- Select a profile with the mouse.
- Click Edit/View. The Hypervisor Profile: profile name pop-up window displays.
- Select the profile section you want to display or change:
- Profile Name and Description: rename profile or change the description.
- Reference ISO: change the ISO image name, user access, or type
- vCenter Settings: Instance, Destination, Host Profile, and user access.
- Click Save to apply changes, click Cancel to eliminate changes.
- Repeat last two steps for each part of the hypervisor profile.
- Click X (upper-right corner) to close the Hypervisor Profile: profile name pop-up.
- Select a profile with the mouse.
- Click Duplicate. The Duplicate pop-up displays.
- Enter a unique hypervisor profile name.
- Click Apply to save the duplicate profile, click Cancel abandon the operation.
- Select a profile with the mouse.
- Click Rename. The Rename Profile pop-up displays.
- Enter a unique hypervisor profile name.
- Click Apply to use the new name, click Cancel retain the old name.
- Select a profile with the mouse.
- Click Delete.
- When the cautionary message displays, click Delete to remove the profile or click Cancel to retain it.
Caution: Deleting a hypervisor profile committed to scheduled deployment jobs, can cause the deployment jobs to fail.
To display updated hypervisor profiles:
- Click Refresh.
Related Topics
View or download Dell virtualization documentation at: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/eslvmwre/
View or download Dell hardware documentation for PowerEdge Servers
View or download Dell hardware documentation for PowerEdge Servers