You can onboard one or more compute resources in Automation Suite.
After onboarding resources, you can apply a hardware profile on one or more resources. Hardware profiles are configuration templates that are used to apply the following configurations on resources:
- BIOS, BMC, OS Drivers, and RAID.
- Deploy operating systems and Firmware.
- SCP profile and OS Network settings.
- Power on or power off resources.
- Reinitialize drives.
Before applying a hardware profile, complete the following applicable prerequisites:
Function | Description |
Create Firmware media | Create a Firmware media to upload Firmware files. Required if you want to deploy Firmware, |
Create operating system media | Create an operating system media to upload operating system files. Required if you want to deploy an operating system. |
Create OS Driver media | Create an OS Driver media to upload an OS Driver file. Required if you want to install an OS Driver. Note: You can add an OS Driver media to a hardware profile only after adding an operating system. |
Create SCP media | Create SCP media to upload an SCP.xml file. Required if you want to add SCP automated configuration. |
Create a hardware profile | Create a hardware profile. |
After completing the prerequisites that you require, you can apply the hardware profile on one or more resources:
Function | Description |
Apply a hardware profile on a resource | Apply a hardware profile. |
After onboarding a resource, you can also perform the following actions on individual resources:
Function | Description |
Power on a resource | Power on a resource. |
Reinitialize a compute resource | Reinitialize a resource. |
Factory reset | Factory reset. |
Add tags to a single resource | Add tags to a single resource. |
Update Firmware and BIOS on a compute resource | Upgrade Firmware. |
Remove a hardware profile from a resource | Remove hardware profile. |
Power off a resource | Power off a resource. |
Edit resource name and location | Edit resource name and location. |
Delete a resource | Delete a resource. |