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Managing server blades
Deployment Solution lets you manage high-density server blades with Rack/Enclosure/
Bay (R/E/B) hardware and properties. From the Deployment Console, you can deploy
and manage these space-efficient server blades using the physical view to assign jobs
to the Rack, Enclosure, or Bay level of the server cluster, or you can manage each server
blade directly from the logical view.
See Bay on page 121 for properties and rules to deploy Rack/Enclosure/Bay servers.
Using Deployment Solution, you can employ rip and replace technology that lets you
insert a new server blade and automatically configure and deploy it exactly like the
previously installed server blade, letting you replace any server that is down and get it
back on line quickly. By default, the replay option is checked when you create a new job.
This option replays the job during any rip and replace actions.
Symantec provides fail-safe features to ensure that no server is mistakenly overwritten
and that all disk images, software, data, and patches are applied to the new server from
the history of jobs assigned to the previous server blade.
Managing new server blades
Deployment Solution lets you automatically deploy, configure and provision new server
blades using a variety of features, including Sample Jobs and Server Deployment Rules.
See Sample jobs on page 196 and Server deployment rules on page 121.
New server blades in newly identified bays
When new blades are identified in a Bay that has not been used previously (if it has
been used previously, the Bay object is identified in the physical view), both the Initial
Deployment and Virtual Bays features can be set up to automatically run configuration
tasks and deployment jobs.
To Create Virtual Bays: Set up Virtual Rack/Enclosure/Bays for Hewlett-Packard Rapid
Deployment Pack installations of Deployment Solution.
Initial Deployment setup: Clear the Servers check box in the Advanced dialog.
If both new computer features are set up and a new server blade is installed in a Bay not
previously identified by the Deployment Server, the Create Virtual Bay feature executes
and Initial Deployment does not execute.
New server blades in identified bays
If a new HP server blade is installed in an identified Bay (one that already has a server
blade installed and is visible from the Deployment Console), both Sample Jobs in
Deployment Solution and Server Deployment Rules can be set up. However, when both
are set up, the Server Deployment Rules execute and Initial Deployment does not
execute.
Virtual bays
Hewlett-Packard blade servers now have a Virtual Bay feature that lets you pre-assign
deployment jobs to the Rack, the Enclosure, or to a specific blade server in the Bay. Any
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