After you pre-configure a placeholder chassis by deploying
a server pattern to that placeholder chassis, and then discover and
manage the actual chassis, you can deploy the placeholder chassis
to configure the actual compute nodes.
Procedure
Complete the following steps to deploy a placeholder chassis.
- From the Lenovo XClarity Administrator menu bar, click . The Server Configuration Patterns page is
displayed.
- Click the Placeholder Chassis tab.
- Select the vertical tab for the placeholder chassis that
you want to deploy.
- Click the Deploy placeholder chassis icon () to display the Deploy Placeholder Chassis dialog.
- Choose when to activate the configurations:
Note: The network settings on the relative switch internal
ports are pushed to the switch immediately after the deployment, regardless
of activation configuration.
Full. Immediately powers on
or restarts the server to activate server, baseboard management controller,
and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) configurations.
Partial. (default) Immediately
activates management-controller configurations, but defers the activation
of server and UEFI configurations until the next server restart. The
server must be manually powered on or restarted before the profile
is fully activated.
Note: When deploying server patterns that included
only IMM settings (including system information, management interface,
and extended BMC category patterns), the server does not need to be
restarted.
- Click Activate.