3.For Logical interconnect group, select EsxFlexFabricLIG.4.Click Create.A.5.6 Adding the enclosure

Adding an enclosure brings the rack, the enclosure, and the enclosure's contents—server hardware and interconnects—under managed control. You add an enclosure by providing its IP address or host name, along with the enclosure's Onboard Administrator credentials. In this procedure, you will also establish a firmware baseline for the enclosure.

NOTE: The name associated with the enclosure is the enclosure name, which is set in the Onboard Administrator, and is not the name of the Onboard Administrator.

In this procedure you will add one enclosure:

Attribute

Description

 

 

 

 

Enclosure 1 primary Onboard Administrator IP

172.18.1.11

 

address

 

 

 

 

 

Enclosure 1 secondary Onboard Administrator IP

172.18.1.12

 

address

 

 

 

 

 

Onboard Administrator credentials (same for both

User name

OAAdmin

enclosures)

Password

S&leP@ssw0rd

 

 

 

 

1.From the main menu, select Enclosures and click Add enclosure. The Add Enclosure dialog box opens.

2.Enter the following information:

•For OA IP address or host name, enter the primary Onboard Administrator IP address for Enclosure 1.

•For User name and Password, enter the Onboard Administrator credentials in the preceding table. These credentials establish a trust relationship between the appliance and the Onboard Administrator.

•For Enclosure group, select EsxFlexFabricGroup.

•For Licensing, select OneView to apply both a OneView and a permanent iLO Advanced license to the servers in the enclosure. The appliance applies this licensing policy only to enclosures and servers that do not have factory-embedded licenses.

•For Firmware baseline, select the firmware bundle that you added in “Downloading the latest firmware bundle and adding it to the appliance” (page 239).

When you add an enclosure, the appliance:

•Detects the server blades installed in the enclosure and adds them to the appliance. For each unique server blade hardware configuration, the appliance automatically adds a server hardware type.

•Detects and adds the interconnect modules installed in the enclosure. Because you selected an existing enclosure group, the appliance does the following:

1.Compares the interconnect hardware configuration to the interconnect configuration specified by the logical interconnect group associated with the enclosure group.

2.Notifies you if the two configurations do not match.A.5.7 Viewing the server hardware types

After you add the enclosure, you can view the server hardware and server hardware types that the appliance added automatically.

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