About migrating server profiles

Existing server profiles can be assigned to new hardware when hardware is upgraded or added to your environment. For example, when you upgrade server hardware, the server hardware type can change and, as a result, an assigned server profile might no longer match the new hardware configuration. In this case, you can edit the existing server profile to update the server hardware type and not have to recreate a potentially complex server profile from scratch.

The ability to edit existing server profiles and change the server hardware type and enclosure group allows you to perform tasks such as:

  • Add or remove a mezzanine card to or from a server

  • Move server hardware from one enclosure to another enclosure with a different configuration

  • Move server profiles to servers with different adapters, different generations of hardware, and different hardware models

  • Move workloads to different servers or enclosure configurations

NOTE:

If you move a server profile from a server hardware type and enclosure group that supports iSCSI to one that does not, you must delete the existing iSCSI connections and add Ethernet connections to replace them. If the server profile has configured SAN storage, you must also add new connections to the storage paths in the SAN storage attachments.

In an existing server profile, click the Change link adjacent to the Server hardware type or Enclosure group settings to change these values.

If you change the server hardware type or enclosure group, other settings within a server profile can be affected. For most of the following attributes, settings remain unchanged so long as the selected server hardware type or enclosure group support the existing settings. If the settings do not support the selected server hardware type or enclosure group, the settings are removed. Exceptions are noted as follows.

Affinity

Unchanged if supported, or removed (if the new configuration is a rack server).

Firmware

Unchanged if supported, or removed.

OS Deployment

Unchanged if supported, or removed.

Connections

Most settings are unchanged if supported, though ports will be set to Auto. Unsupported settings are removed.

Local storage

Unchanged if supported, or removed.

SAN storage

Settings remain unchanged if supported, or storage paths are removed, or all SAN configurations are removed (if the new configuration is a rack server).

Boot settings

Settings are always adjusted to support the new configuration.

BIOS

Unchanged if supported, or removed if the profile is migrated to a different server model.

iLO

Unchanged if the new hardware supports iLO setting.