Working with Bare Metal Profiles

After a profile is created, it is displayed in the Bare Metal Profiles table at the bottom of the dashboard. If you select an image, all bare metal profiles that are created from that image are displayed.

You can edit the profile also by using the icon. After the changes are saved, an action is automatically generated to update the profile on any servers that have that profile. If there are any servers with the profile, but that are out of sync with the profile available in the console, a warning is shown and you can use this icon to resynchronize.

You can send the profile to the server by clicking Send to Server.

This generates an action for any valid bare metal servers.

Note:

Bare metal servers might be invalid because they are an old version or do not have encryption enabled.

It is recommended that images are pre-cached to bare metal servers where profiles are created. This way large files are immediately available when first attempting to deploy a profile.

From the Bare Metal Profile table in the Image Library, you can see on which servers the profile exists by clicking the Servers with Profile link.

You can delete a profile on the server by selecting it and then clicking Delete; the profile is removed also from all servers. An image cannot be deleted if there are profiles that are created from it.