System Templates

System templates contain configuration details for resources such as system properties, shared processor pools, reserved storage pool, shared memory pool, Host Ethernet Adapters, and SR-IOV adapters. Many of the system settings that you previously configured by using separate tasks are available in the Deploy System from Template wizard. For example, you can configure the Virtual I/O Servers, virtual network bridges, and virtual storage settings when you use the wizard to deploy a system from a system template. You can use this feature on Hardware Management Console (HMC).

The template library includes quick-start system templates, which contain configuration settings based on common usage scenarios. Quick-start system templates are available for your immediate use.

You can also create user-defined system templates that contain configuration settings that are specific to your environment. You can create a user-defined template by copying a quick-start template and changing it to fit your needs. Or, you can capture the configuration of an existing system and save the details in a template. Then, you can deploy that template to other systems that require the same configuration.