Activating the Farm Manually

If you prefer, you may activate farms manually by using the command-line interface, as opposed to using the Administration screen in the Control Center. To do so, you first verify that adequate resources are available in the target I-Fabric to activate the farm. Use the command device -LF to list free devices. Use the command device -lr <deviceID> to see with which role a device has been configured.

The N1 Provisioning Server software identifies the hardware resources and software components that are required for the instantiation of a farm. The system first allocates all hardware resources from the resource pool. For each device, the system configures the physical device as specified in the farm design. The system also initiates the copying of the required images and configures servers according to the Control Center configuration.

The resource pool is a single pool of devices. The farms that you create use available devices in this pool.