Server Profile Templates

A server profile template serves as a structural reference when creating a server profile. All of the configuration constructs of a server profile are present in the server profile template.

Server profile templates help to monitor, flag, and update server profiles in HPE OneView. This template type defines the centralized source for the configuration of firmware, connections, local storage, SAN storage, boot, BIOS, profile affinity, and hides unused FlexNICs.

Server profile templates provide a mechanism to store configurations for a server profile. Typically, you capture best-practice configurations in a server profile template, and then create and deploy server profiles.

A server profile continues to maintain an association to its server profile template after being created from a server profile template. Any drift in configuration consistency between the server profile template and server profiles is monitored and made visible on both the server profile template and the associated server profiles.