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The MetalSoft Platform

  • Getting started
    • Architecture
      • Network topology
      • User interfaces
    • Deploying MetalSoft
      • Deployment Overview
      • Physical topology
      • Kubernetes cluster compute requirements
      • Deploying the MetalSoft Global Controller
      • Deploying the MetalSoft Site Controller
      • Using the CLI
      • Registering switches via Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
      • Registering servers via Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
      • Deploying MetalSoft to support legacy (PXE) deployments
      • Deploying MetalSoft using OVAs
      • Deploying MetalSoft without switches
      • Enabling end-users to create custom RAID configurations
      • Enabling traffic accounting
    • Troubleshooting and Maintenance
      • Troubleshooting deploys using the Operation’s Graph (AFC tree)
      • Troubleshooting server registrations using the Operation’s Graph (AFC tree)
      • Event log archiving via Kafka
      • Managing custom ISO’s
      • Post upgrade testing
      • Kubernetes cluster certificate management
    • Release notes
  • Configuration
    • Users and permissions
      • Authentication Overview
      • Managing users and permissions
      • Configuring LDAP authentication for Microsoft Active Directory
      • Configure SAML for OKTA
      • Managing Resource Pools
      • Managing accounts
    • Data centers
      • Adding a new datacenter
    • Networking
      • Networking overview
      • Managing switches
      • Switch replace
      • Managing switch pairs
      • IP address Management (IPAM)
      • Managing network profiles
      • Adding a new external connection
      • Adding Cisco ACI APIC Switches in a new datacenter
      • Enabling Secondary IPs and/or VLANs on the WAN interface
      • EVPN VXLAN network provisioner
    • Servers
      • Servers overview
        • Server lifecycle
        • Managing hardware failures and changes
        • Server types
        • Adding a new server
        • Adding a new managed server
        • Re-registering a server
        • Adding a new un-managed server
        • Managing server firmware
        • Managing firmware catalogs
        • Managing Firmware baselines
      • Server lifecycle
      • Managing hardware failures and changes
      • Server types
      • Adding a new server
      • Adding a new managed server
      • Managing BIOS settings
      • Re-registering a server
      • Adding a new un-managed server
      • Managing server firmware
      • Managing firmware catalogs
      • Managing Firmware baselines
    • Storage
      • Adding a new storage pool
      • Storage Appliances Prerequisites
      • Managing storage pools
    • Operating System Templates
      • Managing Operating System templates
      • Template language and variables
      • Advanced OS deployment configurations
      • Managing OS templates for legacy deployment process (PXE)
      • OS templates simple asset template variables glossary (DEPRECATED)
      • JSON Schema
      • How to add boot and install drivers to a repository Windows ISO
    • Resource Pools
      • Managing resource pools
    • Monitoring
      • Syslog forwarding and alerting
    • Virtualization
      • Managing VM Pools
      • Managing VMs
  • ELI
    • ELI - AI assisted diagnosis overview
  • Operation
    • Getting started
    • Concepts
    • Managing infrastructures
    • Managing instance arrays
    • Managing networks
    • Managing drive arrays
    • Deploying Kubernetes on MetalSoft
    • Using the CLI
    • Connecting to linux servers through SSH
    • Connecting to Windows servers through RDP
    • Delegating access to an infrastructure
    • Retrieving the utilization report
    • Configuring a custom RAID profile
    • Enabling two factor authentication (2FA) in Metalcloud
    • Manually managing iSCSI connections
    • Setting delegation for reseller scenarios
    • Forcing specific servers at deploy
  • Developer resources
    • Developer Getting Started
    • Connecting to the API
    • Callbacks and post-install operations
    • Using the Terraform provider
    • Building a CI/CD pipeline
    • Integrating with a customer portal
    • Embedding the remote console
    • Integrating with a Billing System
    • Workflows
      • Managing workflows
      • Managing workflow tasks
      • Managing variables and secrets
      • Using infrastructures with workflows
      • Sample workflow - Automatically adding a host to an external VMWare VCenter
      • Adding workflows to every deploy
    • MetalSoft Extensions

Fabric Manager

  • Fabric Manager
    • Fabric Manager Overview
    • Tutorials
      • Tutorial: Switch only operation with Dell Enterprise SONiC in GNS3
      • Tutorial - Dell Sonic Enterprise and Dell servers in a spine-leaf configuration
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Resources for getting started with MetalSoft.

  • Architecture
  • Deploying MetalSoft
  • Troubleshooting and Maintenance
  • Release notes
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