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Reserve a Physical System

The Reserve a system link on the Reservation Manager home page opens a wizard that lets you reserve a physical system from an allocated resource pool for use at a specific date. You define the system requirements, such as operating system, software, and hardware. Reservation Manager verifies that sufficient resources exist and schedules the availability and provisioning of the resource.

You can perform the following actions:

• Specify operating system.
• (Optional) Choose any software that you want to install on the system.
• Specify the number of physical systems to reserve and the minimum hardware requirements on the Specify Requirements page. Following is additional information about this page:

  Chargeback

  This page may also show an hourly rate per system if your administrator implemented the chargeback feature. If you change anything in the reservation before submitting it, you can recalculate the total to see the new hourly rate.

• Choose to reserve now for several days, or enter start and end dates and times.

  Both options may also let you reserve a system with no expiration date and time. The administrator controls whether unlimited end times are enabled, so this feature may not be available at all sites.

  Times start and end on the hour, and the end time must be at least one hour after the start time. If you specify an end time that exceeds the number of days for which you can reserve a system, Reservation Manager rejects your request.

• (Optional) Specify the following additional information:

  Administrator Password

  Lets you set the password for the Windows administrator or Linux root accounts.

  Note: This field does not appear by default. The site administrator controls whether users can set the administrator or root password.

  Confirm Password

  Displays the field if the administrator password is present. Enter the same password to verify it.

  Project ID

  (Optional) Defines the ID that associates the request with a specific project. This field is useful for evaluating requests and for allocating or charging costs to a specific project.

  The Reservation Manager administrator can configure this field so that it is required. In this case, the Reservation Manager displays a corresponding note in the information bar. You can submit your reservation request only after you enter a project ID. The Reservation Manager does not validate the entered value.

  Notes

  (Optional) Defines additional information you want to provide about the request.

  Send Notifications to

  (Optional) Defines the email address to which Reservation Manager sends notifications regarding this request. You can override any default value with a different address. Separate multiple email addresses with a semicolon. Reservation Manager sends email notifications when a reserved system is available for use and when the expiration of the reservation period is approaching.

  Save as Template

  (Optional) Defines a name for this request so that you can use it as a template for future requests.

  Template Description

  (Optional) Defines a description for the template.