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Prerequisites for Supporting Reservations of Physical Systems

Before you access the Reservation Manager for the first time, use the Add Resource function in CA Server Automation to perform a one-time image installation of each system that will be added to the Reservation Manager inventory. After all the systems are registered, use CA Server Automation to create a service and add the systems to the new service.

Note: The Add Resource function configures CA Server Automation with information that the Reservation Manager needs to reimage these systems successfully later.

We recommend that you install a CA Configuration Automation agent on all servers in the inventory to collect the system configuration information that the Reservation Manager requires. Specifically, the Reservation Manager requires information about the number of CPUs, the amount of memory, and the amount of disk space for each system.