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# About server profile templates

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.

## About creating a server profile template

You can create one or more templates to store the configurations for all the settings of a server profile. When you create a server profile template, you can specify the server hardware type and the enclosure group. You cannot change the server hardware type and the enclosure group after creating the template. All profiles generated from the same template will have the same server hardware type and enclosure group.

The connections are always mapped to ports; that is, a saved server profile template will never have connections with `Port=Auto`. You cannot configure connections with `Port=None`.

You cannot add an existing private volume.

## About editing a server profile template

Edit a server profile template to change the settings associated with that template. You can edit a server profile template any time after it has been created. You can also edit a server profile template that has an `Error` condition to make corrections.

When you edit a server profile template, the appliance analyzes the changes and updates the template configuration. Then, all the server profiles created from the template are evaluated for compliance and a notification is given indicating the number of profiles that will be affected by the change. The profiles are marked as non-compliant. You can use Update from template option in Server Profiles to accept all the changes from the template.

| NOTE: Server hardware must be powered off to update from template, unless the changes that are made can be made online such as networks and network bandwidth.

When you edit a server profile template, consider the following:

- Server profile template names must be unique.

- You cannot switch between virtual and physical identifiers for the following:

  - Serial number/UUID

  - MAC address

  - WWN

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