Before joining a member to a Grid, you can first enable provisional licenses and make necessary configurations on the offline member, which allows DNS and DHCP data to be associated with the member prior to its deployment. Note that pre-provisioned members are treated as offline members.
There are a few guidelines to consider before you pre-provision a member. For more information about the guidelines, see Guidelines for Pre-Provisioning Offline Grid Members.
When you add a new member to the Grid, the Pre-Provisioning tab is displayed in the Grid Member Properties editor. You can pre-provision the member by defining its hardware model and enable certain provisional licenses through the Pre-Provisioning tab. This tab is not displayed after the member successfully joins the Grid. Before you can make supported configurations on the pre-provisioned member, you must enable provisional licenses. For more information about these licenses and the list of supported provisional licenses, see About Provisional Licenses.
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The pre-provisioning feature is disabled by default. You must select a supported hardware model for the Grid member to enable this feature. A member that has pre-provisioning configured does not need a permanent license to join the Grid.
Note that to join pre-provisioned vNIOS members to the Grid, you must include the Grid and vNIOS provisional licenses.
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