# Creating an HPE BMaaS Cloud

## About this task

Creating an HPE BMaaS Cloud integrates physical infrastructure into the Morpheus management plane, establishing a logical boundary for bare-metal resources to enable group-based policies and proxy configurations. This setup allows for onboarding HPE ProLiant servers for automated provisioning and lifecycle management.

To create an **HPE BMaaS Cloud** in Morpheus for HPE ProLiant bare-metal operations, follow this procedure:

## Procedure

1. Navigate to Infrastructure > Clouds in the Morpheus interface.
2. Click the + Add button.
3. Locate and select the HPE BMaaS Cloud type as HPE Bare Metal (BMaaS), and then click Next.  
   ![Create Cloud](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007510en_us/GUID-C875F0A7-EDDE-42E3-B87B-DE90F18B9A51-high.png)
4. Enter the name, code, Labels, Location, and complete any additional required details for the cloud.   
   ![Cloud Configure](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007510en_us/GUID-0C50D8A2-3CA6-416E-AA73-0DA3FA82167B-high.png)
5. **Optional:**  In Provisioning Command, select a Proxy for provisioned bare metal instances if required, then click Next.  
   ![Provisioning Command](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007510en_us/GUID-172BEA46-96D8-4D0D-83D8-B0D6428A0ED5-high.png)
6. For the group, you may either select Use Existing or Create New: 

   - To use an existing group, choose Use Existing and select the desired group from the drop-down list.   
     ![Existing Group](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007510en_us/GUID-6EC50EB8-DE0B-43B4-A168-B43E3A87CAB5-high.png)
   - To create a new group, select Create New and follow the on-screen prompts.   
     ![Create New](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007510en_us/GUID-213FFFF2-8183-4E33-A2A3-9437A433373E-high.png)
7. Click Next to review your cloud configuration details, then click Complete to finalize cloud creation.

   NOTE

   By default, the Network Mode is set to Unmanaged for the created Bare metal cloud. If you need to use ArubaCX integration, modify the Bare metal cloud and set the Network Mode to the ArubaCX-Integration.

## Results

After completion, the newly created group appears in the list of groups.   
![Groups](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007510en_us/GUID-3917DB5B-D58F-4FFF-A06C-40BD5401CFE7-high.png)

**Subtopics**  

- **[Default Unmanaged Network Support](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007510en_us/render?page=GUID-2F776F04-B8E7-428D-823B-AB121DFE48AB.html)**
