Understanding server pools

Server pools are used to organize servers based on specific criteria such as CPU family, amount of RAM, type of mezzanine card, power, and others. Each server is associated with a unique service profile to receive all the settings. A server pool can be associated with a service profile. UCSM automatically selects an available server in the server pool and associates it with a service profile.

Server pools can be manually populated or they can be autopopulated using server pool policies. Server pools make the servers available for association with service profiles. It is possible to have a server in more than one server pool at the same time.

In order to create and manually populate the server pool, carry out the following ...

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