Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

Summary

In this chapter, we first acquired an understanding of the service profile and looked into various service profile creations options. We learned that expert mode service profile creation provides advanced configuration features, and also learned that creating service profile templates facilitate server provisioning. Then we looked into various policies that can be configured and later on, assigned to Blade Servers. We looked at policies such as BIOS, Adapter, Scrub, and QoS. Finally, we did a walkthrough of service profile creation using the expert mode, and utilized different UCS policies and settings to create a service profile that can be associated to a physical Blade Server, to provide the server with all configurations necessary ...