Where to start, I would think the most logical step would be to configure the 1.>Management IP Pool.... Give the pool the starting IP address and then the size, subnet Mask, and finally the default gateway As you can see from the following output blades are being assigned to the to the Mgmt. IP address pool. These shouldn't change when you change the Service Profile from one blade to the next 2.>Next Create the UUID pools You'll notice none of the UUID's are assigned, this will be done during the creation of the Service Profile 3.> Create the MAC address Pool I don't show here but I named the Pool UCS1-ESXi pool. The Pool Size has to be a block size of 16 so placed that size value at 128 4.> Create the nWWN/WWWNN Create in the bits place of the 2,3,4 to change. The first bit can only be 2 or 5(reserved addresses) So you want to keep it at 2. Bit 2 can be changed depending on the needs for the organization the next 3 bytes are the OUI which you cannot change and the last 3 bytes can be changed according to your organization. I kept it the same as 01 for the UCS Domain 1 and 01 to signify it's a ESXi host. 5.> Create the pWWN/WWPN Here you have to create a pool for Fabric A and Fabric B 20:AI (FI A):00:25:B1:01 (UCS Domain 1):01 (ESXi Host):00 for a size of 128 Do the same for FI B and use the naming as follows 20:B1:00:25:B1:01:01:00 You should know see this 6.> Create BIOS Policy Disable Quiet Boot to see full startup screens, Don't check Reboot on BIOS Settings Change, this will reboot the servers associated with this BIOS policy. Click Finish and you'll see the LoudBoot Option in the root tree 7.> Boot Policy 8.>IPMI (Intelligent Platform Mgmt. Interface) 9.> LOCAL Disk Config Policies You'll notice that it has Protect Configuration Checked, this will preserve the RAID settings if disassociated with a service policy. Have to be cognizant of the Scrub Policy setting as well You have the following RAID Options 10.> Create Scrub Policy You can also setup just to scrub the BIOS or Everything. 11.> Schedules This is an example or a reoccurring schedule. In the above example if the tasks are not completed within 2 hours the server will cancel tasks and reboot. 12.> Maintenance Policy 13.> Power Caps (this is optional) You can assign Power Caps to particular servers, for instance you can have all our high priority servers in PowerCap 1 that will always be powered on if there are Power Supply failures, or PowerCap 10 for servers that maybe for Testing Purposes only. 14.> Server Pools (Optional) You can create Static Pools that you can manually assigned Blade Servers You can also create pools for Dynamic Allocation 15.> Server Pool Policy Qualifications (Optional) 16.> Server Pool Policy Here you would pick the Qualifications that where configured previously. |
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