Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 local boot installation and configuration
In this recipe, we will learn how to install and configure Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 local boot.
Getting ready
Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2208XP installed; each UCS IOM is connected to a Cisco UCS 6248UP. There is a UCS B200 M3 with a VIC 1240 installed into the chassis. Configure four ports on each Cisco UCS 6248UP as an Ethernet uplink port and FC uplink port, which is connected to SAN Switches and LAN Switches by Fibre Channel cables. Due to each port being a unified port, you can configure it for different roles. For a chassis uplink, it is connected by Twinax copper (SFP-H10GB-CU1M); for a SAN uplink, it is connected by an 8 GB SFP (DS-SFP-FC8G-SW); for an Ethernet uplink, it is connected by a 10 GB SFP (SFP-10G-SR). Prepare a UCS service profile, it includes two vNICs, two vHBAs, and local drive with mirror mode (RAID 1). The details are listed in the following service profile:
