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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

You're reading from   Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions Deploy, manage, and automate your datacenter

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786464408
Length 482 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Prasenjit Sarkar Prasenjit Sarkar
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Anuj Modi Anuj Modi
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Preface 1. What's New with Cisco UCS FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Cisco UCS Hardware 3. Setting Up a Lab Using Cisco UCS Emulator 4. Configuring Cisco UCS Using UCS Manager 5. Configuring LAN Connectivity 6. Configuring SAN Connectivity 7. Creating Identity Resource Pools, Policies, and Templates 8. Creating and Managing Service Profiles 9. Managing UCS through Routine and Advanced Management 10. Virtual Networking in Cisco UCS 11. Configuring Backup, Restore, and High Availability 12. Cisco UCS Failure Scenarios Testing 13. Third-Party Application Integration 14. Automation and Orchestration of Cisco UCS

Creating and applying a service profile template


UCS service profile template creation is an excellent feature. Service profile templates can be created once and deployed to any number of servers with similar hardware specifications. The procedure for creating a service profile template is exactly the same as the procedure for creating a service profile template in the expert mode. Only the initial steps are different compared to the service profile in the expert mode and are shown in the following:

  1. Log in to UCS Manager.
  2. Click to expand the Servers tab in the navigation pane.
  3. Click on the Service Profiles Template tab and expand root.

 

  1. Right-click on root and on the pop-up menu that appears, click on Create Service Profile Template:

The next steps are exactly the same as we followed while creating the service profile in the expert mode. Once the template has been configured, it can be used to create any number of service profiles using minimal effort. Perform the following steps to configure...

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