Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 local boot installation and configuration
In this recipe, we will learn how to install and configure Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 local boot.
Getting ready
Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2204XP installed, each UCS IOM is connected to a Cisco UCS 6248UP. There is a UCS B200 M4 with one VIC 1340 installed into this chassis and configure four ports on each Cisco UCS 6248UP as an Ethernet uplink port and an 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 as different roles. For chassis, the uplink is connected by Twinax copper (SFP-H10GB-CU1M); for SAN uplink, it is connected by an 8 GB SFP (DS-SFP-FC8G-SW); for 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 a local drive with mirror mode (RAID 1). The details are listed in the following service profile:
