Chapter 6. Deploying Servers in the UCS
In this chapter we discuss the requirements, methods, and tasks used in deploying servers and service profiles on the UCS system.
Service Profile Concepts
A service profile is a logical abstraction of a “bare metal” physical server. The service profile describes the following characteristics about the server you intend to deploy:
• Identity (for example, VLANs, VSANs)
• Behavior (for example, adapter failover, firmware version)
• Connectivity (for example vNICs, vHBAs)
Note that these characteristics apply only to the physical server and its network connectivity, not to the operating system. An example of this would be the server’s hostname that is set and handled by the server operating system (not UCSM). ...
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