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Bare Metal Provisioning to a Cisco UCS Blade

You can use either the Rapid Server Imaging dpmrsi CLI or the Cisco UCS Provisioning dpmucs CLI for bare metal provisioning to a Cisco UCS blade. Consider the following information when deciding which method to use.

• Significant delays can occur during Cisco UCS blade provisioning, due to the blade power cycle and the time required to associate the blade with a specific service profile.
• For physical systems, RSI bare metal provisioning requires that both the network and the target system are configured for Wake-On-LAN to avoid manual intervention to boot the target system during deployment. Unless network routers are configured across subnets to allow directed broadcasts, Wake-On-LAN only works for systems that are in the same subnet as the CA Server Automation instance.
• Cisco UCS provisioning does not require Wake-On-LAN because it uses the Cisco UCS Manager for power control.