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Service Profiles

A service profile contains configuration information about Cisco UCS hardware, including interfaces, fabric connectivity, and network and server identity. You can create a service profile for a specific UCS manager or centrally in the CA Server Automation Management DB. Service profiles on a UCS manager can be imported into the Management DB, from which they can be exported to other UCS managers.

Service profiles allow supporting Cisco UCS hardware to be abstracted from the operating system. By addition or removal of a service profile, services can be brought online or taken offline. By reassignment of a service profile from one blade to another, a set of services (operating system and applications) can be moved to different servers.

Service profile information can include:

• Blade servers by device UUID or virtual UUID pool
• Storage in any configuration of local storage, RAID, or SAN (HBA, WWNN, and WWNN pools)
• Networking (MAC, vNIC 0, vNIC 1, and MAC pools)
• Server boot order or other policies
• Server assignment type (assign later, provision a slot in advance, provision an existing server, select server from pool)