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How to Create or Update a Service Profile

CA Server Automation provides a wizard that administrators can use to create service profiles, and you can update service profiles with predefined policy options. System, network, and storage administrators can collaborate to create service profiles with unique identity characteristics, and required connectivity characteristics.

The service profile wizard provides a subset of the Cisco UCS Manager interface to take advantage of knowledge and experience in the Cisco environment.

Example: Create a Service Profile

Using the CA Server Automation user interface, select the create-service-profile option and specify the server profile name to create and choose whether the server profile is to be:

• Hardware-based
• Simple server profile with default networking and storage connectivity
• Based on an existing service profile template
• Custom service profile which must be created explicitly

Based on the option selected, the wizard leads you through an interview process to obtain the required identity and connectivity information. You can take the defaults or specify identity (UUID), network (MAC/VLAN), storage (WWN/vHBA), and boot policy information explicitly.