Bare Metal Provisioning to a Cisco UCS Blade

For bare metal provisioning to a Cisco UCS blade, you can use any of the following methods in the CA Server Automation user interface:

You can also use the dpmucs command-line provisioning method.

Consider the following information to decide which method to use:

Cisco UCS blade provisioning can take significant time due to the blade power cycle and the time required to associate the blade with a specific service profile.
For ITCM deployment, you must retrieve the MAC address from the service profile to be used for PXE boot. After the provisioning job is submitted to CA ITCM, you must run blade powercycle from the CA Server Automation user interface.
Note: Cisco UCS provisioning does not require Wake-On-LAN because it uses the Cisco UCS Manager for power control.