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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 Virtual Assurance Management Database. Service profiles on a UCS manager can be imported into the Management Database, 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: