Service Profiles and Templates

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• Service Profile Templates, page 5
• Viewing Service Profile Configuration Status, page 7

Service Profiles
Service profiles in Cisco UCS Central define servers and their storage and networking characteristics.

Note You cannot create service profiles directly in Cisco UCS Central. You must create a service profile template
first.

Creating a Service Profile from a Template

Step 1 In the Task bar, type Create Service Profile from Template and press Enter.
This launches the Create Service Profile from Template dialog box.

Step 2 In Basic, select the service profile template that you want to use from the Service Profile Template to Instantiate, and
select the Organization where you want to create the service profile.
Step 3 Determine the type of Service Profile Naming Convention that you want to use. This can be one of the following:
• Simple—Enter the number of service profiles that you want to create, and the naming prefix for each service profile.
The service profiles are created using the format prefixX. For example, three service profiles would be called
prefix1, prefix2, and prefix3.
• Advanced—Enter the prefix, suffix, number of service profiles, the first number, and the number of digits.
The service profiles are created using the format prefixXXsuffix. For example, three service profiles starting at
400 and using 4 digits would be called prefix0400suffix, prefix0401suffix, and prefix0402suffix.

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• Manual Entry—Enter the service profile names as comma separated values. A service profile will be created for
each value entered.

Note You can create up to 99 service profiles at one time from a single template.

Step 4 In Servers, select an existing server pool or server pool qualification policy.
Note If the service profiles are created from an updating template, then after the service profile instances are created,
making changes to the server pool or service pool qualification policy in the template will update the values
that you selected here. This may potentially change the associated server to a different server if the server is
rebooted.
Step 5 Click Create.

Binding a Service Profile to a Template

Step 1 From the Service Profile page, click the Settings icon.
Step 2 Click Bind To Template.
This launches the Bind Service Profile dialog box.

Step 3 In Service Profile Template to Instantiate, select the service profile template from the available list.
Step 4 Click Bind.

Manually Assigning a Server to a Service Profile

To watch a video manually assigning a server, see Video: Assigning a Server to a Global Service Profile
Manually.

Step 1 From the Service Profile page, click the Settings icon.
Step 2 Click Assign Server Manually.
This launches the Assign Server Manually dialog box.

Step 3 Choose whether to enable Compatibility Check On Migration Using Manual Assignment.
Step 4 Select the server that you want to assign to the service profile.
Step 5 Click Assign Server Manually.

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Configuring Interface Placement on a Service Profile or Service Profile Template

Configuring Interface Placement on a Service Profile or Service Profile

Template

Step 1 From the Service Profile or Service Profile Template page, click the Settings icon.
Step 2 Click Configure Interface Placement.
This launches the Configure Host Interface Placement dialog box.

Step 3 In Placement, choose whether to enable Manual Interface Placement.

If you select Disabled, the system automatically assigns interfaces based on their PCI order.

Step 4 If Enabled, add vHBAs or vNICs.

Step 5 In Preference, select the Virtual Slot Selection Preference for each virtual slot.
Note This field is only present on service profile
templates.
This can be one of the following:
• all—All configured vNICs and vHBAs can be assigned. This is the default.
• assigned-only—vNICs and vHBAs must be explicitly assigned.
• exclude-dynamic—Dynamic vNICs and vHBAs cannot be assigned.
• exclude-unassigned—Unassigned vNICs and vHBAs cannot be assigned.
• exclude-usnic—usNIC vNICs cannot be assigned.

Step 6 In PCI Order, click the up and down arrows to arrange the order.
Note If Manual Interface Placement is enabled, the PCI order is read-only.

Step 7 Click Configure Host Interface Placement.

Service Profile Views

From the Service Profiles page you can view a list of all service profiles in Cisco UCS Central, and filter
which service profiles are displayed.

Service Profile Detail View

The Service Profile page displays detailed information about a service profile. From here, you can:
• View logs and configuration status
• Create a service profile template from this service profile
• Delete, clone, or rename the service profile
• Assign or unassign a server

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Service Profile Faults

• Configure the host interface placement

• Bind to template
• Shut down server
• Reset server
• Launch KVM and UCS Domain

Service Profile Faults

Cisco UCS Central collects and displays all the Cisco UCS Central service profile faults on the Service Profile
Fault Logs page. To view service profile faults, click the Faults icon in the Fault Summary section of a
Service Profile details page. The Faults Logs page displays information on the type and severity level of the
fault, and allow you to monitor and acknowledge the system faults, and filter the faults that are displayed.
The faults table includes the following information for each fault:
• Code—The ID associated with the fault
• Timestamp—Date and time at which the fault occurred
• Type—Origin of the fault
• Cause—Cause of the fault
• Affected Object—The component that is affected by this fault
• Fault Details—The details of the fault.
• Severity—The severity of the fault
• Action—Any action required by the fault

To manage the information that is collected, see the Cisco UCS Central Administration Guide.

Service Profile Server Faults

Cisco UCS Central collects and displays all the server faults associated with a service profile. To view server
faults, click the Faults icon in the Server Fault Summary section of a Service Profile details page. The
Faults Logs page displays information on the type and severity level of the fault, and allow you to monitor
and acknowledge the system faults, and filter the faults that are displayed.
The faults table includes the following information for each fault:
• Code—The ID associated with the fault
• Timestamp—Date and time at which the fault occurred
• Type—Origin of the fault
• Cause—Cause of the fault
• Affected Object—The component that is affected by this fault
• Fault Details—The details of the fault.
• Severity—The severity of the fault

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• Action—Any action required by the fault

To manage the information that is collected, see the Cisco UCS Central Administration Guide.

Service Profile Event Logs

Displays event logs for the selected service profile. This can include the following:
• ID—Unique identifier associated with the event that caused the fault
• Timestamp—Date and time at which the event occurred
• Trig. By—Type of user associated with the event
• Affected Object—The component that is affected by the event

Service Profile Audit Logs

Displays the audit logs for the selected service profile. This includes the following:
• Resources that were accessed
• Day and time at which the event occurred
• Unique identifier associated with the log message
• The user who triggered an action to generate the audit log. This can be an internal session or an external
user who made a modification using the Cisco UCS Central GUI or the Cisco UCS Central CLI.
• The source that triggered the action
• The component that is affected

Service Profile Templates

Service profile templates enable you to quickly create several service profiles with the same basic parameters,
such as the number of vNICs and vHBAs, and with identity information drawn from the same pools. There
are two types of service profile templates:
• Initial—Service profiles created from this template inherit all the properties of the template, but will not
be updated when this template is updated.
• Updating—Service profiles created from this template remain connected, and will be updated when this
template is updated.

Creating or Editing a Service Profile Template

Service profile templates created in Cisco UCS Central can be used on any of your registered Cisco UCS
domains.

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Creating or Editing a Service Profile Template

Note When you edit an existing template, you should click Evaluate to estimate the impact of the changes,
such as requiring a server reboot. Changes made to a service profile template affect all service profiles
that are bound to that template.

Step 1 In the Actions bar, type Create Service Profile Template and press Enter.
Step 2 In Basic, select the Organization where you want to create the service profile template.
a) Enter a Name and optional Description and User Label to help identify the service profile template.
b) Select the Template Instantiation Mode to determine whether service profiles created from this template will be
updated when this template is updated.
c) Set the Desired Power State on Association to Power Off if you want all servers to be powered down after being
associated, otherwise, select On.
d) Select whether to enable Compatability Check on Migration Using Server Pool.
You must select a server pool on the Servers tab if you select Enabled.

Step 3 Click Identifiers to assign identifiers for this service profile.

Click each identifier that you want to use. On the right, click the drop-down to display available pools and choose the
one you want to use for this service profile template.

Step 4 In LAN, click Policy to assign existing policies or click Advanced to create new vNICs or iSCSI vNICs for this service
profile template.
For more information on creating vNICs, see the Cisco UCS Central Network Management Guide.
Note We recommend that you choose existing policies for your LAN settings. Individual settings are not efficient
for a scale environment.
Step 5 In SAN, click Policy to assign existing policies or click Advanced to create new vHBAs and assign WWPN pools for
this service profile template.
For more information on creating vHBAs, see the Cisco UCS Central Storage Management Guide.
Note We recommend that you choose existing policies for your SAN settings. Individual settings are not efficient for
a scale environment.
Step 6 Click Servers to assign an existing server pool or server pool qualification policy.
You can click on the policies, use the drop-down option on the right, and select the server-related policies that you want
to assign to this template.

Step 7 Click Storage to assign an existing local disk configuration policy or storage profile.
You can click on the policies, use the drop-down option on the right, and select the storage-related policies that you want
to assign to this template.

Step 8 Click Policies to assign existing policies to the service profile template.
You can click on all service profile related policies, use the drop-down option on the right, and assign policies to this
template.

Step 9 Click Create.

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Service Profile Template Detail View

Service Profile Template Detail View

The Service Profile Template page displays detailed information about a service profile template. From here,
you can:
• View audit logs
• Delete, clone, or rename the service profile template
• Create a service profile from this service profile template
• Configure the host interface placement

Viewing Service Profile Configuration Status

Step 1 In the Search bar, click the Search icon and select Service Profiles.
Step 2 Click the service profile that you want to view.
Step 3 On the service profile page, click the Alerts icon on the far right and select Configuration Status.
The Configuration Status page for the selected service profile displays.

Step 4 Click Close to close the window.

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