The architecture of the Cisco UCS system is build around a ‘stateless’ system with an extremely flexible XLM API. You will need to learn to use this flexibility to reap all of the benefits UCS offers you. UCS Manager, the software that controls the entire UCS system, is build into the Fabric Interconnects and is what you use to configure UCS.
UCSM delivers the stateless compute through so called Service Profiles (I won’t repeat fantstic Sean’s explanation of that). These service profiles are build by leveraging pools, policies and templates.
The following takes you through the steps to setup your UCS system leveraging the power of pools, policies and templates.
What you have seen is how, using UCSM, you create a catalog of connectivity options that you then pick & choose from when you create service profile templates. Having this connectivity catalog give you fantastic flexibility in setting up your UCS system.
2 comments
Tony Nelson
March 17, 2012 at 12:04 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
I don’t see an rss feed URL for this blog. Does one exist?
TJ
March 17, 2012 at 12:49 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Tony, good question, I thought it was automatically build in (at least my RSS reader on my iPad – PULSE – sees the updates by just point to the website). Let me look into this.