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Appendix B Solution Prerequisites Checklists
Storage Management Requirements
Storage Management Requirements
Cisco UCS Manager Provisioning Requirements
Table B-3 Requirements—Storage Management
Requirement
Create storage and configure as datastores
Table B-4 Requirement—Installing and Configuring UCS Manager
Requirement
UCS Manager is installed and configured before installing Cisco IAC
Table B-5 Requirements—Creating UCS Manager Pools
Requirement
UUID suffix pool
MAC address pool
WWNN pool
WWPN pool
Table B-6 Requirements—Creating Cisco UCS Manager Service Profile Templates and Policies
Requirement
A hypervisor service profile template, per cluster, with the same quantity and configuration of
vNICs as on other hosts in the same cluster. The native VLAN for the first vNIC should be set
to the Management VLAN for that vCenter.
Note Required only if ESXi Provisioning is enabled.
At least one service profile template for physical server provisioning.
Note Required only if Physical Server Ordering is enabled.
A local boot policy assigned to the physical server service profile template which is set to boot
from local disk
A boot policy named "PXEBoot" which is configured to boot from the network
Note This name is mandatory
UCS blades for provisioning VMware ESXi hypervisor hosts have at least one local drive