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At the end your Boot from SAN policy should look like:
9.
The last step is to make the association of the service profile template to the Boot from SAN
policy during the service profile template configuration.
One could also modify the Boot order as shown:
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This completes the BFS configuration on Cisco UCS Manager. When the service profile is
created out of the template, each server will be ready to boot from SAN provided the appropriate
OS installation steps has taken place.
5.6 NetApp Storage Configuration
Two NetApp Storage (FAS3140 and FAS3170) were used for large scale 16 host testing scenarios (Figure 44):
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FAS3140 was used to host:
◦ All infrastructure Virtual Servers on a single Volume provided by a single controller (2)
◦ 3 VDA Volumes 2 from one Controller (1) and 1 from controller (2)
◦ Boot volume for 16 XenServer Hosts
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FAS3170 with PAM-II cards was used to host:
◦ 2 VDA volumes, one from each controller