Solved: New ucs chassis to existing environment

Hythim Ali El Hadad · ‎05-22-2016

Hi

I'm connecting second ucs chassis to a fabric interconnect . How to copy a service profile from the 1st to 2nd chassis

and is ucs director need license

and is there best practice for this new chassis

Thanks

Wes Austin · ‎05-22-2016

Hythim,

Are both these chassis in the same domain? (Under the same cluster IP address?) If so, you can just create new Service Profiles from the templates. If they are in two different domains, yes, copying XML or just re-creating the template in the new domain would probably be easiest.

If you had UCS Central, you could join both domains to Central and just use Global Service Profiles and avoid the problem all together.

HTH,

Wes

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Wes Austin · ‎05-22-2016

Hythim,

There are quite a few options when using different service profiles with new blades. You may opt to:

-Clone existing service profiles from existing service profiles.

-Created new service profiles from existing initial/updating templates.

-Create new service profile all together.

It just depends on what your needs are as far as deployment.

Here is an FAQ on UCS Director Licensing:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-director/200218-UCS-Director-licensing-FAQ.html

As far as best practice, make sure you are using Port-Channel link policy for your FI to IOM connections.

HTH,

Wes

Hythim Ali El Hadad · ‎05-22-2016

Hi Wesley,

Thanks for your reply

I mean copying templates between 2 different chassis. From the old to the new.

Is copying xml is valid or there is a better way?

Wes Austin · ‎05-22-2016

Hythim,

Are both these chassis in the same domain? (Under the same cluster IP address?) If so, you can just create new Service Profiles from the templates. If they are in two different domains, yes, copying XML or just re-creating the template in the new domain would probably be easiest.

If you had UCS Central, you could join both domains to Central and just use Global Service Profiles and avoid the problem all together.

HTH,

Wes

Hythim Ali El Hadad · ‎05-22-2016

Great

kindly what is the use of ucs director and something called cisco one in this case

thanks again

Wes Austin · ‎05-22-2016

Here is information on Cisco ONE and UCS Director use cases:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/software/one-data-center/datasheet-c78-733594.html

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/software/one-data-center/data-center-computec-part.html

HTH,

Wes