Troubleshooting Fibre Channel Boot from SAN on the Cisco UCS B Series Chassis
Cisco Unified Computing Solution (UCS) has experienced an enormous growth trend in the last several years becoming the standard server hardware platform in many enterprises and cloud service providers alike. One of the main differentiators in Cisco’s server solution is the implementation of stateless computing, which allows all the hardware settings of a server to be saved on a location outside the server itself. Stateless computing in UCS is implemented with an XML based software feature called a service profile. In the event of disaster recovery, the amount of time to restore the server to its identical former condition is dramatically reduced with service profiles. Service profiles contain virtually all possible hardware settings of a server, which can be applied, modified, or moved to a different blade.