KVM - BIOS-Policies

[Mike Farnschlaeder]

Hi!

A customer of us Currently operates VMware 5.5 on their UCS hardware.
For that BIOS adapter Policies were created for VMware .

Now wthe customer also wants to use KVM as a hypervisor on it and needs the corresponding policies .
Where can I find information for this?

 So far I found only on the following link :

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/Virtualization/flexpod_rhel.html#wp588762

There , however, only the adapter-policy for RHEL 6 is defined , but not the BIOS Policy.

Besides, I do not know whether the configuration fits for KVM on RHEL 6 or generally applies only to RHEL 6

Does anybody know that?

Thanks!

[Walter Dey]

Hi Mike

I believe, that once you create a service profile, you can select from predefined adaptor policies, like: "VMware", "Windows", "Linux",...

I don't think that there is e.g. a specific one for RHEL, SUSE,.....

or you can create your own Ethernet and Fibre channel Adapter Policy

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/gui/config/guide/2-2/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_2.pdf
p 318 ff
Walter.

[Keny Perez]

We do not provide one per OS but this may help you with the BIOS config part...

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/whitepaper_c11-727827.html  <<< M3 servers

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c-series-rack-servers/whitepaper_C11-733130.html  << M4 serers

-Kenny