Replace old blades with new

[omahascooby1963]

Can I replace a b200 blade with am older CPU type with anew B200 with a Haswell chipset by just adding the new to the same slot as the old. We are using boot to SAN

[Wes Austin]

Here are the spec sheets for each B200:

B200-M2:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/spec_sheet_c17-644236.pdf

B200-M3:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/B200M3_SpecSheet.pdf

B200-M4:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/b200m4-specsheet.pdf

The spec sheet will list the supported CPU combinations for each platform. While other CPU combinations may work, they are not tested and therefore are not supported.

HTH,

Wes

[omahascooby1963]

So Im asking if I can add new b200-m4 servers to the blade chassis slot  use the existing service profiles, boot policy from the older CPU b200 m3 which will be removed. Or do I have to create everything from new including a new boot LUN

[Wes Austin]

Hello,

Thank you for clarification. To answer your question, you will not need to recreate anything. Simply remove the service profile from the B200-M3 (disassociate), add the new blade and re-associate the service profile to the B200-M4.

Please share the results.

-Wes

[Walter Dey]

I would be rather careful see eg. VIC-1240 in B200-M3 versus VIC-1340 in B200-M4

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12608446/service-profile-portability-between-b200-m3-and-b200-m4