Service profile for B200M3 and B200M4

[Hythim Ali El Hadad]

Hi,

For new implementation, Can I associate the same service profile to B200M3 and B200M4 on the same chassis or I must have 2 different service profiles ?  if we must use different SPs. what is the difference between them ?

And for migration process, if we are using a service profile on B200M3 server and we'll upgrade the server to B200M4 , can we use the same service profile ?

Thanks

[Kirk J]

Greetings.

There is a one to one relationship between service profiles and blades.

Each blade will have its own unique service profile name, and unique in the identities pulled from pools such as mac, wwpn, uuid.

When it comes to reassigning a service profile from a m3 to a m4 blade or visa-versa, this can be done.  However, if you have a locally installed OS (where you are transferring the local HDs) or a boot from san install you are continuing to boot from, you will probably have issues with your OS due to chipset, CPU, raid controller differences, driver requirements.  You would normally want to reinstall the OS with appropriate drivers.

This is not a limitation of the UCS blades, but a common requirement for OSs when you are booting the same OS media from different hardware.

You should be able to create a common template, and generate service profiles from that for both b200M3 and M4 blades, where the template is the same.

Thanks,

Kirk..

[Hythim Ali El Hadad]

Great, thank you

I think so vic 1280 and 1380 won't make difference on this case

[Kirk J]

Those are likely going to have the same FNIC and ENIC drivers at the OS level, assuming you're not changing the firmware levels.  For service profile purposes, your vnics/vhba configuration should be transparent between the two.

Kirk...