Backup / Restore configuration

[Walter Dey]

Customer does a (xml) backup of a UCS domain with 4 chassis; then he erases the configuration, does a inital setup and then a restore.

He was quite surprised, that the numbering of the chassis has been changed ?

Has this something to do with the flag "preserve identities", which he forgot to tick ?

[Walter Dey]

FYI, I did the test, and indeed, if the flag "preserve identies" is set, chassis numbering, mac, pwwn, uuid assignment are restored according to the backup configuration.

[Tom MacDonald]

Yup, always use "preserve identities" if you might have to restore from the xml file. It's not needed if you want to create a "gold image" to push to other Interconnects.....