This section describes how to use BMC Server Automation UCS Manager (the integration of BMC Server Automation UCS Manager with the Cisco UCS Manager) to provision blades in a Cisco UCS system. The following table provides a high-level description of the process for provisioning UCS blades and includes links to topics with detailed instructions.
| Step | Description | Supporting topic |
|---|---|---|
| Plan and prepare the environment | Review the provisioning requirements and prerequisites for the UCS environment. Some prerequisites are tasks that you must perform before you can perform UCS provisioning. | Prerequisites for a UCS provisioning environment |
| Create a UCS template and define its settings | This template contains all of the characteristics of the system that you are about to provision—the selected blade or blade pool, VNICs, boot order, policies, and other characteristics. A UCS template in the BMC Server Automation interface corresponds to a Service profile template in the Cisco UCS interface. | |
| Create pools in the Depot folder | Create MAC pools, storage pools, and (optionally) UUID suffix pools. | Creating pools in the Depot folder |
| (Optional) Create a system package | If you want to provision the operating system on a bare-metal blade, create a system package for the operating system that you want to provision on the blade. | Creating system packages with UCS-specific settings |
| Create and run a UCS Provision Job | Create, execute, and view the results of the UCS Provision Job. If you want to provision the operating system on a bare-metal blade, use the system package that you created in this Provision Job. | Creating and modifying UCS Manager Provision Jobs |
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