Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.3.1 User Guide
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Managing Bare Metal and Blade Pools
Checking All Prerequisites
Installing Required Software
Before you can manage bare metal blades, make sure you have the following installed and configured:
UCS Manager
UCS Director
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USCD Bare Metal Agent
Adding Required Platform Elements to the CIAC Infrastructure
Be sure that you have added the following via Setup > System Settings > Connections tab > Connect Cloud Infrastructure:
VMware vCenter
UCS Manager
UCS Director
Note:
, for information on how to set up these (and other) platform elements.
Creating Required PODs
Ensure that you have completed the following:
Create a Compute POD for VMware vCenter Server
Note:
, for information on how to set up and manage PODs.
When you create this POD, select the:
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Cisco UCS Manager Instance
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Cisco UCS Director Bare Metal Agent
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Provisioning UCS VLAN (for physical provisioning)
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Provisioning Hypervisor VLAN (for VM provisioning)
Registering a UCS Bare Metal Image
CPTAs can register a discovered UCS bare metal images in the cloud system for users to choose when ordering physical
servers. The blade can be in Discovered, Maintenance, or Ignored states to be changed to Registered.
servers. The blade can be in Discovered, Maintenance, or Ignored states to be changed to Registered.