Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.3.1 User Guide

Cisco UCS Manager must be installed and configured before installing Cisco IAC. 

For instructions on installing and configuring the application, see 

Cisco UCS Manager documentation 

on Cisco.com.

Cisco UCS Manager utilizes different types of pools to control assignment of unique identifiers (such as 
UUIDs, MACs and WWNs) to blade servers. These pools must be created and assigned to Service 
Profiles. 

You must create the following pools: 

UUID Suffix Pool—Used to uniquely identifies each blade server.

MAC Address Pool—Used to assign a unique MAC address to each vNIC assigned to a blade.

WWNN (World Wide Node Name) Pool—Assigned to a node in a Fibre Channel fabric, and used 
to assign unique WWNNs to each blade in a range that will allow appropriate LUN access

WWPN (World Wide Port Names) Pool—Assigned to specific ports in a Fibre Channel fabric, and 
used to assign unique WWPNs to each blade in a range that will allow appropriate LUN access

For instructions on creating the pools, see 

on 

Cisco.com.

This is only needed when the Physical Server Ordering or ESXi Provisioning options are enabled in 

Cisco UCS service profile templates are used for duplicating or deploying multiple UCS service profiles 
with the same configuration. By associating pools with a template, you ensure that a WWN or MAC 
Address, for example, will always be within a pre-specified range.

Cisco recommends that a separate service profile template be created for each vCenter cluster. 

For Cisco IAC, vCenter object names cannot contain forward slashes. For more information, please 
see 

.

When you register a service profile template through the Templates portal, you will be prompted to 
associate it with a vCenter cluster if you have selected it to be a Hypervisor template.