Service profiles and templates

I was wondering what people are doing when creating service profiles for esxi. Are you creating a single service profile for each esxi server you deploy or are you using a template and then creating service profiles from that template?
Also what is the difference if using an initial template vs an updating template?

Hi Tony,
You need a service profile for each esxi server, template only provides a blue print.
As a best practise you can deploy service profiles from a template to maintain uniformity and consistency and reduce any errors while creating the sp.
Initial template is static and updating is dynamic I.e any change made to the updating template will also be updated on the sp deployed using that template which will not happen with the initial.
Hope this helps!
./abhinav
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Management IP from service profile and from server

are there a difference between the management IP from the equipment tab --> server1 --> change mgmt IP
and from server tab--> service profile--> service profile1--> change mgmt IP
as I found that when I configured the mgmt from server in equipment tab, I could not find this IP in the mgmt in service profile mgmt IP
the attachment describe what I mean

Out of band means communication over the 1G management port of the fabric interconnects.
By default, each blade in a chassis slot gets assigned a CIMC IP address out of the pool. Therefore, if you associate the SP to another blade, the CIMC / KVM address changes.
It is also possible to assign an IP address to a service profile, and avoid that the CIMC / KMV address changes, if association of the SP happens. The disadvantage is that you need a additional IP address for every SP, even if the SP is not associated. Therefore most customers don't use this feature.
Therefore, a CIMC can have a max of 2 IP addresses.

Managing service profiles and servers through UCS Central

Hello,
I am designing a workflow for automating server installations through PXE boot with global service profiles.
it creates a (global) SP and assigns a server for it, but then changing boot policy for the SP does not work, I assume because the SP is created from a template. Also Director seems to miss the required tasks to boot the SP/server through Central, and server assign return ucs server identity as empty so the UCS tasks do not work either.
Any suggestions how this can be done besides using local SPs in manager?

Hi Dani,
Global Service Profiles fall under the Organization structure. And the Organization structure/hierarchy has no relationship/dependency to Domain Groups.
So limitting visibility of Global Service Profiles/Templates to certain Domain Groups --- no, you'd have to limit them within an Organizational context.
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Service Profiles and Cisco Unified Communications

Hi All,
I need some information on Service Profile configuration for ESXi hosts that will be running Cisco Unified Communications Manager and associated applications (Unity Connections and Presence)
The B-Series Chassis will initially host 2 B200M2 blades for this purpose and I'm after best practice for the Service Profiles. The blades are running the M81KR Virtual Interface Card.
Any help is appreciated, or if someone can point me in the direction of the documentation that would also be appreciated.
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Darren

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- you must boot from local disk
- bundle your local drives in a RAID-1 group
- assign a pair of vHBAs to your profile for connectivity to your FC SAN (one to SAN "A", one to SAN "B")
- as far as networking in concerned, you have "carte blanche" (UC VMs use a single nic and Nexus 1000V is optional)
--> you could for instance create 6 vnics: 2 for service console, 2 for vmotion, 2 for vmdata. Or just 2 vnics and have Nexus 1000V "own" them. Any other scheme you find suitable is ok.
Most restrictions aren't on the UCS side but rather on specific VMware features currently supported by the solution.
See
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6790/ps5748/ps378/solution_overview_c22-597556.html
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMWare_Requirements
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Struggling to understand Service Profiles and jabber-config.xml

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I am doing my first Jabber 9.1 deployment and am striggling to understand the use of Service Profiles.
Lots of documentation I have seen states that the jabber-config.xml file should be manually edited then uploaded to the CUCM TFTP servers.
However much of the information contained in this file seems to be the same as that specified in Service Profiles.
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The documentation seems confused and contradictory!
Thanks

Neither wins. The client will use one or the other depending on the platform and version.
I am struggling to like Jabber - it seems there is a lack of quality documentation and lots of gotchas for the unwary.
I can sympothize with that opinion. There is documentation but it sort of assumes you already know how the puzzle should look and only need guidence on completing individual tasks. The gotchas are a byproduct of the speed they are running development at. IMO this will settle down a bit around the 10.0 release of the *clients* (which will be after the system release of the server software). Every solution has gotchas, we're just a bit battle-weary of them on this one.
For the moment, Jabber mastery is sort of a rare skillset similar to CCX: many can script, few can do it well. Few can make Jabber "sing" at the moment.
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The serice and response profiles are in display mode they are greyed out.
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Hello, please ignore I've replied to the wrong posting.
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How to change power state in a Service Profile Template

I'd like to change the setting "Power State" in a Service Profile Template. While I can change nearly every other aspect of the template, I can't find this in the UCS Manager GUI. Is this an immutable decision while creating the template? Can I change it via the CLI?

Hi Joernclausen,
What is the firmware version of your UCS?
From the CLI try the following and let me know if it works.
Go into the FI CLI and perform the steps below, ensure to enter your own template_name and select appropriate type of template followed by setting the power up or down
sj-ucs-r13-mon-A# scope org
sj-ucs-r13-mon-A /org # enter service-profile template_name initial-template
sj-ucs-r13-mon-A /org/service-profile # power up
sj-ucs-r13-mon-A /org/service-profile* # commit-buffer
sj-ucs-r13-mon-A /org/service-profile # power down
sj-ucs-r13-mon-A /org/service-profile* # commit-buffer
You may also be able to change the power state from the individual service profiles
Go to the service profile and use "Change Initial Power State" button for modifying the desired-power value.
see attached screenshot

Mtu 1500 shows in vcenter but service profile template is at 9000

I have 2 iscsi nics configured on my service profile and they are set to 9000
but in vcenter it is still showing the nics at 1500mtu
any idea?

this is what i see.... Looks like it is not enabled?
sh policy-map
Type qos policy-maps
====================
policy-map type qos ISCSI
class class-default
set cos 5
Type queuing policy-maps
========================
policy-map type queuing default-in-policy
class type queuing in-q1
queue-limit percent 50
bandwidth percent 80
class type queuing in-q-default
queue-limit percent 50
bandwidth percent 20
policy-map type queuing default-out-policy
class type queuing out-pq1
priority level 1
queue-limit percent 16
class type queuing out-q2
queue-limit percent 1
class type queuing out-q3
queue-limit percent 1
class type queuing out-q-default
queue-limit percent 82
bandwidth remaining percent 25
policy-map type queuing default-4q-8e-in-policy
class type queuing 2q4t-8e-in-q1
queue-limit percent 10
bandwidth percent 50
class type queuing 2q4t-8e-in-q-default
queue-limit percent 90
bandwidth percent 50
policy-map type queuing default-4q-8e-out-policy
class type queuing 1p3q1t-8e-out-pq1
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class type queuing 1p3q1t-8e-out-q2
bandwidth remaining percent 33
class type queuing 1p3q1t-8e-out-q3
bandwidth remaining percent 33
class type queuing 1p3q1t-8e-out-q-default
bandwidth remaining percent 33
Type control-plane policy-maps
==============================
policy-map type control-plane copp-system-p-policy-strict
class copp-system-p-class-critical
set cos 7
police cir 39600 kbps bc 250 ms conform transmit violate drop
class copp-system-p-class-important
set cos 6
police cir 1060 kbps bc 1000 ms conform transmit violate drop
class copp-system-p-class-management
set cos 2
police cir 10000 kbps bc 250 ms conform transmit violate drop
class copp-system-p-class-normal
set cos 1
police cir 680 kbps bc 250 ms conform transmit violate drop
class copp-system-p-class-normal-dhcp
set cos 1
police cir 680 kbps bc 250 ms conform transmit violate drop
class copp-system-p-class-normal-dhcp-relay-response
set cos 1
police cir 900 kbps bc 500 ms conform transmit violate drop
class copp-system-p-class-redirect
set cos 1
police cir 280 kbps bc 250 ms conform transmit violate drop
class copp-system-p-class-exception
set cos 1
police cir 360 kbps bc 250 ms conform transmit violate drop
class copp-system-p-class-monitoring
set cos 1
police cir 130 kbps bc 1000 ms conform transmit violate drop
class copp-system-p-class-l2-unpoliced
police cir 8 gbps bc 5 mbytes conform transmit violate transmit
class copp-system-p-class-undesirable
set cos 0
police cir 32 kbps bc 250 ms conform drop violate drop
class copp-system-p-class-l2-default
police cir 100 kbps bc 250 ms conform transmit violate drop
class class-default
set cos 0
police cir 100 kbps bc 250 ms conform transmit violate drop
Type network-qos policy-maps
============================
policy-map type network-qos default-nq-4e-policy
class type network-qos c-nq-4e-drop
congestion-control tail-drop
mtu 1500
class type network-qos c-nq-4e-ndrop-fcoe
pause
mtu 2112
class type network-qos c-nq-4e-ndrop
pause
mtu 2112
policy-map type network-qos default-nq-6e-policy
class type network-qos c-nq-6e-drop
congestion-control tail-drop
mtu 1500
class type network-qos c-nq-6e-ndrop-fcoe
pause
mtu 2112
class type network-qos c-nq-6e-ndrop
pause
mtu 2112
policy-map type network-qos default-nq-7e-policy
class type network-qos c-nq-7e-drop
congestion-control tail-drop
mtu 1500
class type network-qos c-nq-7e-ndrop-fcoe
pause
mtu 2112
policy-map type network-qos default-nq-8e-policy
class type network-qos c-nq-8e
congestion-control tail-drop
mtu 1500

Jabber 4 Everyone default service profile

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A customer running UCM 9.1.2 with IM&P 9.1.2. They have rolled out Jabber Desktop as the default application for IM and Presence for the organization. We have setup several "SERVICE PROFILES" inside of UCM to differentiate between Ehanced Presence for employees that have both IP Phones and Jabber, and just Regular Presence for employees that do not have an IP Phone on the system. We made the Regular Presence the "DEFAULT SERVICE PROFILE" and then we ran a bulk update to update all users "currently" in the directory to have the option
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I have the same issue and at the moment no solution for that.
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Error in F4 unknown field in structure service profile CRMD_SERWI

Hello,
I just added new Service Profiles and when Im creatin a new Service and adding a Reject service Profile the search field is empty and the message says:
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(even it is very old post am giving an approach which may help others)
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DATA:
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         lt_inmap TYPE if_bsp_wd_valuehelp_f4descr=>gtype_param_mapping_tab,
         lt_outmap TYPE if_bsp_wd_valuehelp_f4descr=>gtype_param_mapping_tab.
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CREATE OBJECT rv_valuehelp_descriptor TYPE CL_BSP_WD_VALUEHELP_F4DESCR
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In our client environmen we will be charging customer for various priorities of SLAs defined. And some more complex calculation for pricing, again dependent upon these. For this we have to replicate Response Profile and Service Profile to ECC. Which will be used for pricing in service order.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3249062
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