UCS Central

Is it possible to convert local service profile to global in UCS central 1.1(2). I tried to restore ucs central system state backup on new vm.
It restored successful but Domain went to suspend mode because GUID on UCS central changed. It is asking to unregister and register again.
I re-registered and then all global policies and profiles became local.

Hi Wdey,
Thx for u Answer!!
Yes i know this, my questions are:
1) what happent if i shut down the one UCS Central Appliance (no cluster) if i have made my hole config on there?
Is this like vcenter? There I can shutdown vCenter and the ESX Hosts works fine.Is this the Same on UCS Central?
2) I can se the option "Persistend Binding" in my Global Service Profile under "vHBA" but i can't change it to "enable" because the SP is from my Global Template. And i would't change the association.
The Problem is, that i can't change this vhba Option "Persistend Binding" in the global Template because this Option doesn't exist in the Global Template! (only in the Service Profile)
I know that things are different from the UCS Management but this is a realy important option.
And i can change it but obly if i say "unbind from Template"
For my opinion it make no sense that i have this options only in Global Service Profile and not in Global Service Template
BG
Stefe

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http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit/search/getBugDetails.do?method=fetchBugDetails&bugId=CSCuh06347
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@Gmonroy
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