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Creating a BIOS Policy
Cisco UCS Manager pushes BIOS configuration changes through a BIOS policy or default BIOS settings
to the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) buffer. These changes remain in the buffer and
do not take effect until the server is rebooted.
We recommend that you verify the support for BIOS settings in the server that you want to configure.
Some settings, such as Mirroring Mode and Sparing Mode for RAS Memory, are not supported by all
Cisco UCS servers.
Note
Procedure
Step 1
In the Navigation pane, click the Servers tab.
Step 2
On the Servers tab, expand Servers > Policies.
Step 3
Expand the node for the organization where you want to create the policy.
If the system does not include multitenancy, expand the root node.
Step 4
Right-click BIOS Policies and select Create BIOS Policy.
Step 5
On the Main page of the Create BIOS Policy wizard, enter a name for the BIOS policy in the Name field.
This name can be between 1 and 16 alphanumeric characters. You cannot use spaces or any special characters
other than - (hyphen), _ (underscore), : (colon), and . (period), and you cannot change this name after the
object has been saved.
Step 6
In the Create BIOS Policy wizard, do the following to configure the BIOS settings:
a) If you want to change a BIOS setting, click the desired radio button or make the appropriate choice from
the drop-down list.
For descriptions and information about the options for each BIOS setting, see the following topics:
• Main page: Main BIOS Settings, on page 382
• Processor page: Processor BIOS Settings, on page 384
• Intel Directed IO page: Intel Directed I/O BIOS Settings, on page 390
• RAS Memory page: RAS Memory BIOS Settings, on page 392
• Serial Port page: Serial Port BIOS Settings, on page 394
• USB page: USB BIOS Settings, on page 394
• PCI Configuration page: PCI Configuration BIOS Settings, on page 395
• Boot Options page: Boot Options BIOS Settings, on page 396
• Server Management page: Server Management BIOS Settings, on page 397
b) Click Next after each page to move to the
Step 7
After you have configured all of the BIOS settings for the policy, click Finish.
Cisco UCS Manager GUI Configuration Guide, Release 2.0
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Configuring BIOS Settings