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Creating a vNIC for a Service Profile
Procedure
Step 1
In the Navigation pane, click the Servers tab.
Step 2
On the Servers tab, expand Servers > Service Profiles.
Step 3
Expand the node for the organization that contains the service profile for which you want to create a vNIC.
Step 4
Expand the service profile for which you want to create a vNIC.
Step 5
Right-click the vNICs node and choose Create vNICs.
Step 6
In the Create vNICs dialog box, do the following:
a) Complete the following fields to specify the identity information for the vNIC:
DescriptionName
The user-defined name for this vNIC.
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.
Name field
Check this check box if you want to use a template to create the vNIC.
Cisco UCS Manager GUI displays the vNIC Template drop-down
list from which you can select the appropriate template, and the
Adapter Performance Profile area from which you can select an
adapter profile.
You can only select this option if one or more LAN
connectivity templates exist in the system.
Note
Use LAN Connectivity
Template check box
Click this link if you want to create a vNIC template.Create vNIC Template link
If you want to:
• Use the default MAC address pool, leave this field set to Select
(pool default used by default).
• Use the MAC address assigned to the server by the
manufacturer, select Hardware Default.
• A specific MAC address, select 02:25:B5:XX:XX:XX and
enter the address in the MAC Address field. To verify that this
address is available, click the corresponding link.
• A MAC address from a pool, select the pool name from the list.
Each pool name is followed by a pair of numbers in parentheses.
The first number is the number of available MAC addresses in
the pool and the second is the total number of MAC addresses
in the pool.
MAC Address Assignment
drop-down list
Cisco UCS Manager GUI Configuration Guide, Release 2.0
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Managing Service Profiles