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The Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility (SCU) is an application that helps you manage various tasks on your server. The utility helps you easily set up and manage your servers from a single application.
UCS-SCU reduces the complexity and time associated with setting up and maintaining Cisco C-Series servers. Server deployment is made easier. It guides you through questions to help quickly configure the server through automatic recognition of server hardware, with minimal reboots and an automated unattended operating system installation.
Using the SCU, you can perform the following tasks:
Note Cisco UCS SCU does not support Internationalization.
UCS-SCU supports unattended installation of the following operating systems:
Table 1-1 shows the LOM and LSI controller devices supported by UCS-SCU.
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Note The UCS-SCU RAID configuration utility detects the physical drivers only once when you enter this function area after the system is rebooted. Do not remove or add hard disk drivers while navigating within this function area.
Note Some LSI RAID controllers take time to complete the operation during RAID configuration. SCU does not have any control over this issue. As a workaround, you can either recreate the RAID or wait for the operation to complete.
The following are the minimum hardware requirements for UCS-SCU:
Note Currently UCS-SCU supports only Intel adapters.