Small Environments
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Ensure that you do not unintentionally override the LDAP settings with a subdomain group policy. |
Small Greenfield Deployments
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Creating and enforcing consistent operational policies
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Achieving maximum global service profile mobility for all registered UCS domains
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Ensuring the best possible implementation with the lowest possible administrative and operational overhead
Small Brownfield Deployments
When you register existing, deployed UCS domains with Cisco UCS Central, Cisco UCS Central presents you with options for architecting and operating. However, you may not have a compelling reason to change the existing local, logical configuration to global objects. You could keep the existing configuration intact, and build anything new as a global configuration. As older localized domains reach end-of-life and are retired, you can replace them with globalized UCS domains.
Conversely, if you need a global configuration, you can build an entire global configuration that mirrors the local configuration. Utilize future maintenance windows to gracefully power-down servers, remove existing local service profiles, and replace them with their global service profile counterparts. Plan for this scenario.
Make sure that you test in a lab before attempting to deploy in production. You can accomplish this by installing Cisco UCS Central in your lab, and then download, install, and register UCS emulators to the lab. This allows you to model the existing production configuration and test the migration process.