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12.7. Using Cisco UCS as Bare Metal Host CloudPlatform ................................................ 105
12.7.1. Registering a UCS Manager ......................................................................... 106
12.7.2. Associating a Profile with a UCS Blade ......................................................... 106
12.7.3. Disassociating a Profile from a UCS Blade .................................................... 107
12.8. Changing Host Password ........................................................................................ 107
12.9. Over-Provisioning and Service Offering Limits .......................................................... 108
12.9.1. Limitations on Over-Provisioning in XenServer and KVM ................................ 109
12.9.2. Requirements for Over-Provisioning .............................................................. 109
12.9.3. Setting Over-Provisioning Ratios ................................................................... 109
12.9.4. Service Offering Limits and Over-Provisioning ................................................ 110
12.10. VLAN Provisioning ................................................................................................ 110
12.10.1. VLAN Allocation Example ........................................................................... 111
12.10.2. Adding Non Contiguous VLAN Ranges ........................................................ 111
12.10.3. Assigning VLANs to Isolated Networks ........................................................ 112
13. Working with Templates 113
13.1. Creating Templates: Overview ................................................................................. 113
13.2. Requirements for Templates ................................................................................... 113
13.3. Best Practices for Templates ................................................................................... 113
13.4. The Default Template ............................................................................................. 113
13.5. Private and Public Templates .................................................................................. 114
13.6. Creating a Template from an Existing Virtual Machine .............................................. 114
13.7. Creating a Template from a Snapshot ..................................................................... 115
13.8. Uploading Templates .............................................................................................. 115
13.9. Exporting Templates ............................................................................................... 117
13.10. Creating a Windows Template ............................................................................... 117
13.10.1. System Preparation for Windows Server 2008 R2 ........................................ 117
13.10.2. System Preparation for Windows Server 2003 R2 ........................................ 121
13.11. Importing Amazon Machine Images ....................................................................... 122
13.12. Converting a Hyper-V VM to a Template ................................................................ 125
13.13. Adding Password Management to Your Templates ................................................. 126
13.13.1. Linux OS Installation .................................................................................. 127
13.13.2. Windows OS Installation ............................................................................. 127
13.14. Deleting Templates ............................................................................................... 127
14. Working With Storage 129
14.1. Storage Overview ................................................................................................... 129
14.2. Primary Storage ..................................................................................................... 129
14.2.1. Best Practices for Primary Storage ............................................................... 129
14.2.2. Runtime Behavior of Primary Storage ........................................................... 129
14.2.3. Hypervisor Support for Primary Storage ........................................................ 129
14.2.4. Storage Tags ............................................................................................... 130
14.2.5. Maintenance Mode for Primary Storage ......................................................... 131
14.3. Secondary Storage ................................................................................................. 131
14.3.1. Best Practices for Secondary Storage ........................................................... 131
14.3.2. Changing the Secondary Storage IP Address ................................................ 131
14.3.3. Changing Secondary Storage Servers ........................................................... 132
14.4. Working With Volumes ............................................................................................ 132
14.4.1. Creating a New Volume ............................................................................... 132
14.4.2. Uploading an Existing Volume to a Virtual Machine ........................................ 133
14.4.3. Attaching a Volume ...................................................................................... 134
14.4.4. Detaching and Moving Volumes .................................................................... 135
14.4.5. VM Storage Migration .................................................................................. 135
14.4.6. Resizing Volumes ........................................................................................ 137
14.4.7. Reset VM to New Root Disk on Reboot ......................................................... 138