Greenfield Environment
In a Greenfield environment, only a Cisco UCS Central administrator can add, modify, or delete objects from UCS Central. Cisco UCS Central maintains read and write ownership of all global objects. When you deploy global service profiles from Cisco UCS Central to a blade server in a UCS domain, a shadow copy of the global service profile deploys to Cisco UCS Manager. In Cisco UCS Manager, objects display with the global icon, indicating that they are global and therefore, controlled by Cisco UCS Central. Global service profile templates do not copy-down to Cisco UCS Manager.
Setting Up Logical Domain Group and Organization Hierarchy in a Greenfield Environment
In a medium-size Greenfield deployment, during the initial setup, you must create and configure the logical domain groups and organization hierarchy correctly. Consider multiple levels of hierarchy to accommodate the different requirements for operational policies among the deployed UCS domains.
In addition to firmware considerations, you may need UCS backups scheduled in different time zones that would most likely have different remote-copy destinations. Also, there may be different user authentication settings based on organization and geographic dispersion.
With the creation of global ID pools for UUID, MAC address, WWNN, WWPN, and management IPs, it is wise to plan for future growth. You can leverage single global pools for each ID type. Then you can add blocks of IDs to their respective pools for scale-out. Typically, it is more efficient for the internal DB to have fewer numbers of overall pools and smaller-size blocks. You can add more blocks of IDs to accomplish the growth and scale.
Configuring MAC Pools
Some clients prefer to segment their MAC pools, rather than using a single pool. If the network administrators must know to which fabric a certain MAC address is assigned, then segmentation is helpful. However, best practices for all UCS deployments recommend FI Ethernet up-linking to a clustered switch technology, either VPC or VSS. The MAC addresses from the two fabrics become meshed as a result.
Configuring WWPNS
Typically, administrators create two separate pools for A fabric and B fabric. They use one of the fields in the WWPN format to define A and B fabrics. This benefits the SAN Administrator by making each ID readily identifiable to the fabric to which the WWPN ID belongs. This is because most SAN fabrics are kept separate within each SAN fabric switch. With the respective fabric identifiers, SAN administrators can quickly tell if they have a crossed-fiber issue with the fabric switches.