A portable profile and a failed SAN boot
A compatible replacement server receives a UCS service profile intended to preserve logical network and SAN identity. The profile has been created and associated, but a maintenance setting leaves a rebooting change pending acknowledgment. After the approved activation, the host logs in to the expected SAN fabric. The boot policy names the correct target WWPN but an incorrect LUN, and the storage team has not yet confirmed presentation to the actual initiator identity. The operating system also expects a particular supported firmware boot mode. Two physical fabrics exist, but the host's multipath configuration has not been verified. The team needs to restore the intended boot and resilient service without assuming that profile portability eliminates every downstream dependency.
1. Which activation and boot-chain checks are required?
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Confirm the pending maintenance acknowledgment and actual activated state. Reconcile the presented initiator, active zoning, target, storage-side LUN mapping, boot LUN, and supported boot mode. Fabric login alone does not prove that the intended operating-system volume is selected and accessible.
2. What must be verified for resilience?
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Confirm independent fabric paths and supported host multipathing to the same volume. Test the approved failure scenario and application recovery. Preserving a WWPN and having two cables are useful pieces of the design but not a complete resilience demonstration.