Question

An administrator is deploying a UCS X-Series compute node in Intersight Managed Mode. The server must boot from a local M.2 RAID volume as the primary device, with a fallback to iSCSI if the local disk fails. When building the Boot Order policy attached to the server profile, which configuration correctly achieves this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Configure the Boot Order policy in UEFI mode with a Local Disk boot device listed first and an iSCSI boot device listed second, and attach an associated iSCSI Boot policy for the vNIC

Answer

Configure the Boot Order policy in Legacy mode with only the Local Disk device, and rely on CIMC to auto-detect the iSCSI target during POST

Answer

Configure two separate Boot Order policies—one for Local Disk and one for iSCSI—and attach both to the server profile so Intersight chooses at runtime

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Configure the Boot Order policy with an SD Card device first and iSCSI second, since M.2 volumes are presented to IMM as virtual SD media