In this chapter, we learned about creating different identity and resource pool options available with the UCS platform. We learned that by leveraging identity and resource pools, the UCS platform makes server deployments highly scalable, flexible, and portable. Well-organized resource and identity pools in UCS not only provide security and role-based access for larger organizations based on geographical, departmental, or any other criteria, but are also the basic building blocks for contemporary multi-tenancy cloud-service environments.

So far, we have learned about LAN configuration, SAN configuration, server policies, and identity and resource pools, which are the building blocks for creating service profiles. In the next chapter, we will use LAN configuration, SAN configuration, server policies, and vNIC/vHBA templates and identity and resource pools to configure the service profiles that abstract all the necessary configurations for stateless physical blade servers.