Creating a service profile in the expert mode utilizes all UCS features and creates a rich service profile with abstracted identities, templates, and advanced policies.

Perform the following steps to configure the service profile using the expert mode:

1. Log in to UCS Manager.
2. Click to expand the Servers tab in the navigation pane.
3. Click on the Service Profiles tab and expand root.
4. Right-click on root and on the pop-up menu that appears, click on Create Service Profile (expert). This will start a wizard to configure different options, as shown in the following screenshot:

5. Provide a Name and a short Description to the service profile. On the same screen, also select a UUID pool for assigning a unique identity to the server or click on the + sign to create a new UUID pool if needed. Click on Next.
6. On the subsequent screens, configure processor features, vNICs, vHBAs, storage zoning, boot order, maintenance policy, and operational policies, and finally associate the profile with the server:

7. We will provide details of the expert mode service profile creation steps, which we have briefly described here, in a subsequent section in this chapter after explaining how to configure various policies.