A service profile template is an excellent feature of UCS Manager which assists in provisioning multiple physical servers with similar hardware configuration through a single profile source. A template can be configured once for each type of server in the environment and can be used to create multiple service profiles for the physical servers with the same specifications very quickly.

The procedure to create service profile templates follows the same steps as creating a service profile in the expert mode. In production environments, a service profile template is highly recommended as it facilitates consistent server provisioning with ease and also reduces the chances of human errors occurring due to repeated manual profile creation steps.

We will provide detailed procedures for creating and applying a service profile template in the final section of this chapter after explaining how to configure policies and providing a walkthrough of service profile creation using the expert mode.