350-601 Compute Practice Question
A service profile is configured to boot from local disk, but the blade server has no local storage. What will happen when the blade is associated with this service profile?
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The blade will fail to boot and the operating system will not load.
UCS Manager does not validate hardware capabilities at association time. The blade will boot and fail to find a boot device, resulting in a boot failure. The service profile can still be associated.
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The service profile will automatically change the boot policy to SAN.
Why it's wrong here
No automatic changes; manual intervention is required.
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The association will fail with an error message.
Why it's wrong here
UCS Manager allows association regardless of local storage presence.
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The blade will boot from SAN automatically as a fallback.
Why it's wrong here
No automatic fallback; boot order must be explicitly configured.
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The blade will fail to boot and the operating system will not load.
Why this is correct
Without a boot device, the blade will not boot.
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