350-601 Compute Practice Question
When configuring a UCS service profile for a blade server that needs to boot from the local disk, which boot order setting is appropriate?
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Set the boot order to local disk first, with no other boot devices.
To boot from local disk, the boot policy should list the local disk as the first boot device. Other devices can be secondary or disabled.
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Enable PXE boot only.
Why it's wrong here
PXE is network boot.
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Set the boot order to local disk first, with no other boot devices.
Why this is correct
Correct. Local disk is first and only boot device.
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Configure boot from CD/DVD as first device.
Why it's wrong here
Unrelated.
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Set the boot order to SAN first, then local disk.
Why it's wrong here
This would attempt SAN boot first.
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