BIOS Policy

A BIOS Policy configures firmware-level settings on UCS servers. Intersight ships a library of pre-defined templates tuned for common workloads (virtualization, HPC, energy efficiency, low latency, and more). The policy is applied to servers via a Server Profile Template and takes effect on the next reboot.

Location in Intersight GUI: Policies » BIOS

Diagram

Classes

policies (compute.intersight.organizations)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
bios	List	[bios]	No

bios (compute.intersight.organizations.policies)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
name	String	Regex: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.:-]{1,64}$	Yes
description	String		No
managed	Boolean	true, false	No	true
tags	List	[tags]	No
bios_template	Choice	AnalyticalDatabaseSystems-M5-Intel, AnalyticalDatabaseSystems-M5-Intel-Tpm, AnalyticalDatabaseSystems-M6-Intel, AnalyticalDatabaseSystems-M6-Intel-Tpm, AnalyticalDatabaseSystems-M7-Intel, AnalyticalDatabaseSystems-M7-Intel-Tpm, Analytics-M8-AMD, Analytics-M8-AMD-Tpm, AzureStack-M6-Intel, AzureStack-M6-Intel-Tpm, AzureStack-M7-Intel, AzureStack-M7-Intel-Tpm, ComputationIntensive-M6-AMD, ComputationIntensive-M6-AMD-Tpm, CPUIntensive-M6-Intel, CPUIntensive-M6-Intel-Tpm, CPUIntensive-M7-Intel, CPUIntensive-M7-Intel-Tpm, CPUIntensive-M8-AMD, CPUIntensive-M8-AMD-Tpm, DataAnalytics-M6-Intel, DataAnalytics-M6-Intel-Tpm, DataAnalytics-M7-Intel, DataAnalytics-M7-Intel-Tpm, EnergyEfficiency-M5-Intel, EnergyEfficiency-M5-Intel-Tpm, EnergyEfficiency-M6-AMD, EnergyEfficiency-M6-AMD-Tpm, EnergyEfficiency-M6-Intel, EnergyEfficiency-M6-Intel-Tpm, EnergyEfficient-M7-Intel, EnergyEfficient-M7-Intel-Tpm, EnergyEfficiency-M8-AMD, EnergyEfficiency-M8-AMD-Tpm, HighPerformanceComputing-M5-Intel, HighPerformanceComputing-M5-Intel-Tpm, HighPerformanceComputing-M6-AMD, HighPerformanceComputing-M6-AMD-Tpm, HighPerformanceComputing-M6-Intel, HighPerformanceComputing-M6-Intel-Tpm, HighPerformanceComputing-M7-Intel, HighPerformanceComputing-M7-Intel-Tpm, HPC-M8-AMD, HPC-M8-AMD-Tpm, IOIntensive-M6-AMD, IOIntensive-M6-AMD-Tpm, IOIntensive-M6-Intel, IOIntensive-M6-Intel-Tpm, IOIntensive-M8-AMD, IOIntensive-M8-AMD-Tpm, JavaApplicationServer-M5-Intel, JavaApplicationServer-M5-Intel-Tpm, LowLatency-M5-Intel, LowLatency-M5-Intel-Tpm, LowLatency-M6-AMD, LowLatency-M6-AMD-Tpm, LowLatency-M6-Intel, LowLatency-M6-Intel-Tpm, LowLatency-M7-Intel, LowLatency-M7-Intel-Tpm, LowLatency-M8-AMD, LowLatency-M8-AMD-Tpm, M5-amd-virtual, M5-amd-virtual-Tpm, M5-intel-virtual, M5-intel-virtual-Tpm, M6-amd-virtual, M6-amd-virtual-Tpm, M6-intel-analytical-db, M6-intel-analytical-db-Tpm, M6-intel-virtual, M6-intel-virtual-Tpm, MaximumPerformance-M5-Intel, MaximumPerformance-M5-Intel-Tpm, OnlineTransactionProcessing-M5-Intel, OnlineTransactionProcessing-M5-Intel-Tpm, RDBMS-M8-AMD, RDBMS-M8-AMD-Tpm, RelationalDatabaseSystems-M6-Intel, RelationalDatabaseSystems-M6-Intel-Tpm, RelationalDatabaseSystems-M7-Intel, RelationalDatabaseSystems-M7-Intel-Tpm, VDI-M6-AMD, VDI-M6-AMD-Tpm, Virtualization-M5-Intel, Virtualization-M5-Intel-Tpm, Virtualization-M6-AMD, Virtualization-M6-AMD-Tpm, Virtualization-M6-Intel, Virtualization-M6-Intel-Tpm, Virtualization-M7-Intel, Virtualization-M7-Intel-Tpm, Virtualization-M8-AMD, Virtualization-M8-AMD-Tpm, Virtualization-M8-Intel, Virtualization-M8-Intel-Tpm	No

tags (compute.intersight.organizations.policies.bios)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
key	String		Yes
value	String		Yes

Examples

Example-1: The example below demonstrates how to apply pre-built BIOS templates for three different workload profiles within the same organization.

compute:
  intersight:
    organizations:
      - name: MyOrganization
        policies:
          bios:
            - name: web-servers
              bios_template: Virtualization-M7-Intel
              tags:
                - key: env
                  value: prod
            - name: hpc-cluster
              bios_template: HighPerformanceComputing-M7-Intel
            - name: energy-saving
              description: Energy-optimized profile for idle nodes
              bios_template: EnergyEfficiency-M7-Intel