Thermal Policy

A Thermal Policy controls the fan speed mode for UCS servers, balancing cooling performance against acoustics and power consumption. It is applied to servers via a Server Profile Template.

Location in Intersight GUI: Policies » Thermal

Diagram

Classes

policies (compute.intersight.organizations)

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

thermal (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
fan_control_mode	Choice	Balanced, LowPower, HighPower, MaximumPower, Acoustic, MaximumCooling	No	Balanced

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

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

Examples

Example-1: The example below demonstrates a thermal policy configured for balanced fan speed, suitable for most rack environments.

compute:
  intersight:
    organizations:
      - name: MyOrganization
        policies:
          thermal:
            - name: default-thermal
              fan_control_mode: Balanced
              tags:
                - key: env
                  value: prod

Example-2: The example below demonstrates a high-power cooling policy for thermally dense deployments.

compute:
  intersight:
    organizations:
      - name: MyOrganization
        policies:
          thermal:
            - name: high-density-thermal
              description: Aggressive cooling for high-density compute
              fan_control_mode: HighPower