UCS Action to Make NetApp Storage Disks Visible
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a FlexPod data center for SAP with Cisco ACI, Cisco UCS Manager 4.0, and NetApp AFF A-Series. All systems and fabric links feature redundancy and provide end-to-end high availability. After the engineer sets the needed VLANs on the NetApp controller ports and adds them to the data broadcast domain, the engineer must make the storage disks visible for the UCS hosts. Which action must be taken on the UCS to accomplish this task? - 
Community Votes
33% of anonymous learners picked answer C. Votes are pick records left by other test-takers — they are not the verified answer.
Community Insight
This question tests identifying the correct UCS-side configuration step for iSCSI storage visibility, catching those who misapply NetApp-side storage provisioning steps.
To make NetApp storage disks visible to UCS hosts in a FlexPod iSCSI configuration, the engineer must configure IQN pools on the UCS side. This page establishes why a UCS-specific configuration is mandatory for host identification and storage access.
Choosing 'Create aggregates in ONTAP' (C) or 'Provide a storage virtual machine' (B) because those are necessary storage provisioning steps, but they violate the explicit constraint of being an action taken on the UCS.
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Expert Analysis
Why the Answer Is Correct
Configuring IQN pools (Option A) is a required action within Cisco UCS Manager to provide iSCSI Qualified Names to the host service profiles. Without an assigned IQN, the UCS hosts cannot identify themselves to the NetApp storage target over the IP network, rendering the storage disks invisible to the hosts.Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Providing a storage virtual machine (Option B) and creating aggregates in ONTAP (Option C) are both configuration steps performed on the NetApp storage array, not on the UCS. Enabling HTTPS access on the servers (Option D) is an administrative protocol setting and does not facilitate block storage visibility via iSCSI.Community Comment Notes
Several community members mistakenly selected options that represent NetApp configuration steps rather than UCS actions. As missionflamingo noted, "Creating IQN pools is the only option that is a UCS configuration," which directly satisfies the question's strict constraint.Official Reference
Exam Strategy
Pay close attention to the exact scope asked in the question, such as "on the UCS". Eliminate any options that describe actions performed on a different system or management plane, regardless of whether they are valid steps in the overall workflow.