You can install any OS on blades, it is like single console for all blades connected with storage and network, it requires networking and storage knowledge to setup Cisco Blades. Each blade will have remote console like iLO or DRAC, you can mount ISO image and start installing OS, depending upon the requirement we can configure boot from local disk or boot from SAN, UCS engineer who has enough knowledge will create service profiles for different set of requirement like for Windows Server and for ESXi servers or for Citrix Xen servers, each requirement will have profile, just add blades and map service profile to blade access the server from console, please download UCS virtual appliace and confiure and start learning.
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