About server profile templates

Server profile templates provide a mechanism to store configurations for a server profile. Typically, you capture best-practice configurations in a server profile template, and then create and deploy server profiles.

Affinity

Controls remove-and-replace behavior for servers. If you apply a server profile to a server and the server is subsequently removed from the device bay, the Affinity setting controls whether the server profile is reapplied when you insert a server into the empty bay. Rack servers do not have affinity.
Device bay

The server profile assigned to the device bay is applied to any server you insert into the bay, provided the server hardware type of the inserted server matches the server hardware type specified.

Device bay + server hardware

The server profile assigned to the device bay is not applied if you insert a server into the bay and it does not match the serial number and server hardware type listed in the server profile.