Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions
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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

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Cisco Unified Computing System(UCS) provides unique features for the contemporary data centres. Cisco UCS is a unified solution that consolidates computing, network and storage connectivity components along-with centralized management. Cisco UCS reduces TCO and improves scalability and flexibility. Stateless computing blade server's design simplifies the troubleshooting, and Cisco-patented extended memory technology provides higher virtualized servers consolidation results.

A hands-on guide to take you through deployment in Cisco UCS. With real-world examples for configuring and deploying Cisco UCS components, this book will prepare you for the practical deployments of Cisco UCS data centre solutions.

If you want to learn and enhance your hands-on skills with Cisco UCS solutions, this book is certainly for you.

Starting with the description of Cisco UCS equipment options, this hands-on guide then introduces Cisco UCS Emulator which is an excellent resource to practically learn Cisco UCS components deployment. You will also be introduced to all areas of UCS solutions with practical configuration examples.

You will also discover the Cisco UCS Manager, which is the centralized management interface for Cisco UCS. Once you get to know UCS Manager, the book dives deeper into configuring LAN, SAN, identity pools, resource pools, and service profiles for the servers. The book also presents other administration topics including Backup, Restore, users roles, and high availability cluster configuration. Finally, you will learn about virtualized networking, 3rd party integration tools and testing failure scenarios.

You will learn everything you need to know for the rapidly growing Cisco UCS deployments in the real-world.

Approach

A tutorial-based approach which will help you understand the practical methodologies and deploying of Cisco UCS components.

Who this book is for

If you are a professional such as a system, network, or storage administrator who is responsible for Cisco UCS deployments, this is the perfect book for you. You should have some basic knowledge of the servers architecture, network, and storage technologies. Familiarity with virtualization technologies is also recommended (though not necessary) as the majority of real-world UCS deployments run virtualized loads. Knowledge of Nexus OS is not necessary as the majority of the management tasks are handled in a graphical user interface with very few exceptions using the CLI.

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Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9781782170662
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Systems Architecture
Index
Computer Science

Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

Table of Contents

Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Cisco UCS Physical Architecture and Installing UCS Hardware
Looking at the UCS equipment
Stateless computing
Rapid provisioning of servers
Simplified troubleshooting
Virtualization readiness
Choice of industry-standard form factors
Extended memory technology for increased density
Understanding the physical architecture of UCS
The Cisco UCS FIs
The Cisco UCS blade servers
The Cisco UCS rack-mount servers
Understanding FIs
The Cisco 6296UP FI
The Cisco 6248UP FI
The Cisco 6140UP FI
The Cisco 6120UP FI
Exploring connectivity transceivers for FIs
The Cisco UCS 5100 series blade server chassis
A look at the chassis front
A look at the chassis back
Environmental requirements
IOM modules
The Cisco 2208XP IOM card
The Cisco 2204XP IOM card
The Cisco 2104XP IOM card
Blade servers and rack-mount servers
Learning more about blade servers
The B22 M3 blade server
B200 M1/M2/M3 blade servers
B230 M1/M2 blade servers
The B420 M3 blade server
B440 M1/M2 blade servers
Learning more about rack-mount servers
The C22 M3 rack-mount server
The C24 M3 rack-mount server
The C220 M3 rack-mount server
The C240 M3 rack-mount server
The C260 M2 rack-mount server
The C420 M3 rack-mount server
The C460 M2 rack-mount server
Getting started with mezzanine adapters
VICs for blade servers
VIC 1280
VIC 1240
VIC M81KR
VICs for rack-mount servers
VIC 1225
VIC P81E
Power capacity and power plug types
Nonredundant mode
N+1 redundant mode
Grid redundant mode
Installing UCS chassis components
Blade server installation
Installation and removal of CPU
Installation and removal of RAM
Installation and removal of internal hard disks
Installation of mezzanine cards
Installation of blade servers on the chassis
Cabling FI and IOM
IOM – FI cabling topology
IOM – FI physical cabling
Summary
2. Setting Up Lab Using Cisco UCS Emulator
Configuring Cisco UCS emulator
System requirements
Hypervisor prerequisites
Installing UCSPE on VMware Player using a ZIP file
Installing UCSPE on VMware Player using an OVA file
Installing UCSPE on VMware Workstation
Installing UCSPE on VMware vSphere ESXi
Using Cisco UCSPE
Configuring network settings
Configuring hardware settings
Stash area
Adding a new chassis with blade servers
Adding an empty chassis
Configuring and adding a blade server to the chassis
Configuring and adding a rack-mount server
Modifying server components
Launching UCSM using the platform emulator
UCSPE limitations
Summary
3. Configuring Cisco UCS Using UCS Manager
Introducing Cisco UCSM
UCSM firmware version
Walking through the UCSM interface
Navigation pane
The Equipment tab
The Servers tab
The LAN tab
The SAN tab
The VM tab
The Admin tab
The Fault Summary area
Starting with the initial configuration
Step-by-step initial configuration
Global configuration policies
Chassis/FEX Discovery Policy
Power Policy
MAC Address Table Aging
DNS Server
Time Zone Management
SNMP
UCS Manager – Command Line Interface
Getting help with CLI commands
Accessing the history of CLI commands
Accessing other CLIs
Scope commands
Applying changes
An example configuration using CLI commands
Summary
4. Configuring LAN Connectivity
Understanding Fabric Interconnect switching modes
Ethernet End Host Mode (EHM)
Ethernet switching mode
Introduction to Fabric Interconnect port types
Configuring northbound connectivity to upstream switches
Configuring upstream switches
Learning how to configure Fabric Interconnect uplink ports
Configuring VLANs
Using pin groups
Dynamic pin groups
Failure response
Static pin groups
Failure response re-pinning
Configuring southbound connectivity to IOMs
Learning how to configure Fabric Interconnect server ports
Configuring IOM ports
Configuring the last piece of the puzzle – vNICs
What is MAC address abstraction?
Learning to create vNICs
Summary
5. Configuring SAN Connectivit...

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