Cisco UCS Cookbook
eBook - ePub

Cisco UCS Cookbook

  1. 364 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Cisco UCS Cookbook

About this book

Over 40 practical recipes to get your hands dirty with the powerful Cisco UCS and overcome various challenges

About This Book

  • Master the skills of minimizing cost, enabling your business to work faster by reducing cycle times for reporting and improving overall revenue
  • Work through hands-on recipes for efficient deployment approaches, see computing techniques, and explore new operational models with UCS
  • Render a better work-flow management, ensure effective monitoring, and learn new deployment paradigms for the operational infrastructure with the help of this book

Who This Book Is For

This book is for competent system/network or storage administrators who are working with Cisco UCS, but now want to learn new ways to compute UCS.

What You Will Learn

  • Familiarize yourself with information on the latest information on memory management practices, virtualization architectures, and the specific technical advantages of UCS
  • Get a concrete understanding of integrating processes and techniques to ensure effective convergence of LAN/SAN
  • Get to know the best practices of Cisco UCS, EMC Storage, and VMware vSphere
  • Master migrating data from other band servers or Blade to Cisco UCS
  • Comprehend how to replicate and back up UCS to remote sites UCS
  • Assimilate innovative techniques to deploy UCS to leverage its full potential
  • Gather information on installing and configuring automatic and manual Pinning
  • Discover ways to integrate a system in Cisco UCS

In Detail

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a data center server platform that is used for computing, deploying, and storing resources in data center environments.

This cookbook aims to teach you about various tasks you can implement to improve your existing method of configuring and deploying UCS. You will start by learning how to upgrade your firmware on Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel Switch and will move on to enhance your knowledge of LAN connectivity. We will then discuss how to configure Windows 2008 and 2012 local boot in Cisco UCS. Next, you will learn how to install the operating system on Cisco UCS and use Cisco UCS Power Calculator to calculate the UCS consumption. Finally, we'll take a look at backup solutions.

By the end of the book, you will know several ways to build and compute in data center environment using Cisco UCS.

Style and approach

This guide explains every task in a conversational and easy-to-follow style. You can open this book up to the task you want to learn and will be able to perform that task by the end of the recipe.

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Table of Contents

Cisco UCS Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Cisco UCS to SAN Connectivity
Introduction
Firmware upgrade on the Brocade Fibre Channel Switch
Getting ready
How to do it…
Download
Upgrade
How it works…
Validation
Firmware upgrade on the Cisco Fibre Channel Switch
Getting ready
How to do it…
Download
How it works…
Upgrade
Cisco UCS to Brocade FC Switch connectivity
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Cisco UCS to Cisco FC Switch connectivity
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Zoning configuration in UCS Fibre Channel Switch mode
Getting ready
How to do it…
Enable Cisco Fabric Interconnect in FC Switching mode
Create local FC Zoning on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
How it works…
Validation
HP 3PAR Storage connectivity of the Cisco UCS B-Series Server
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Validation
There's more…
EMC Storage connectivity of the Cisco UCS B-Series Server
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Validation
There's more…
2. Cisco UCS to LAN Connectivity
Introduction
Configuring an Ethernet uplink on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Validation
There's more…
Configuring an Ethernet Port Channels uplink on UCS Fabric Interconnect
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Validation
There's more…
Installing and configuring the NIC Teaming on Microsoft Windows
Getting ready
How to do it…
Downloading the Cisco NIC Teaming driver
Installing and configuring the Cisco NIC Teaming driver
How it works…
There's more…
Configuring the load-balancing and failover on VMware vSphere
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Configuring LAN pin groups on UCS Fabric Interconnect
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Installing and configuring VMware vSphere Distributed Switch on Cisco UCS
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
3. Installing an Operating System on Cisco UCS
Introduction
Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 local boot installation and configuration
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 local...

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