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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

Overview of this book

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, user's 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.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewer

Anuj Modi has been working in the IT field for more than 11 years, starting out his career as a system administrator. He has worked with leading companies such as Computer Science Corporation (CSC) as Wintel Senior Administrator and Hewlett-Packard (HP) as a technical solutions consultant. Currently, he is working as a unified computing and virtualization consultant with Cisco Systems (Private) Limited, providing consultations on datacenter solutions to customers. He is involved in datacenter assessment, planning, designing, implementing and optimizing infrastructure, and helping customers to build and migrate to the green datacenter of the next generation. He is also involved in the demonstration of Cisco Unified Computing Solution (UCS) value targeting cloud computing, virtualization, unified I/O, datacenter management, and orchestration. He ensures delivery of datacenter architecture and industry standard solutions such as Vblock, FlexPod, VSPEX, VDI, VXI, Nexus 1000v, Virtual Security Gateway (VSG), ASA 1000V, Unified Computing Solution Director (UCSD), and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), and helps customers with server consolidation, capacity planning of existing servers, P2V, migration of datacenter, and so on.