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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions. - Second Edition

By : Prasenjit Sarkar
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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions. - Second Edition

By: Prasenjit Sarkar

Overview of this book

Cisco Unified Computer System (UCS) is a powerful solution for modern data centers and is responsible for increasing efficiency and reducing costs. This hands-on guide will take you through deployment in Cisco UCS. Using real-world examples of configuring and deploying Cisco UCS components, we’ll prepare you for the practical deployments of Cisco UCS data center solutions. If you want to develop and enhance your hands-on skills with Cisco UCS solutions, this book is certainly for you. We start by showing you the Cisco UCS equipment options then introduce Cisco UCS Emulator so you can learn and practice deploying Cisco UCS components. We’ll also introduce you to all the areas of UCS solutions through practical configuration examples. Moving on, you’ll explore the Cisco UCS Manager, which is the centralized management interface for Cisco UCS. Once you get to know UCS Manager, you’ll dive deeper into configuring LAN, SAN, identity pools, resource pools, and service profiles for the servers. You’ll also get hands-on with administration topics including backup, restore, user’s roles, and high availability cluster configuration. Finally, you will learn about virtualized networking, third-party integration tools, and testing failure scenarios. By the end of this book, you’ll know everything you need to know to rapidly grow Cisco UCS deployments in the real world.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Powering infrastructure with a cloud solution

Consolidating the physical and virtual infrastructures into a single domain to rapidly provision resources through all the components can be challenging in data centers. The solutions available in the market can provide some level of functionality and capabilities across some components but mostly fail to abstract the underlying infrastructure to automate them. They can interface with supported vendors but are limited with other management components. Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cisco Cloupia) can be a misleading name for Cisco UCS servers only, but it is a unique tool that can automate and orchestrate all the components such as network, storage, compute, and virtualization.

It is a robust and validated converged infrastructure solution that provides unified management, simplicity, and a comprehensive ability to automate all the components in the data center...