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Cisco UCS Cookbook

By : Victor Wu
Book Image

Cisco UCS Cookbook

By: Victor Wu

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Cisco UCS Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SAN boot configuration in HP 3PAR Storage


In this recipe, we will learn how to install and configure Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SAN boot in HP 3PAR Storage.

Getting ready

Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2208XP installed, each UCS IOM is connected to one Cisco UCS 6428UP. There is one UCS B200 M3 with one VIC 1240 installed into this chassis; configure four ports on each Cisco UCS 6428UP as an Ethernet uplink port (port 17/18) and an FC uplink port (port 6/7), which is connected to SAN Switches and LAN Switches by Fibre Channel cables. The EMC SAN Storage has two controllers, and each controller has two FC ports, which are connected to each SAN Switch. Prepare a UCS service profile, it includes two vNICs, two vHBAs. The details are listed in the following diagram:

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will learn how to prepare a boot policy on UCS for Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SAN boot installation. Assume that the name of the service profile is WIN08_SAN_Boot_HP...