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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

Installation and configuration of Cisco UCS Central


In this recipe, we will learn how to install and configure the Cisco UCS Central in Standalone mode.

Getting ready

The Cisco UCS Central software is used to manage multiple Cisco UCS domains on a single management control panel. The Cisco UCS Central integrates with Cisco UCS Manager and provides global configuration for service pools, policies, firmware, and so on. We deploy Cisco UCS Central on the VMware ESX environment, where a Cisco UCS domain is ready, which is included in the 2 Fabric Interconnect 6248UP, 1 UCS 5108 Chassis, and some UCS B-Series Blade Servers. The details are shown in the following diagram:

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will learn how to download and install Cisco UCS Central (UCSC).

Follow these steps to download and install UCSC: