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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions - Second Edition

By : Anuj Modi, Prasenjit Sarkar
Book Image

Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions - Second Edition

By: Anuj Modi, 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 (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Restoring backups using GUI


UCS restore job creation is also done in the administrative configuration area of the UCS Manager GUI or it could be accomplished using admin scope in the CLI mode. We will walk through the configuration of the graphical interface and explain various options:

  1. Log in to UCS Manager.
  2. Click on the Admin tab in the navigation pane.
  3. Click on the All tab in the navigation pane and click on Import Configuration in the work pane in the General tab as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Click on Create Import Operation:
  1. On the next screen, provide details for the backup job as follows:

 

  1. The following table provides a description of the configuration options available in the preceding screenshot:

Configuration

Description

Admin State

Enabled: Import job runs immediately after the configuration is complete.

Disabled: Import configuration is completed but the job is not run immediately, which could be manually run at a later time.

Action

Merge: Merge into the existing configuration.

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