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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions - Second Edition

By : Anuj Modi, Prasenjit Sarkar
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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

Multiple UCS domain management


Growing business and application requirements in the data center can demand more infrastructure, which can lead to more than one UCS domain in the data center. This will bring more complexity and administration overhead to manage multiple UCS Managers. To overcome the compliance and risks associated with multiple UCS domains, Cisco has developed a single pane of management for multiple UCS Managers, called UCS Central software (Manager of UCS Managers).

UCS Central software delivers centralized unified management and scalability of multiple Cisco UCS domains for up to 10,000 servers, whether they are located in a single data center or spread across multiple data centers. It provides a single control point for the core aspects of UCS management, such as policies, service profiles, pools, inventory, and faults, to simplify the operations and administer across multiple domains at a global scale where UCS Manager provides policy-driven management for a single UCS...