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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

UCSPE limitations


UCSPE is an excellent platform for those looking to gain hands-on experience with Cisco Unified Communication System Platform and UCSM software without setting up a costly lab. UCSPE provides a profound awareness of all the hardware available for the UCS platform, and it also provides hands-on configuration experience with UCSM software.

But UCSPE has some limitations compared to the real UCSM software:

  • The system cannot be integrated with a directory server (such as AD) for user authentication
  • Server profiles configured can be assigned to the server, but an operating system cannot be installed on the UCSPE servers
  • No KVM interface to the servers is available
  • Remote monitoring data (syslog, SNMP, call home, smart call home, and so on) cannot be sent out
  • High availability of the Fabric Interconnect cluster cannot be simulated