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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

Organizational structure in UCS Manager


The UCS organizational structure provides hierarchical configuration of the UCS resources. An organization can be created for policies, pools, and service profiles. The default organization for each category is root. Based on the requirement, multiple sub-organizations can be created under the root organization. It is also possible to create a nested sub-organization under another sub-organization. The hierarchical configuration into sub-organizations has the following benefits:

  • Role-based Access Control (RBAC): For large setups, it is often necessary to delegate operational management to a team of professionals, and often with limited level of access to the resource, according to the role of the individual. Creating a sub-organization and mapping appropriate user roles provides excellent security privileges and nonrepudiation.
  • Multitenancy: For service providers, a sub-organization's configuration provides the logical access isolation for the various...