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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

Overview of this book

Cisco Unified Computing System(UCS) provides unique features for the contemporary data centres. Cisco UCS is a unified solution that consolidates computing, network and storage connectivity components along-with centralized management. Cisco UCS reduces TCO and improves scalability and flexibility. Stateless computing blade server's design simplifies the troubleshooting, and Cisco-patented extended memory technology provides higher virtualized servers consolidation results. A hands-on guide to take you through deployment in Cisco UCS. With real-world examples for configuring and deploying Cisco UCS components, this book will prepare you for the practical deployments of Cisco UCS data centre solutions. If you want to learn and enhance your hands-on skills with Cisco UCS solutions, this book is certainly for you. Starting with the description of Cisco UCS equipment options, this hands-on guide then introduces Cisco UCS Emulator which is an excellent resource to practically learn Cisco UCS components' deployment. You will also be introduced to all areas of UCS solutions with practical configuration examples. You will also discover the Cisco UCS Manager, which is the centralized management interface for Cisco UCS. Once you get to know UCS Manager, the book dives deeper into configuring LAN, SAN, identity pools, resource pools, and service profiles for the servers. The book also presents other administration topics including Backup, Restore, user's roles, and high availability cluster configuration. Finally, you will learn about virtualized networking, 3rd party integration tools and testing failure scenarios. You will learn everything you need to know for the rapidly growing Cisco UCS deployments in the real-world.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing high availability


The Fabric Interconnect cluster can be monitored from the UCS Manager GUI. The GUI provides information the primary and secondary peers and management IP. Perform the following steps to do this:

  1. Log in to UCS Manager.

  2. Click on the Equipment tab in the navigation pane.

  3. Click on the Fabric Interconnects tab on the navigation pane and the work pane shows the high-availability status on the right-hand side pane.

  4. This figure shows that this is the active primary Fabric Interconnect because the Leadership status is indicated as Primary.

Fabric Interconnect IPs or the shared cluster IP (also known as VIP) can also be changed from the GUI. Follow these steps to configure the IPs:

  1. Log in to UCS Manager.

  2. Click on the Admin tab on the navigation pane.

  3. Click on the All tab on the navigation pane and the General tab on the work pane.

  4. Click on Management Interfaces on the work pane.

  5. A new pop-up window will show all the IP settings:

  6. In the pop-up window, any of the IP addresses can be...