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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

Understanding the challenges in Infrastructure


As you support your growing business, what challenges do you face when asked to create an infrastructure that is ready to support a virtual application or test beds for a new line of business request?

  • When there are too many highly technical people involved, in a provisioning process, it wastes time

  • These guys can take weeks/months to deliver the infrastructure for a new service, which will certainly delay the rollout and impact the bottom line business

  • Normal human tendency is to make mistakes in manually-intensive processes, which becomes costly and also takes time to determine the issue

  • You may be unaware of the changes that may take the infrastructure configuration out of compliance, and this significantly leads to hardware issues in future

If you have ever faced this problem, EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM) is the solution for you. In the next section, we will go through the UIM and its benefits.