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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

Configuring Cisco UCS emulator


Cisco UCSPE is available in an OVA or a ZIP file. It is packaged on CentOS Linux (a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone operating system). This virtual machine (VM) can run Cisco UCSPE on a standard laptop or desktop computer meeting the minimum system requirements. A UCS emulator application OVA or ZIP file is approximately 500 MB.

System requirements

The minimum system requirements for the installation of UCS emulator are as follows:

  • 1.8 GHz CPU

  • 2 GB free RAM

  • 8 GB free disk space

  • Mozilla compatible browser (Firefox or Chrome)

  • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6

Hypervisor prerequisites

UCSPE can be installed on the following type 1 and type 2 hypervisor platforms:

  • VMware Player 4.0 and above (Windows and Linux version)

  • VMware Fusion 4.0 and above for Apple Mac OS

  • VMware Workstation 7.0 and above (Windows and Linux version)

  • VMware ESXi 4.0 and above

  • Microsoft Hyper-V

VMware Player for Microsoft Windows is a free download from VMware. For a basic home-based lab environment, VMware...