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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

Launching UCSM using the platform emulator


Launching UCSM from UCSPE is accomplished using a web browser. It is recommended to use Mozilla compliant browsers such as Firefox or Chrome. Java is also required and JRE 1.6 is recommended. In Microsoft Windows, you can check your version of Java from the Java icon present in the control panel. The following steps are needed to be carried out for launching UCSM using platform emulator:

  1. Click on the UCS MANAGER menu tab in the left navigation window.

  2. Click on Launch UCS Manager in the right Work pane.

  3. At the security prompt, accept the self-signed certificate as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. In the pop-up Login dialog box, type the User Name as config, Password as config, and click on Login as shown in the following screenshot:

Allow the JRE security-related prompts to trust the application and allow the application to run.

Tip

If you encounter Java compatibility issues while using JRE 1.7, install and use JRE 1.6.

After successful login, UCSM interface...