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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

Step-by-step initial configuration


Following are the rudimentary steps for the initial configuration of UCSM:

  1. First ensure the presence of proper physical cabling between FIs, IOMs, and north-bound switches as explained in Chapter 1, Cisco UCS Physical Architecture and Installing UCS Hardware.

  2. Access FIs using a serial console as there is no IP assigned to them initially.

  3. FI will run an initial configuration wizard that will assign IP and other necessary configurations which are required (detailed steps are provided in Chapter 10, Configuring Backup, Restore, and High Availability).

  4. Make sure that L1/L2 ports are properly connected between FIs so that when the second FI is powered up, it automatically detects the first FI and configures the cluster settings as part of the initial configuration (detailed steps are provided in Chapter 10, Configuring Backup, Restore, and High Availability).

  5. Assign cluster IP to get centralized management access of the cluster, also known as Virtual IP (VIP).

  6. Once...