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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

UCS Manager – Command Line Interface


UCSM's command line is different from Cisco's regular IOS and even NXOS (Nexus is the base platform of FIs that runs UCSM). UCSM CLI does provide the same tab completion options as IOS and NXOS. You can either SSH to log in remotely or log in locally through the console access to the FI for getting access to the UCS CLI.

Each UCS component can be configured using the GUI or CLI commands. Each GUI tab and each component present in the infrastructure and represented in the GUI has an equivalent CLI configuration command. You can navigate through various UCS components using the scope command.

Once connected to the CLI, it is also possible to connect to the other advanced CLIs introduced later in the chapter.

Getting help with CLI commands

On the blank command prompt, typing ? lists all the available commands for the mode you are in. It lists all the available keywords and arguments for the command at the current position in the command syntax as shown in the...