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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

Chapter 7. Creating and Managing Service Profiles

Cisco UCS service profile provides the necessary platform for abstracting fundamental building blocks such as BIOS settings, firmware, storage, and networking settings for the servers. Combined with the simplified architecture and reduced infrastructure management, service profiles provide the stateless nature of Cisco UCS platforms. A service profile provides all identities and configurations to a UCS server necessary for the installation of the operating system, making the system unique on the network.

In the previous chapters, we learned about different components of UCS solution including LAN configuration, SAN configuration, and identity and resource pools creation. These individual components provide all resources and configurations to a blade server in the form of service profiles.

In this chapter, we'll explain the role of service profiles in the UCS platform. We'll look into creating various policies for the UCS server's configuration...