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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

Permissions in Multitenancy


Multitenancy is a requirement for service providers. A service provider can provide access to multiple tenants within the same UCS infrastructure with logical security isolation between tenants so that the resources provided to one tenant cannot be tampered by another.

UCS Multitenancy can be achieved with the following:

  • Creation of a suborganization for each tenant

  • Creation of locales to restrict user access to individual suborganizations

For example, we will create two tenants: Tenant 1 and Tenant 2.

Follow the steps defined in the Organizational structure in UCS Manager section of this chapter and create two tenants. Two organizational units defined as Tenant1 and Tenant2 are shown below in the screenshot:

Follow the steps explained in the Role-based Access Control section of this chapter to create two locales for the suborganizations for the tenants:

Create and map local users as explained in the Role-based Access Control section of this chapter: