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Cisco UCS Cookbook

By : Victor Wu
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Cisco UCS Cookbook

By: Victor Wu

Overview of this book

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a data center server platform that is used for computing, deploying, and storing resources in data center environments. This cookbook aims to teach you about various tasks you can implement to improve your existing method of configuring and deploying UCS. You will start by learning how to upgrade your firmware on Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel Switch and will move on to enhance your knowledge of LAN connectivity. We will then discuss how to configure Windows 2008 and 2012 local boot in Cisco UCS. Next, you will learn how to install the operating system on Cisco UCS and use Cisco UCS Power Calculator to calculate the UCS consumption. Finally, we’ll take a look at backup solutions. By the end of the book, you will know several ways to build and compute in data center environment using Cisco UCS.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Cisco UCS Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


In this chapter, you will learn how to accomplish tasks related to Cisco UCS and LAN connectivity; how to configure the Ethernet uplink, LAN pin groups, and Ethernet Port Channels on UCS Fabric Interconnect; how to install and configure the NIC Teaming on Microsoft Windows Server; and set up the load-balancing and failover on the VMware vSphere Server. You will also learn how to install and configure the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (DvSwitch) on Cisco UCS Server.