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Cisco UCS Cookbook

By : Victor Wu
Book Image

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

Installation and configuration of Cisco VM-FEX


In this recipe, we will learn how to install and configure Cisco VM-FEX.

Getting ready

Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) collapses the virtual switching infrastructure and physical switching infrastructure into a single and easy to manage environment. Assume that you have prepared two VMware ESXi 5.5 with Cisco VIC and running Enterprise Plus License. These VMware ESXi hosts are managed by VMware Center 5.5. Cisco VM-FEX has two different modes: Emulated mode and PCIe Pass-Through or VMDirectPath mode. The emulated mode is the one in which the hypervisor emulates a physical NIC to replicate the hardware, which is virtualized for the guest virtual machine. PCIe Pass-Through or VMDirectPath mode is that VMware VMDirectPath technology to implement PCIe Pass-Through across the hypervisor layer and reduces the associated I/O overhead. The details are shown in the following diagram:

VM-FEX Emulated mode and VM FEX PCIe Pass-Through or VMDirectPath...