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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

The Cisco UCS Power Calculator


In this recipe, we will learn how to use the Cisco UCS Power Calculator and export the Power Summary Report result.

Getting ready

Cisco UCS Power Calculator is a free web-based system that is used to provide a power estimate. The user can select different models of Cisco UCS hardware, Cisco Fabric Interconnect, UCS B-Series, and C-Series Server. The user can then input the power consumption and provide the checking result. You also can export a file in the CSV or PRJ format; you can access this tool if you have internet access.

How to do it…

In this recipe, you will learn how to select the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect, UCS Chassis 5108, and UCS B-Series in the Cisco UCS Power Calculator, input the power consumption, and export the result. The following table is an example of the Cisco UCS components for a Power Calculator:

Cisco UCS Component

Detail

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect 6248UP x 2

2 x Power Supply

2 x Ports Configured

Redundancy Mode: N+N

50% Power...