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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

Backing up the Cisco UCS configuration


The following are the different options available for UCS data backup:

  • Full state backup: Full state backup is the backup of an entire system in the binary format. It contains the system configuration, logical configuration, and the state of the system like assignment of pools, MAC addresses, FSM, faults, and so on. This type of backup can be used in a disaster recovery scenario to recover the whole configuration of a failed Fabric Interconnect. This type of backup cannot be imported to a different system. Full state backup is a snapshot of the system at a specific time. Any changes to the system render it obsolete. Any changes after the full state backup are lost if a system is restored from the backup.

  • System configuration backup: System configuration backup consists of administrative settings such as username, RBAC, and locales in the XML format. This backup does not contain the system state and hence cannot be used to restore a system. This backup...