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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

FEX IO modules – failure and recovery


IOM provides southbound connectivity to servers using Backplane ports and northbound connectivity to Fabric Interconnects using Fabric Ports. When a service profile is successfully associated with the server, the Backplane port's status shows as Up.

Use the following procedure the look into the status of IOM Backplane and Fabric Ports:

  1. Log in to UCS Manager.

  2. Click on the Equipment tab in the navigation pane.

  3. In the Equipment tab, expand the desired server in the desired chassis.

  4. Expand the desired IO Modules by expanding IO Modules, and the status of Backplane Ports and Fabric Ports will be shown in the Work pane.

  5. The following screenshot shows the Backplane Ports statuses that are connected to the server's mezzanine card:

  6. The following screenshot shows the Fabric Ports statuses that are connected with Fabric Interconnect server ports:

It is also possible to configure a port channel for the IOM Fabric Ports connected to Fabric Interconnect. This configuration...