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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

UCS chassis failure, reporting, and recovery


The UCS 5100 Series chassis is a critical component of the UCS solution and is fully redundant. The redundant components of the UCS chassis are as follows:

  • Eight FANs for proper airflow

  • Four power supplies for power redundancy

  • Two redundant IOM module slots for northbound connectivity

  • Redundant midplane traces for data and management traces

It is very rare that the UCS chassis will fail completely. The most common failure suspects for the UCS chassis are components such as FAN modules, power supplies, IOM modules, or Blade Servers inserted into the chassis. All UCS chassis components are hot pluggable, so in the case of a failure, the failed component can be replaced without disruption.

Common failure messages for UCS Chassis

This information is an excerpt from the Cisco UCS Faults and Error Messages Reference guide available on the Cisco website at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ts/faults/reference/UCS_SEMs.html. For a detailed...