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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

Introducing Cisco UCSM


Cisco UCSM provides unified management of all hardware and software components for the Cisco UCS solution. UCSM also provides both graphical and command line user interfaces and is embedded into Fabric Interconnects (FIs).

UCSM controls multiple UCS chassis. The number of chassis that can be controlled by UCSM is 20, but the actual number of manageable chassis is dependent upon the model and the number of physical uplinks from each chassis' Input Output Module (IOM) or Fabric Extender (FEX) module to FIs. UCSM provides unified visibility and management for servers, network, and storage resources. The core functions that UCSM provides are as follows:

  • Identity and resource pools: UCSM provides identity and resource pools to abstract the compute node identities for the stateless servers whereas traditional servers use the hardware burned-in identities. These identities and resources include Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs), Media Access Controls (MACs), World Wide...