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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

Introduction to Fabric Interconnect port types


By default, all Fabric Interconnect ports are unconfigured. For Ethernet LAN connectivity, Fabric Interconnect ports can be in the following states:

  • Unconfigured: Port is not configured and cannot be used.

  • Server Port: Port is configured for southbound connection to an IOM Fabric Extender (FEX) module in a blade chassis.

  • Uplink Port: Port is configured for northbound connection to the upstream Ethernet switch. Uplink ports are always configured as trunk ports.

  • Disabled: Port is configured either as an uplink or server port and is currently disabled by the administrator.

    Tip

    For 6200 series FI, all ports are unified ports; hence all the ports can also be configured as 1/10 Gig Ethernet, FC, FC uplink, appliance port, or FCoE port. For 6100 series, the FC configurations are only available for expansion module ports.

To define, change, or check the state of a port, expand the Fabric Interconnect inventory from the Equipment tab in the Navigation pane...