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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

Creating and applying a service profile template


UCS service profile template creation is an excellent feature. Service profile templates can be created once and deployed to any number of servers with similar hardware specifications. The procedure for creating a service profile template is exactly the same as the procedure for creating a service profile template in the expert mode. Only the initial steps are different as compared to the service profile in the expert mode and is shown in the following:

  1. Log in to UCS Manager.

  2. Click to expand the Servers tab in the navigation pane.

  3. Click on the Service Profiles Template tab and expand Root.

  4. Right-click on Root and on the pop-up menu that appears, click on Create Service Profile Template:

The next steps are exactly same which we followed while creating the service profile in the expert mode. Once the template has been configured, it can be used to create any number of service profiles using minimal effort. Perform the following steps to configure...