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Cisco UCS Cookbook

By : Victor Wu
Book Image

Cisco UCS Cookbook

By: Victor Wu

Overview of this book

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a data center server platform that is used for computing, deploying, and storing resources in data center environments. This cookbook aims to teach you about various tasks you can implement to improve your existing method of configuring and deploying UCS. You will start by learning how to upgrade your firmware on Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel Switch and will move on to enhance your knowledge of LAN connectivity. We will then discuss how to configure Windows 2008 and 2012 local boot in Cisco UCS. Next, you will learn how to install the operating system on Cisco UCS and use Cisco UCS Power Calculator to calculate the UCS consumption. Finally, we’ll take a look at backup solutions. By the end of the book, you will know several ways to build and compute in data center environment using Cisco UCS.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Cisco UCS Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installation and configuration of EMC Connectrix Manager


In this recipe, we will learn the concept of how to install and configure EMC Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition (CMCNE).

Getting ready

Assume that you already deployed VMware ESXi 5.5 in local boot on each Cisco UCS B200 M3, and it has one Cisco VIC 1240 installed on each Cisco UCS B200. Each Cisco UCS B200 is connected to EMC CLARiiON CX4-240 storage through the SAN Switches. The ESXi 5.5 host is managed by a VMware vCenter 5.5. Before installing CMCNE, the host has to fulfill the following requirements:

  • 16 GB Memory and 1 x Processor (2 core).

  • Disk space required is 20 GB.

  • CMCNE Professional Plus and Enterprise Editions are only supported on 64-bit Windows operating systems. CMCNE Professional Edition is supported on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems.

The details are shown in the following diagram:

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will learn the concept of how to install CMCNE Professional Edition on Microsoft Windows...