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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions - Second Edition

By : Anuj Modi, Prasenjit Sarkar
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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions - Second Edition

By: Anuj Modi, Prasenjit Sarkar

Overview of this book

Cisco Unified Computer System (UCS) is a powerful solution for modern data centers and is responsible for increasing efficiency and reducing costs. This hands-on guide will take you through deployment in Cisco UCS. Using real-world examples of configuring and deploying Cisco UCS components, we’ll prepare you for the practical deployments of Cisco UCS data center solutions. If you want to develop and enhance your hands-on skills with Cisco UCS solutions, this book is certainly for you. We start by showing you the Cisco UCS equipment options then introduce Cisco UCS Emulator so you can learn and practice deploying Cisco UCS components. We’ll also introduce you to all the areas of UCS solutions through practical configuration examples. Moving on, you’ll explore the Cisco UCS Manager, which is the centralized management interface for Cisco UCS. Once you get to know UCS Manager, you’ll dive deeper into configuring LAN, SAN, identity pools, resource pools, and service profiles for the servers. You’ll also get hands-on with administration topics including backup, restore, user’s roles, and high availability cluster configuration. Finally, you will learn about virtualized networking, third-party integration tools, and testing failure scenarios. By the end of this book, you’ll know everything you need to know to rapidly grow Cisco UCS deployments in the real world.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Changes in the third-generation UCS


Cisco has introduced native end-to-end 40 Gig support in the third-generation of UCS. With high-density 40 Gig ports in Fabric Interconnects and Fabric Extenders with 80 Gig Virtual Interface Cards. The following are the major changes:

  • Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects: These provide 40 Gig Ethernet/FCoE connectivity to upstream network switches and downstream to Cisco UCS B-Series servers and 4, 8, and 16 Gig native Fibre Channel connectivity to upstream storage switches with the 6332-16UP Fabric Interconnect Series
  • Cisco UCS 2304 Fabric Extenders: These provide up to 160 Gig throughput to each Fabric Interconnect with 4x40 Gig uplink ports and 32x10 Gig backend ports to connect blade servers inside the chassis, totaling 320 Gig throughput to each chassis with two Fabric Extenders
  • Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1300: This provides up to 80 Gig network throughput to a blade server with the correct combination of hardware
  • Cisco Nexus 2348UPQ 10GE Fabric Extenders: These provide 6x40 Gig ports of upstream connectivity and downstream connectivity to C-Series rack servers