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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

Global configuration policies


Most of the policies and configurations are assigned to servers by assigning those policies and configurations to service profiles associated with physical servers. There are a few global policies and configurations for UCS infrastructure that are not assigned to servers but are necessary for proper functioning of all the components.

These policies and configurations include the following:

  • Chassis/FEX Discovery Policy
  • Rack Server Discovery Policy
  • Rack Management Connection Policy
  • Power Policy
  • MAC Address Table Aging Policy
  • DNS Server
  • Time Zone Management
  • SNMP configuration

These policies and settings are configured under various navigation pane tabs. We will now look into the configuration of each of these.

Chassis/FEX Discovery Policy

This is the first policy we need to configure so that the UCS chassis is detected by the UCSM software. The Following are the steps to configure this policy:

  1. Log in to the UCSM screen.
  2. Click on the Equipment tab in the navigation pane.
  3. Select...