September 2022
Beginner
736 pages
20h 54m
English
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Chapter 17
Describing Cisco UCS Abstraction
This chapter discusses the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) abstraction. The Cisco UCS is a complex system that consists of different physical components covered in the previous chapter, such as the B- and C-series servers, which provide the computing resources, the Cisco 5108 blade chassis, the IOMs (FEXs) for the physical connectivity of the servers, and the Fabric Interconnects, which connects the Cisco UCS with the other components of the data center and is the platform on which the Cisco UCS Manager application runs. Therefore, you can see that there are various components with different functions that, through integration and centralized management, operate as a single entity. And on top ...