Book description
Over 40 practical recipes to get your hands dirty with the powerful Cisco UCS and overcome various challenges
About This Book
- Master the skills of minimizing cost, enabling your business to work faster by reducing cycle times for reporting and improving overall revenue
- Work through hands-on recipes for efficient deployment approaches, see computing techniques, and explore new operational models with UCS
- Render a better work-flow management, ensure effective monitoring, and learn new deployment paradigms for the operational infrastructure with the help of this book
Who This Book Is For
This book is for competent system/network or storage administrators who are working with Cisco UCS, but now want to learn new ways to compute UCS.
What You Will Learn
- Familiarize yourself with information on the latest information on memory management practices, virtualization architectures, and the specific technical advantages of UCS
- Get a concrete understanding of integrating processes and techniques to ensure effective convergence of LAN/SAN
- Get to know the best practices of Cisco UCS, EMC Storage, and VMware vSphere
- Master migrating data from other band servers or Blade to Cisco UCS
- Comprehend how to replicate and back up UCS to remote sites UCS
- Assimilate innovative techniques to deploy UCS to leverage its full potential
- Gather information on installing and configuring automatic and manual Pinning
- Discover ways to integrate a system in Cisco UCS
In Detail
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.
Style and approach
This guide explains every task in a conversational and easy-to-follow style. You can open this book up to the task you want to learn and will be able to perform that task by the end of the recipe.
Table of contents
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Cisco UCS Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Cisco UCS Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. Cisco UCS to SAN Connectivity
- Introduction
- Firmware upgrade on the Brocade Fibre Channel Switch
- Firmware upgrade on the Cisco Fibre Channel Switch
- Cisco UCS to Brocade FC Switch connectivity
- Cisco UCS to Cisco FC Switch connectivity
- Zoning configuration in UCS Fibre Channel Switch mode
- HP 3PAR Storage connectivity of the Cisco UCS B-Series Server
- EMC Storage connectivity of the Cisco UCS B-Series Server
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2. Cisco UCS to LAN Connectivity
- Introduction
- Configuring an Ethernet uplink on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
- Configuring an Ethernet Port Channels uplink on UCS Fabric Interconnect
- Installing and configuring the NIC Teaming on Microsoft Windows
- Configuring the load-balancing and failover on VMware vSphere
- Configuring LAN pin groups on UCS Fabric Interconnect
- Installing and configuring VMware vSphere Distributed Switch on Cisco UCS
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3. Installing an Operating System on Cisco UCS
- Introduction
- Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 local boot installation and configuration
- Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 local boot installation and configuration
- VMware vSphere 5.5 local boot installation and configuration
- VMware vSphere SAN boot configuration in EMC Storage
- VMware vSphere SAN boot configuration in HP 3PAR Storage
- Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SAN boot configuration in EMC Storage
- Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SAN boot configuration in HP 3PAR Storage
- 4. Data Migration to Cisco UCS
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5. System Integration on Cisco UCS
- Introduction
- Installation and configuration of the UCS Management Pack in VMware vROps
- Installation and configuration of Cisco UCS Central
- Installation and configuration of Cisco UCS Central in Cluster mode
- Installation and configuration of EMC Storage Integrator
- Installation and configuration of EMC Connectrix Manager
- Installation and configuration of Cisco VM-FEX
- Installation and configuration of VMware VSAN into Cisco UCS
- 6. Cisco UCS Site Planning
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7. Cisco UCS Backup Solutions
- Introduction
- Backup and restoration of Cisco UCS configuration
- Backup and restoration of vSphere's virtual machine on Cisco UCS
- Cloning vSphere's virtual machine in EMC Storage
- Cloning vSphere's virtual machine in HP 3PAR Storage
- Replicating vSphere's virtual machine to remote site's Cisco UCS by using EMC MirrorView
- Replicating Microsoft Windows Server to remote site's Cisco UCS using EMC MirrorView
- Replicating Microsoft Windows Server to remote site's Cisco UCS using HP 3PAR Remote Copy
- Index
Product information
- Title: Cisco UCS Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2016
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781785888984
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