Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

Cisco Unified Computer System is a powerful solution for data centers that can raise efficiency and lower costs. This tutorial helps professionals realize its full potential through a practical, hands-on approach written by two Cisco experts.

Key Features

• Learn about various Cisco UCS equipment options suitable for your deployment and configure various Cisco UCS components like LAN, SAN, Resource pools, Backup, Restore, RBAC, policies, and service profiles
• Configure Cisco UCS Emulator for Cisco UCS practice lab and integrate Cisco UCS with 3rd party applications
• With implementation examples for each topic using the Cisco UCS Emulator , learn how to configure your Cisco UCS environment
• The book will follow a hands-on approach to help you deploy servers and application stacks

Book Description

What you will learn

• Understand the options for Cisco UCS hardware components and their selection
• Discover Cisco UCS Emulator-based lab setup
• Get to know UCS Manager interface
• Know about different LAN and SAN connectivity and failure scenarios
• Create identity and resource pools
• Developservice profiles for the stateless servers
• Learn about RBAC, backup, restore, and cluster configurations
• Get introduced to Nexus 1K integration and integrating 3rd party tools for enhanced features

Who this book is for

If you are a professional such as a system, network, or storage administrator who is responsible for Cisco UCS deployments, this is the perfect book for you. You should have some basic knowledge of the server's architecture, network, and storage technologies. Familiarity with virtualization technologies is also recommended (though not necessary) as the majority of real-world UCS deployments run virtualized loads. Knowledge of Nexus OS is not necessary as the majority of the management tasks are handled in a graphical user interface with very few exceptions using the CLI.