The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) can be found in the majority of data centers across the world. However, getting hands-on practice to learn this infrastructure can be difficult, as many companies will push to have it production-ready as soon as possible. Home-labs are also cost-prohibitive, cumbersome, electricity-hungry, and noisy.
So, how do you get hands-on experience? With Unified Computing System Platform Emulator (UCSPE) and this book. UCSPE is free and can run on a laptop. Using it along with this book, you will learn how to set up, manage and troubleshoot a UCS, including the fabric interconnects, chassis and IOMs, and servers through the GUI and the CLI. All from the comfort of your own home. Introducing Cisco Unified Computing System will show you how to set up a UCS (comparing the UCSPE to a real-world deployment), customize the hardware, configure the UCS system, and secure it.
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Table of ContentsChapter 1: Setting up UCSPE ( Cisco UCS Platform Emulator)
Chapter Goal: To set up UCSPE
No of pages 20
Sub -Topics
1. Downloading UCSPE
2. Importing UCSPE into VMWare
3. Starting UCSPE
4. Real-world UCS setup
Chapter 2: The hardware chapter
Chapter Goal: An explanation of the different hardware that makes up a UCS (Cisco Unified Computing System)
No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics
1. The Fabric Interconnect
2. Chassis and IOMs
3. FEX
4. Blade servers
5. Rackmount servers
Chapter 3: Northbound Networking and SAN
Chapter Goal: To understand the UCS in relation to the rest of the network
No of pages: 10
Sub - Topics
1. Physical connectivity and port-channels
2. VLANs
Chapter 4: Policies
Chapter Goal: To create the policies we need for chapter 4
No of pages : 20
Sub - Topics:
1. Policies
2. Storage Policies
3. Dynamic vNIC connection policies
3. vNIC/vHBA Placementpolicies
4. vMedia policies
5. Server boot policies
6. Maintenance Policies
7. Server Pool policies
8. Operation policies
Chapter 5: Service Profiles and Templates
Chapter Goal: To use the policies we have to create service profiles and assign them to our servers
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. Creating an Organization
2. Creating a Service Profile Template
3. Creating a Service Profile from a template
4. Assigning templates
Chapter 6: UCS Security
Chapter Goal: to Secure our UCS environment
No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics
1. AAA
2. Hardening the web interface
3. Hardening SSH
Chapter 7: Troubleshooting
Chapter Goal: to Secure our UCS environment
No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics
1. Error messages
2. SNMP
3. Call-home
