Cisco UCS cookbook : over 40 practical recipes to get your hands dirty with the powerful Cisco UCS and overcome various challenges / Victor Wu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wu, Victor, author.

Series:

Quick answers to common problems.

Quick answers to common problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtual computer systems.

Parallel processing (Electronic computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Wu Victor: Victor Wu has over 15 years of system infrastructure experience. Currently, he works as a senior solutions architect at BoardWare Information System Limited in Macau. He is the only qualified person in Macau with a certificate in VMware VCIX-DCV, and was awarded the vExpert certification from 2014 to 2022, Cisco Champion from 2017 to 2022, Veeam Vanguard from 2019 to 2022, and Nutanix Technology Champion in 2021. His professional qualifications include VCIX-DCV 2022, VMware Certified Master Specialist HCI 2022, Implementation Engineer VxRail Appliance, Systems Administrator VxRail Appliance, Nutanix Certified Professional 5, NetApp HCI Implementation Engineer, and Knowledge Sharing Author from 2018 to 2021. He is the author of Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions, published by Packt Publishing in June 2021.

Summary:

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 per...

Contents:

Cover ; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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; Chapter 2: Cisco UCS to LAN Connectivity ; Introduction

Configuring an Ethernet uplink on Cisco UCS Fabric InterconnectConfiguring 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; Chapter 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 configurationVMware 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; Chapter 4: Data Migration to Cisco UCS ; Introduction; Migrating VMware vSphere on HP C7000 to Cisco UCS; P2V migration of HP C7000 to Cisco UCS; Migrating the MSCS 2008 virtual machine to Cisco UCS

Migrating the MSCS 2008 physical machine to Cisco UCSChapter 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; Chapter 6: Cisco UCS Site Planning ; Introduction

The Cisco UCS Power CalculatorThe Cisco UCS Manager Interoperability Utility; The EMC E-Lab Interoperability Navigator; HP Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK); The VMware Compatibility Guide; The IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC); Chapter 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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 4, 2016).

ISBN:

9781785886140

1785886142

OCLC:

945736627