Why Cisco UCS

2  Architecture Cisco UCS

3  Physical connectivity of Cisco UCS – Live Demo in our Data Center

4  Components  Cisco UCS

• Describe the Cisco UCS chassis 5108
• Describe the Fabric Interconnect 6100 / 6200
• Describe the Cisco UCS 2204/2208XP IOM architecture including CMC, I/O MUX, and chassis management switch
• Describe the Cisco UCS 2104XP IO module architecture including CMC, I/O MUX, and chassis management switch
• Describe the features of the Cisco UCS VIC 1280 and VIC 1240
• Compare the number of virtual interfaces available on the Cisco UCS M81KR VIC and the VIC 1280
• Describe new mezzanine cards including M51, M61, and M72
• Describe the Cisco Integrated Management Controller management component of the BSeries blades
• Describe the creation of port channels from the Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnect to the 2204/2208XP IOM
• Describe the chassis discovery process and monitor using the FSM
• Configure the chassis discovery policy 

5  Inessential Setup & Configuration of Fabric Interconnect with HA mode

6 Types of Ports with cable types

• Server Port
• Uplink Port
• San Port
• Appliance Port
• FCOE Port
• Creation of port channel 

7 Provisioning Resource Pools in Cisco UCS Manager

• Provision server pools
• Provision UUID pools
• Provision MAC pools
• Provision WWNN pools
• Provision WWPN pools
• Provision iSCSI initiator pools 

8 VLAN Crestion 

9 Provisioning Service Profiles from Templates in Cisco UCS Manager

• Describe the requirements of service profile templates
• Describe the difference between initial templates and updating templates, including
• operational caveats
• Provision a vNIC template using the template wizard
• Provision a vHBA template using the template wizard
• Provision a service profile template using the template wizard
• Provision multiple servers from a service profile template
• Clone a service profile 

10 OS Installation on UCS Blade 

• Map virtual media to the ESXi installer ISO image
• Install ESXi on the local RAID array
• Boot ESXi from the local RAID array
• Configure a management IP address for the ESXi server
• Connect to the ESXi server with the VMware vSphere Client utility and connect to the
• VMware File System shared storage LUN on the Fibre Channel storage system 

11 Implementing Backup, Import, and Restore of the Cisco UCS Manager Database 

• Differentiate between an import operation and a disaster recovery restore operation
• Implement a backup job
• Implement backup jobs to preserve abstracted identities
• Verify that the backup is created and executed
• Implement an import job to restore the AAA user database
• Verify that the AAA user database is restored
• Configure the Cisco UCS 6100/6200 Series Fabric Interconnect for disaster recovery restore

12 Managing and Upgrading Cisco UCS B-Series Firmware 

• Describe where to find Cisco UCS firmware packages on Cisco.com
• Update Cisco UCS firmware
• Direct upgrade of mezzanine adapter, Cisco Integrated Management Controller, and IOM firmware
• Describe software updates on the fabric interconnect
• Describe the requirement for firmware updates via host firmware packages in the service
• profile
• Describe the differences between the firmware processes of Cisco UCS fabric interconnect
• and IOM, Cisco Integrated Management Controller, and adapter
• Describe how to update and activate the hardware capability catalog
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13 Implementing RBAC

• Implement local users, roles, and privileges
• Implement organizations and locales
• Describe the effective rights of a user as an intersection of roles and locales mapped to a user
• Implement LDAP providers and provider groups
• Implement LDAP (Microsoft Active Directory) as an external authentication and
• authorization service
• Implement Cisco UCS roles mapping to LDAP (Active Directory) attributes with LDAP provider maps 

15 Implementing High Availability 

• High availability connectivity of Fabric interconnects
• Cisco UCS regarding high availability
• How to configure high availability
• How to manage high availabilitY