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
