Cisco UCSPE is available in the OVA or ZIP file formats. It is packaged on CentOS Linux (a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone open source operating system). This virtual machine can run Cisco UCS platform emulation on a standard laptop or desktop computer meeting the minimum system requirements. The UCS Emulator application OVA or ZIP file is approximately 800 MB in size.
Configuring Cisco UCS Emulator
by Prasenjit Sarkar, Farhan Nadeem, Anuj Modi
Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions - Second Edition
- Preface
- What's New with Cisco UCS
- Installing Cisco UCS Hardware
- Setting Up a Lab Using Cisco UCS Emulator
- Configuring Cisco UCS Using UCS Manager
- Configuring LAN Connectivity
- Configuring SAN Connectivity
- Learning about storage connectivity options
- Overview of FC and iSCSI storage
- Storage connectivity design considerations
- Learning about the FC switching mode
- Configuring the FC ports
- Configuring the FC uplink port
- Configuring the FC port channel and trunking
- Configuring VSANs and zoning
- Learning about VSANs
- Configuring FCoE
- Manual and automatic uplink pinning
- Summary
- Creating Identity Resource Pools, Policies, and Templates
- Understanding identity and resource pools
- Learning to create a UUID pool
- Learning to create a MAC pool
- Learning to create a WWNN pool
- Learning to create a WWPN pool
- Learning to create IP pools
- Making your identity pools meaningful
- Understanding server pools
- Learning to create server pool membership and qualification policies
- Summary
- Creating and Managing Service Profiles
- Overview of service profiles
- Different ways of creating a service profile
- Configuring policies
- A walkthrough of the service profile creation - expert mode
- Identifying the service profile
- Configuring the storage provisioning
- Configuring the networking settings
- Configuring the SAN connectivity
- Configuring zoning
- vNIC/vHBA placement
- vMedia policy configuration
- Server boot order configuration
- Configuring the server maintenance policy
- Associating service profiles
- Operational policies
- Creating and applying a service profile template
- Service profiles cloning
- Summary
- Managing UCS through Routine and Advanced Management
- Virtual Networking in Cisco UCS
- Learning about VN-Link
- Using the NX-OS
- Changes in the data center
- Development of Nexus 1000V
- Nexus 1000V components
- VEM implementation
- VSM implementation
- VEM data plane
- VSM control plane
- Nexus 1000V and physical switches
- Nexus and vPath
- Deploying VSM
- VSUM architecture
- Communication between VSM and VEM
- Summary
- Configuring Backup, Restore, and High Availability
- Cisco UCS Failure Scenarios Testing
- Port channel uplink failure and recovery on Fabric Interconnects
- Server link to Fabric Interconnect failure and recovery
- FEX IO modules - failure and recovery
- Fabric Interconnect device failure and recovery
- UCS chassis failure, reporting, and recovery
- Single Fibre Channel failure and recovery on Fabric Interconnects
- Indicating a status with Beacon LEDs
- Creating a tech-support file
- Summary
- Third-Party Application Integration
- Automation and Orchestration of Cisco UCS
Configuring Cisco UCS Emulator
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