While blade servers are the dominant deployment of UCS solutions, Cisco has strategically extended its offering to include the industry-standard rack-mount form factor as well to provide users a choice against competing rack-mount server vendors such as HP, IBM, and Dell. Blade servers are categorized as B-Series servers, and rack-mount servers are categorized as C-Series servers.
B-Series blade servers
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
B-Series blade servers
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