Stuart Fordham

Introducing Cisco Unified Computing System

Learn Cisco UCS with Cisco UCSPE

Stuart Fordham
Bedfordshire, UK
ISBN 978-1-4842-8985-3e-ISBN 978-1-4842-8986-0
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8986-0
© Stuart Fordham 2023
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To my family.

Introduction

This book is a guide on how to set up and configure a UCS (Unified Computing System). The beauty of it is that you don’t need to run out and buy one; you can use the UCS Platform Emulator running on a virtual machine on a laptop!

We start with setting up the virtual machine, and then look at how a real-life install would be completed. From there we will dive into the hardware that makes up a UCS system and then look at the networking requirements to make your UCS talk to the rest of the network. Once we have this in place, we move on to creating policies and profiles, which are needed by our servers. After this, we finish off with security and troubleshooting.

This book is intended for people looking to get an introduction to Cisco’s UCS.

Acknowledgments

Thanks as always to my family and my amazing team at work.

About the Author
Stuart Fordham

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, CCIE 49337, is the Network Manager and Infrastructure Team Leader for SmartCommunications SC Ltd, which is the only provider of a cloud-based, next-generation customer communications platform. Stuart has written a series of books on SD-WAN, BGP, MPLS, VPNs, and NAT, as well as a CCNA study guide and a Cisco ACI Cookbook. He lives in the UK with his wife and twin sons.
 
About the Technical Reviewer
Luca Berton

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is an Ansible Automation Expert, who has been working with the Red Hat Ansible Engineer Team for three years. With more than 15 years of experience as a system administrator, he has strong expertise in infrastructure hardening and automation. An enthusiast of the open source, he supports the community by sharing his knowledge in different events of public access. Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Fedora of course.
 
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