Duration: 4 Days
In this course, you will learn to install, configure, and maintain Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series and C-Series servers with a strong emphasis on Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. You will focus on the management, maintenance, and troubleshooting of UCS B-Series and C-Series servers. You will cover virtualization solutions and how to execute a virtualization solution on UCS B-series and C-series hardware.
New features of the UCS v2.0 code will be addressed with additional information provided on the new hardware additions to the UCS portfolio, including the 6248 series Fabric Interconnects, 2208 I/O modules (IOMs), and 1280 virtual interface cards (VICs).
What You Will Learn
- Benefits of Cisco UCS
- UCS connectivity configuration and management
- Stateless computing and unified fabric
- Cisco UCS management and maintenance
- Installation and configuration of the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers
Audience
- Data center engineers, datacenter administrators, and system engineers
- Data center architects and managers
- Program and project managers
Prerequistes
- General knowledge of servers
- Knowledge of routing, switching, storage area networking, and server virtualization
Course Outline
1. Benefits of Cisco UCS
- Data Center
- Evolution of Server Scalability
- Blade Server Challenges
- Management Challenges
- Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server Hardware Components
- Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis
- Cisco UCS B-Series Fabric Components
- Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
- I/O Consolidation
- Cisco UCS Management Framework and Features
- Management Architecture, Requirements, Features, and Capabilities
- Managing Cisco UCS
- External Management Framework
- Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect Cluster Requirements
- Fault Detection and Correction Using Cisco UCS Manager
- Installing Cisco UCS B-Series Hardware
- Installing Cisco UCS B-Series Hardware
- Physical and Environmental Requirements for Cisco UCS B-Series Servers
- Physical Installation of Rack-Mount Slides in the Enclosure and on the Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis
- Opening the Cases of Cisco UCS B200, B230, B250, and B440 Blade Servers
- Steps for Physical Installation and Removal of Local Hard Drives
- Installation of RAID BBUs and RAID Key in Cisco UCS B440 Blade Servers
- Installation of IOMs and Power Supplies in the Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis
- Installation and Removal of Fan Units
- Installation of Cisco UCS B200, B230, B250, and B440 Blade Servers
- Installation and Removal of SFP+ Copper Twinax and Optical Modules
- Power Requirements
2. Cisco UCS Connectivity Configuration and Management
- Configuring Cisco UCS B-Series Physical Connectivity
- I/O Uplinks and Bandwidth Oversubscription with the Cisco UCS 2104XP Series Fabric Extender
- I/O Uplinks and Bandwidth Oversubscription with the Cisco UCS 2208XP Series IOM
- Port Personalities
- Exploring the Cisco UCS B-Series User Interfaces
- Cisco UCS Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI) Layout
- Navigation Pane
- Command Line Interface (CLI) Shells
- Configuring Compute Node LAN Connectivity
- Port Personality States of 10 Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces on the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect
- Port Personality States of Unified Ports on the Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnect
- Configuring Port Channels to Northbound Switches
- Configuring Discrete Mode and Port Channel Mode on Southbound Chassis Links
- End Host Mode (EHM)
- Disjointed Layer 2 Uplink Support in EHM
- EHM Compared to Switched Mode
- Requirements for Configuring VLANs in Cisco UCS Manager
- Role of the virtual network interface card (vNIC) in Abstracting MAC Addresses
- Failover
- Static IOM Pinning and Recovery from Failure
- Automatic Uplink Pinning and Recovery from Failure
- Configuration of Manual Uplink Pinning and Recovery from Failure
- Best Practices for Connecting Cisco UCS
- Configuring Compute Node SAN Connectivity
- Fibre Channel Switching
- Fibre Channel Operating Modes
- Fibre Channel Switching Mode
- EHM and N Port Virtualization (NPV)
- Benefits and Drawbacks of Fibre Channel Switching and EHM
- Multipath IO (MPIO)
- Configuring VSANs in Cisco UCS Manager
- Creating VSANs and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) VLANs in Cisco UCS
- Role of Virtual Host Bus Adapter (vHBAs) when Abstracting WWNNs and WWPNs into a Service Profile
- Configuring Manual Uplink Pinning and Recovery from Failure
- Support for Disjointed Layer 2 Domains with Cisco UCS Manager 2.0
- Disjointed Layer 2 Domains
- Implications of Disjointed Layer 2 Domains
- Configuring Disjointed Layer 2 Domains
3. Server Resources Implementation
- Creating Identity and Resource Pools
- Rationale for Creating Identity and Resource Pools
- Configuring UUID Pools
- Configuring MAC Pools
- Configuring WWN Pools
- Configuring Server Pools
- Importance of Creating Pools in the Correct Organization
- Creating Service Profiles
- Benefits and Purpose of Service Profiles
- Configuring a BIOS Policy to Enable Virtualization Features
- Configuring an Adapter Policy
- Creating a Quality of Service (QoS) System Class
- Configuring Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) and Serial Over LAN (SoL) Policies
- Configuring a Scrub Policy for Local Disks and BIOS
- Comparing Simple and Expert Service Profile Wizards
- Simple Service Profile Wizard
- Expert Service Profile Wizard
- Required and Optional Components of the Service Profile Definition
- Creating Service Profile Templates and Cloning Service Profiles
- Service Profile Templates
- Creating Differentiated Service Profile Templates
- Automating Creation of a Server Farm Using Service Profile Templates
- Hidden Pitfalls when Using Updating Templates
- Unbinding a Service Profile from its Template
- Cloning a Service Profile
- Managing Service Profiles
- Associating and Disassociating a Service Profile to a Server Blade
- Changes to a Service Profile that Trigger a Cisco UCS Utility Operating System Update
- Planning the Organization where a Service Profile is Created
- Moving a Service Profile to a New Server Blade in the Event of Hardware Failure
- Management IP Address, KVM, and Virtual Media
- Service Profile Schedules
- Creating Logical Service Profiles that Boot from iSCSI with Cisco UCS 2.0
- Creating a Service Profile that Boots from Small Computer System Interface over IP (iSCSI)
- Creating an iSCSI Adapter Policy
- Creating an iSCSI Authentication Profile
- Installing and Booting ESXi
- Installing and Booting Windows 2008 R2/R2-SP1
- Installing and Booting RHEL
4. Cisco Unified Computing System Management and Maintenance
- Configuring Role-Based Access Configuration (RBAC)
- Overall Framework of RBAC in Cisco UCS
- Configuring Local Users, Roles, and Privileges
- Configuring Organizations and Locales
- Effective Rights of a User as an Intersection of Mapped Roles and Locales
- Configuring Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Active Directory as an External Authentication and Authorization Service
- Mapping Cisco UCS Roles to LDAP and Active Directory Attributes
- Implementing Cisco UCS Startup and Shutdown Procedures
- Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect Startup and Shutdown Procedures
- Effects of Shutting Down or Rebooting a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect on the High Availability Cluster
- Startup and Shutdown Procedures for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
- Procedures for Power State Verification
- Backing Up and Restoring Cisco UCS Manager Database
- Supported Backup Types and Functions
- Import Operations and Disaster Recovery Restore Operations
- Configuring a Ba
Course Labs
Lab 1: Initial Configuration
Lab 2: Configure Resource Pools
Lab 3: Create Logical Service Profiles
Lab 4: Install VMware ESXi on iSCSI LUN and Boot from iSCSI
Lab 5: Back Up and Import Configuration Data
Lab 6: Upgrade Cisco UCS Components
Lab 7: Report Configuration
Lab 8: Configure VM-FEX Pass-Through Switching
