Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions电子书

Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

Credits

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Cisco UCS Physical Architecture and Installing UCS Hardware

Looking at the UCS equipment

Stateless computing

Rapid provisioning of servers

Simplified troubleshooting

Virtualization readiness

Choice of industry-standard form factors

Extended memory technology for increased density

Understanding the physical architecture of UCS

The Cisco UCS FIs

The Cisco UCS blade servers

The Cisco UCS rack-mount servers

Understanding FIs

The Cisco 6296UP FI

The Cisco 6248UP FI

The Cisco 6140UP FI

The Cisco 6120UP FI

Exploring connectivity transceivers for FIs

The Cisco UCS 5100 series blade server chassis

A look at the chassis front

A look at the chassis back

Environmental requirements

IOM modules

The Cisco 2208XP IOM card

The Cisco 2204XP IOM card

The Cisco 2104XP IOM card

Blade servers and rack-mount servers

Learning more about blade servers

The B22 M3 blade server

B200 M1/M2/M3 blade servers

B230 M1/M2 blade servers

The B420 M3 blade server

B440 M1/M2 blade servers

Learning more about rack-mount servers

The C22 M3 rack-mount server

The C24 M3 rack-mount server

The C220 M3 rack-mount server

The C240 M3 rack-mount server

The C260 M2 rack-mount server

The C420 M3 rack-mount server

The C460 M2 rack-mount server

Getting started with mezzanine adapters

VICs for blade servers

VIC 1280

VIC 1240

VIC M81KR

VICs for rack-mount servers

VIC 1225

VIC P81E

Power capacity and power plug types

Nonredundant mode

N+1 redundant mode

Grid redundant mode

Installing UCS chassis components

Blade server installation

Installation and removal of CPU

Installation and removal of RAM

Installation and removal of internal hard disks

Installation of mezzanine cards

Installation of blade servers on the chassis

Cabling FI and IOM

IOM – FI cabling topology

IOM – FI physical cabling

Summary

2. Setting Up Lab Using Cisco UCS Emulator

Configuring Cisco UCS emulator

System requirements

Hypervisor prerequisites

Installing UCSPE on VMware Player using a ZIP file

Installing UCSPE on VMware Player using an OVA file

Installing UCSPE on VMware Workstation

Installing UCSPE on VMware vSphere ESXi

Using Cisco UCSPE

Configuring network settings

Configuring hardware settings

Stash area

Adding a new chassis with blade servers

Adding an empty chassis

Configuring and adding a blade server to the chassis

Configuring and adding a rack-mount server

Modifying server components

Launching UCSM using the platform emulator

UCSPE limitations

Summary

3. Configuring Cisco UCS Using UCS Manager

Introducing Cisco UCSM

UCSM firmware version

Walking through the UCSM interface

Navigation pane

The Equipment tab

The Servers tab

The LAN tab

The SAN tab

The VM tab

The Admin tab

The Fault Summary area

Starting with the initial configuration

Step-by-step initial configuration

Global configuration policies

Chassis/FEX Discovery Policy

Power Policy

MAC Address Table Aging

DNS Server

Time Zone Management

SNMP

UCS Manager – Command Line Interface

Getting help with CLI commands

Accessing the history of CLI commands

Accessing other CLIs

Scope commands

Applying changes

An example configuration using CLI commands

Summary

4. Configuring LAN Connectivity

Understanding Fabric Interconnect switching modes

Ethernet End Host Mode (EHM)

Ethernet switching mode

Introduction to Fabric Interconnect port types

Configuring northbound connectivity to upstream switches

Configuring upstream switches

Learning how to configure Fabric Interconnect uplink ports

Configuring VLANs

Using pin groups

Dynamic pin groups

Failure response

Static pin groups

Failure response re-pinning

Configuring southbound connectivity to IOMs

Learning how to configure Fabric Interconnect server ports

Configuring IOM ports

Configuring the last piece of the puzzle – vNICs

What is MAC address abstraction?

Learning to create vNICs

Summary

5. Configuring SAN Connectivity

Learning storage connectivity options

Overview of FC and iSCSI storage

Overview of SCSI

Overview of Fiber Channel

Overview of iSCSI

Overview of Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

Storage connectivity design considerations

Learning about the FC switching mode

Configuring the FC port channel and trunking

Configuring VSAN and zoning

Learning about zoning

Learning about VSAN

Example configuration – connecting SAN directly to Fabric Interconnects

Configuring FCoE

Manual and automatic uplink pinning

Dynamic pin groups

Failure response

Static pin groups

Failure response re-pinning

Summary

6. Creating Identity and Resource Pools

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

Making your identity pools meaningful

Understanding server pools

Learning to create server pool membership and qualification policies

Summary

7. Creating and Managing Service Profiles

Overview of service profiles

Different ways of creating a service profile

Creating a basic service profile

Creating a service profile in the expert mode

Creating a service profile from a service profile template

Configuring policies

Configuring the server BIOS policy

Configuring adapter policies

Configuring scrub policies

Configuring QoS policies

Local disk configuration policies

Maintenance policies

Configuring IPMI

A walkthrough of the service profile creation – expert mode

Identifying the service profile

Configuring the networking settings

Configuring the storage connectivity

Configuring zoning

vNIC/vHBA placement

Server Boot Order configuration

Configuring the server maintenance policy

Configuring a SAN boot policy

Associating service profiles

Operational policies

Creating and applying a service profile template

Summary

8. Managing UCS through Routine and Advanced Management

Licensing Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect

Startup and shutdown of Fabric Interconnects

Controlling blade server power

Status and Locator LED

Configuring logging

Configuring Cisco Call Home

Organizational structure in UCS Manager

Organizational inheritance

Role-based Access Control

Active Directory integration

Predefined roles

About UCS locales

Permissions in Multitenancy

Summary

9. Virtual Networking in Cisco UCS

Understanding IEEE 802.1Q

Learning about VN-Link

Using the NX-OS

Changes in the datacenter

Role differentiation

Role issues

Development of Nexus 1000v

Virtual Ethernet interfaces

Learning about port profiles

Nexus 1000v components

The Virtual Ethernet Module

The Virtual Supervisor Module

VEM implementation

VSM implementation

VEM data plane

VEM functions

VSM control plane

Nexus 1000v and physical switches

The physical switch chassis

Line cards

The N1KV backplane

Nexus and vPath

Performance advantages using vPath

Deploying VSM

VSM installation

Communication between VSM and VEM

Using Layer 2 connectivity

Using Layer 3 connectivity

Using the Domain ID

L2 mode

L3 mode

System VLANs and opaque data

VSM to vCenter communication

Summary

10. Configuring Backup, Restore, and High Availability

Backing up the Cisco UCS configuration

Creating UCS backup jobs

Creating a manually run backup job using GUI

Creating a scheduled backup job using GUI

Creating a backup job using CLI

Restoring backups using GUI

Configuring high-availability clustering

Configuring the first Fabric Interconnect

Configuring the second Fabric Interconnect

Fabric Interconnect elections

Managing high availability

The Split-brain scenario

Partition in space

Partition in time

Summary

11. Cisco UCS Failure Scenarios Testing

Port-channel uplink failure and recovery on Fabric Interconnect

Server link to Fabric Interconnect failure and recovery

Identifying a mezzanine adapter failure

Common mezzanine adapter error messages

FEX IO modules – failure and recovery

Common IOM error messages

Fabric Interconnect server port failure

Rectifying the Global Chassis Discovery Policy configuration error

Fabric Interconnect device failure and recovery

Common error messages with Fabric Interconnect

UCS chassis failure, reporting, and recovery

Common failure messages for UCS Chassis

Single fiber channel failure and recovery on Fabric Interconnects

Indicating a status with LEDs

Creating a tech-support file

Summary

12. Third-party Application Integration

Understanding the challenges in Infrastructure

Going deep with UIM

Understanding the discovery mechanism of UIM

Learning about the UIM service life cycle

Integrating VMware vCenter server with UCSM

Configuring vCenter with UCSM

Integration with Cisco UCS PowerTool

Connecting your UCS Manager using PowerTool

Summary

Index