Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions - Second Edition电子书

Title Page

Copyright

Credits

About the Authors

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

What's New with Cisco UCS

UCS architecture overview

Changes in the third-generation UCS

Physical architecture of UCS

Fabric Interconnects

UCS third-generation 6332

UCS third-generation 6332-16UP

UCS second-generation 6248UP

UCS second-generation 6296UP

Fabric Extenders

UCS third-generation Cisco 2304 IOM

UCS second-generation Cisco 2208XP IOM

UCS second-generation Cisco 2204XP IOM

Cisco Nexus 2348UPQ 10GE Fabric Extender

Blade server chassis

Chassis front

Chassis back

Environmental requirements

B-Series blade servers

Blade servers

B200 M3/M4

B260 M4

B420 M3/M4

B460 M4

C-Series rack servers

C220 M3/M4

C240 M3/M4

C460 M2/M4

Mezzanine adapters

VICs for blade servers

UCS third-generation VIC 1380

UCS third-generation VIC 1340

UCS second-generation VIC 1280

UCS second-generation VIC 1240

VICs for rack-mount servers

UCS third-generation VIC 1387

UCS third-generation VIC 1385

UCS second-generation VIC 1285

UCS second-generation VIC 1225

UCS storage servers

UCS C3206

UCS C3106

UCS M-Series modular servers

M4308

M2814

M1414

M142

Cisco UCS Mini

6324

Summary

Installing Cisco UCS Hardware

Installing UCS hardware components

Installing racks for UCS components

Installing UCS chassis and components

Installing blade servers

Installing and removing CPUs

Installing and removing RAM

Installing and removing internal hard disks

Installing mezzanine cards

Installing UCS chassis and rack rails

Installing blade servers into a chassis

Installing rack servers

Installing Fabric Interconnects

Cabling - Fabric Interconnects and Fabric Extenders

Fabric Extenders - Fabric Interconnect cabling topology

IOM - Fabric Interconnect physical cabling

Power capacity and power plug types

Non-redundant

N+1 redundant

Grid-redundant

Cisco SingleConnect technology

Summary

Setting Up a Lab Using Cisco UCS Emulator

Configuring Cisco UCS Emulator

System requirements

Hypervisor prerequisites

Installing UCSPE on VMware Workstation Player using the ZIP file

Installing UCSPE on VMware Workstation Player using the OVA file

Installing UCSPE on VMware Workstation

Installing UCSPE on VMware vSphere ESXi

Using Cisco UCSPE

Configuring network settings

Configuring hardware settings

Adding a new chassis with blade servers

Adding an empty chassis

Configuring and adding blade servers to the chassis

Configuring and adding rack-mount servers

Modifying server components

Launching UCS Manager using Platform Emulator

UCSPE limitations

Summary

Configuring Cisco UCS Using UCS Manager

Introducing Cisco UCSM

What's new with 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 Storage 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

Rack Server Discovery Policy

Rack Management Connection Policy

Power Policy

MAC Address Table Aging

Global Power Allocation Policy

Firmware Auto Sync Server Policy

Global Power Profiling Policy

Info Policy

DNS server

Time-zone management

SNMP

UCS Manager - command-line interface

Getting help with CLI commands

Accessing the history of CLI commands

Accessing component-level CLIs

Scope commands

Applying changes

An example configuration using CLI commands

Summary

Configuring LAN Connectivity

Understanding Fabric Interconnect switching modes

Ethernet end-host mode

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

Configuring SAN Connectivity

Learning about storage connectivity options

Overview of FC and iSCSI storage

Overview of SCSI

Overview of Fibre Channel

Overview of iSCSI

Overview of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

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 zoning

Learning about VSANs

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

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

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

Configuring the Host Firmware policy

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 a SAN boot policy

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

Licensing Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect

Starting up and shutting down of Fabric Interconnects

Controlling blade server power

Status and locator LEDs

Configuring logging

Configuring the Cisco Call Home feature

Organizational structure in UCS Manager

Organizational inheritance

RBAC

Active Directory integration

Predefined roles

About UCS locales

Permissions in multitenancy

Summary

Virtual Networking in Cisco UCS

Learning about VN-Link

Using the NX-OS

Changes in the data center

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

VSUM architecture

VSUM and 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

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

Cisco UCS Failure Scenarios Testing

Port channel uplink failure and recovery on Fabric Interconnects

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/FEX Discovery Policy configuration error

Fabric Interconnect device failure and recovery

Common error messages with Fabric Interconnects

UCS chassis failure, reporting, and recovery

Common failure messages for the UCS chassis

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

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 Suite

Connecting your UCS Manager using PowerTool Suite

Summary

Automation and Orchestration of Cisco UCS

Multiple UCS domain management

UCS Central architecture

Why UCS Central?

UCS domain registration with UCS Central

Performance monitoring and capacity planning

UCS Performance Manager architecture

Powering infrastructure with a cloud solution

UCS Director overview

UCS Director solutions

UCS Director

UCS Director Baremetal Agent

Summary