Introducing Cisco Unified Computing System: Learn Cisco UCS with Cisco UCSPE

Chapter Goal: To set up UCSPE

No of pages    20

Sub -Topics

1.      Downloading UCSPE

2.      Importing UCSPE into VMWare

3.      Starting UCSPE

4.      Real-world UCS setup

Chapter Goal: An explanation of the different hardware that makes up a UCS (Cisco Unified Computing System)

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics  

1.      The Fabric Interconnect

2.      Chassis and IOMs

3.      FEX

4.       Blade servers

5.       Rackmount servers

Chapter Goal: To understand the UCS in relation to the rest of the network

No of pages: 10

Sub - Topics  

1. Physical connectivity and port-channels

2.      VLANs

Chapter Goal: To create the policies we need for chapter 4

No of pages : 20

Sub - Topics: 

1.      Policies

2.      Storage Policies

3.      Dynamic vNIC connection policies

3. vNIC/vHBA Placementpolicies

4. vMedia policies

5. Server boot policies

6. Maintenance Policies

7. Server Pool policies

8. Operation policies

Chapter Goal: To use the policies we have to create service profiles and assign them to our servers

No of pages: 30

Sub - Topics:

1. Creating an Organization

3. Creating a Service Profile from a template

4. Assigning templates

Chapter Goal: to Secure our UCS environment

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics  

1.      AAA

2.      Hardening the web interface

3.      Hardening SSH

Chapter Goal: to Secure our UCS environment

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics  

1.      Error messages

2.      SNMP

3.      Call-home