Chapter 1: Setting up UCSPE ( Cisco UCS Platform Emulator)
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 2: The hardware chapter
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 3: Northbound Networking and SAN
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 4: Policies
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 5: Service Profiles and Templates
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
2. Creating a Service Profile Template
3. Creating a Service Profile from a template
4. Assigning templates
Chapter 6: UCS Security
Chapter Goal: to Secure our UCS environment
No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics
1. AAA
2. Hardening the web interface
3. Hardening SSH
Chapter 7: Troubleshooting
Chapter Goal: to Secure our UCS environment
No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics
1. Error messages
2. SNMP
3. Call-home