Cisco UCS Cookbook

Over 40 practical recipes to get your hands dirty with the powerful Cisco UCS and overcome various challenges

About This Book

• Master the skills of minimizing cost, enabling your business to work faster by reducing cycle times for reporting and improving overall revenue
• Work through hands-on recipes for efficient deployment approaches, see computing techniques, and explore new operational models with UCS
• Render a better work-flow management, ensure effective monitoring, and learn new deployment paradigms for the operational infrastructure with the help of this book

Who This Book Is For

This book is for competent system/network or storage administrators who are working with Cisco UCS, but now want to learn new ways to compute UCS.

What You Will Learn

• Familiarize yourself with information on the latest information on memory management practices, virtualization architectures, and the specific technical advantages of UCS
• Get a concrete understanding of integrating processes and techniques to ensure effective convergence of LAN/SAN
• Get to know the best practices of Cisco UCS, EMC Storage, and VMware vSphere
• Master migrating data from other band servers or Blade to Cisco UCS
• Comprehend how to replicate and back up UCS to remote sites UCS
• Assimilate innovative techniques to deploy UCS to leverage its full potential
• Gather information on installing and configuring automatic and manual Pinning
• Discover ways to integrate a system in Cisco UCS

In Detail

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a data center server platform that is used for computing, deploying, and storing resources in data center environments.

This cookbook aims to teach you about various tasks you can implement to improve your existing method of configuring and deploying UCS. You will start by learning how to upgrade your firmware on Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel Switch and will move on to enhance your knowledge of LAN connectivity. We will then discuss how to configure Windows 2008 and 2012 local boot in Cisco UCS. Next, you will learn how to install the operating system on Cisco UCS and use Cisco UCS Power Calculator to calculate the UCS consumption. Finally, we'll take a look at backup solutions.

By the end of the book, you will know several ways to build and compute in data center environment using Cisco UCS.

Style and approach

This guide explains every task in a conversational and easy-to-follow style. You can open this book up to the task you want to learn and will be able to perform that task by the end of the recipe.

超過40個實用的食譜，讓您深入了解強大的Cisco UCS並克服各種挑戰。

關於本書
- 掌握降低成本的技巧，使您的業務能夠更快地運作，減少報告週期時間並提高整體收入。
- 通過實踐食譜來進行高效的部署方法，了解計算技術，並探索UCS的新操作模型。
- 通過本書的幫助，實現更好的工作流管理，確保有效的監控，並學習操作基礎設施的新部署範例。

本書適合對Cisco UCS有經驗的系統/網絡或存儲管理員，但現在想要學習新的UCS計算方法的讀者。

您將學到什麼
- 熟悉最新的內存管理實踐、虛擬化架構以及UCS的特定技術優勢的信息。
- 具體了解整合流程和技術，以確保LAN/SAN的有效匯聚。
- 了解Cisco UCS、EMC存儲和VMware vSphere的最佳實踐。
- 掌握從其他品牌服務器或刀片遷移數據到Cisco UCS的方法。
- 理解如何複製和備份UCS到遠程站點。
- 吸收創新技術，以部署UCS並充分利用其潛力。
- 獲取有關安裝和配置自動和手動Pinning的信息。
- 發現將系統集成到Cisco UCS的方法。

詳細內容
Cisco Unified Computing System（UCS）是一個用於在數據中心環境中計算、部署和存儲資源的數據中心服務器平台。

本食譜將教您如何實施各種任務，以改進您現有的UCS配置和部署方法。您將首先學習如何升級Brocade和Cisco光纖通道交換機的固件，然後提高您對LAN連接性的了解。接下來，我們將討論如何在Cisco UCS上配置Windows 2008和2012本地引導。然後，您將學習如何在Cisco UCS上安裝操作系統，並使用Cisco UCS Power Calculator計算UCS的能耗。最後，我們將介紹備份解決方案。

通過閱讀本書，您將了解使用Cisco UCS在數據中心環境中構建和計算的多種方法。

風格和方法
本指南以對話式和易於理解的方式解釋每個任務。您可以打開本書找到您想要學習的任務，並在食譜結束時完成該任務。