Overview
Course Instructor: Desiree Lindfield
Course Outline
01. Introduction to managing Cisco UCS hardware
- Installation of B-Series and C-Series Hardware
- Installing UCS modules
- Managing UCS firmware
- Using the UCS Hardware Capability Catalog
02. Managing UCS through the management interfaces
- Navigating within UCS Manager
- Using the CLI with Fabric Interconnects
- Provisioning Cisco UCS Compute Resources
03. Administering RBAC for granular permissions
- Understanding RBAC
- Configuring roles
- Identifying effective rights of RBAC
- Using LDAP with UCS administration
- Configuring UCS role mapping
04. Maintaining the UCS
- Configuring the UCS manager database for backup
- Disaster preparedness options for UCS
- Running backup jobs
- Restoring to Cisco UCS
- Configuring logging on the UCS platform
- Validating the UCS finite state machine
- Using Smart Call Home with UCS
- Configuring SPAN
- Understanding UCS failures
- Using the Cisco UCS Utility OS
- Achieving fabric high availability
- Planning HA clustering options
- Planning addressing in the cluster
05. UCS architecture options
- Understanding bandwidth oversubscription
- Introduction IOM architecture
- Introduction to the VIC 1280 and 1240
- Understanding end-host mode vs switching mode
- Virtual networking with the UCS platform
06. Configuring UCS options
- Configuring port channels with Gen 2 hardware
- Managing chassis discovery
- Configuring and monitoring UCS port personalities
- Configuring VLANs on UCS
- Configuring uplink pinning
- Creating appliance ports and FCoE ports
07. Understand UCS options for interfacing with Fibre Channel
- Introduction to Fibre Channel
- Understanding NPV mode
- Configuring FC pinning
- Configuring FC Port Channels
- Working with VSANs on UCS
- Using FCoE on UCS
- Configuring a VSAN trunk
- Configuring VSAN zoning
08. Using UCS pools
- Deploying server pools
- Using Server Pool Autoplacement
- Creating SAN pools
- Creating and associating service profiles
- Building service profile templates
Skills Learned
After completing this online training course, students will be able to:
- Describe the hardware options available in Cisco UCS
- Manage the UCS platform for the data center
- Configure UCS features for server virtualization
- Describe the architecture of the UCS platform
- Integrate storage with Cisco UCS