VMware vSphere 5.5 local boot installation and configuration
In this recipe, we will learn how to install and configure VMware vSphere 5.5 local boot.
Getting ready
Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2208XP installed, each UCS IOM is connected to a Cisco UCS 6428UP. There is a UCS B200 M4 with a VIC 1340 installed into this chassis and configure four ports on each Cisco UCS 6428UP as an Ethernet uplink port and an FC uplink port, which is connected to SAN Switches and LAN Switches by Fibre Channel cables. Due to each port being a unified port, you can configure it for different roles; for chassis uplink, it is connected by Twinax copper (SFP-H10GB-CU1M); for SAN uplink, it is connected by 8 GB SFP (DS-SFP-FC8G-SW); for Ethernet uplink, it is connected by a 10 GB SFP (SFP-10G-SR) and prepare a UCS service profile. It includes two vNICs, two vHBAs, and a local drive with a mirror mode (RAID 1). The detail is listed in the following service profile screenshot:
