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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

You're reading from Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions Deploy, manage, and automate your datacenter

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786464408

Length 482 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Cisco

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Networking

Authors (2):

Prasenjit Sarkar

Anuj Modi

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. What's New with Cisco UCS FREE CHAPTER

2. Installing Cisco UCS Hardware

3. Setting Up a Lab Using Cisco UCS Emulator

4. Configuring Cisco UCS Using UCS Manager

5. Configuring LAN Connectivity

6. Configuring SAN Connectivity

7. Creating Identity Resource Pools, Policies, and Templates

8. Creating and Managing Service Profiles

9. Managing UCS through Routine and Advanced Management

10. Virtual Networking in Cisco UCS

11. Configuring Backup, Restore, and High Availability

12. Cisco UCS Failure Scenarios Testing

13. Third-Party Application Integration

14. Automation and Orchestration of Cisco UCS

Configuring northbound connectivity to upstream switches

Cisco recommends using Nexus 5k/7k/9k switches for Fabric Interconnect northbound network connectivity because of the features such as virtual PortChannel (vPC). It is, however, possible to connect Fabric Interconnect to other Ethernet switches as well, including Cisco Catalyst series switches and even switches from Cisco competitors, as long as those switches use the industry standard protocols.

The majority of UCS field deployments are designed using Nexus 5k/7k switches. Therefore, we will explain the upstream configuration using Cisco Nexus 5k switches. However, with the introduction of the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco supports UCS connectivity with the latest spin/leaf architecture with Nexus 9k and provides tight integration with the Application Programming Interface Controller (APIC).

Configuring upstream switches

Northbound connectivity from Fabric Interconnect can be achieved through a standard uplink, a port...

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Authors (1)

Prasenjit Sarkar

Prasenjit Sarkar

Prasenjit Sarkar is a product manager at Oracle for their public cloud, with a focus on cloud strategy, Oracle Ravello, cloud-native applications, and the API platform. His primary focus is driving Oracle's cloud computing business with commercial and public sector customers, helping to shape and deliver a strategy to build broad use of Oracle's Infrastructure as a Service offerings, such as Compute, Storage, and Database as a Service. He is also responsible for developing public/private cloud integration strategies, customers' cloud computing architecture visions, future state architectures, and implementable architecture roadmaps in the context of the public, private, and hybrid cloud computing solutions that Oracle can offer. He has also authored six industry-leading books on virtualization, SDN, and physical compute, among others. He has six successful patents and six more patents pending at the US PTO. He has also authored numerous research articles.

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