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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

Tools

Cisco

Concepts

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

Overview of service profiles

A service profile is the principle feature of the UCS platform that enables stateless computing. Service profiles radically improve server provisioning and troubleshooting. Servers can be provisioned in software even before the delivery of physical hardware; in case of hardware failure, it can be replaced by associating the existing software service profile of the failed server without going through any painstaking firmware upgrade procedures.

UCS Manager abstracts a service profile from the configurations available under the following categories:

Identity and resource pools: As explained in Chapter 7, Creating Identity Resource Pools, Policies, and Templates, identity and resource pools provide silos for computing node-unique characteristics such as MAC addresses, WWNs, and UUIDs. These identities uniquely recognize systems on the network. UCS servers abstract these physical identities...

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Authors (1)

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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