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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786464408
Length 482 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Prasenjit Sarkar Prasenjit Sarkar
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Anuj Modi Anuj Modi
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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 FC and iSCSI storage


Both FC and iSCSI are used to encapsulate SCSI protocol commands for storage. We will briefly discuss SCSI first.

Overview of SCSI

SCSI (pronounced as scuzzy) is an industry standard protocol for attaching various I/O peripherals such as printers, scanners, tape drives, and storage devices. The most common SCSI devices are disks and tape libraries.

SCSI has evolved from parallel, daisy-chained SCSI to serially attached SCSI (SAS). Older parallel SCSI specifications are defined as Ultra-1, Ultra-2, Ultra-3, Ultra-320, and Ultra-640, whereas the new SAS specifications are defined as SAS 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. These specifications differ in speed and other performance enhancements. SCSI hard disks are superior in terms of performance and reliability as compared with ATA (PATA and SATA) drives. SCSI drives are commonly used in enterprise-grade SANs because of their reliability and speed.

In the SAN world, SCSI is the core protocol to connect raw hard disk storage with...

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