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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

VEM data plane


There is a 1:1 mapping between hypervisor and VEM. VEM replaces the virtual switch by performing the following functions:

  • Advanced networking and security
  • Switching between directly attached VMs
  • Uplinking through physical NICs

You can install only one version of VEM on an ESXi host at any given point in time. Please have a look at the following diagram for more details:

VEM functions

The following are the various functions of VEM:

  • Advanced networking and security
  • Switching between directly attached VMs
  • Uplink to the rest of the network

Unlike conventional Nexus switches, each line card has its own media access control (MAC) table that goes through the same process as conventional switches:

  • Ingress: Traffic that comes inbound towards the interfaces of the N1KV switch
  • L2 lookup: A process that handles the packets after the parser engine has parsed the initial packet delivery
  • Egress: Traffic goes out of the interfaces of the N1KV switch
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