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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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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

Cisco UCS Mini

Cisco brings the power of UCS in a smaller form factor for smaller business, remote, and branch offices with the UCS Mini solution, a combination of blade and rack servers with unified management provided by Cisco UCS Manager. UCS Mini is compact version with  the specialized 6324 Fabric Interconnect model embedded into the Cisco UCS blade chassis for a smaller server footprint. It provides servers, storage, network, and management capabilities similar to classic UCS. The 6324 Fabric Interconnect combines the Fabric Extender and Fabric Interconnect functions into one plugin module to provide direct connections to upstream switches. A pair of 6324 Fabric Interconnects will be directly inserted into the chassis, called the primary chassis, and provide internal connectivity to UCS blades. A Fabric Extender is not required for the primary chassis. The primary chassis can be connected to another chassis, called the secondary chassis, through a pair of 2208XP or 2204XP Fabric Extenders.

Cisco UCS Mini supports a wide variety of UCS B-Series servers, such as B200 M3, 200 M4, B420 M3, and B420 M4. These blades can be inserted into mixed form factors. UCS Mini also supports connectivity to UCS C-Series servers C220 M3, C220 M4, C240 M3 and C240M4. A maximum of seven C-Series servers can be connected to a single chassis. It can support a maximum of 20 servers with a combination of two chassis with eight half-width blades per chassis and four C-Series servers.

Here is an overview of Cisco UCS Mini:

6324

Cisco 6324 is embedded into the Cisco UCS 5108 blade server chassis. The 6324 Fabric Interconnect integrates the functions of a Fabric Interconnect and Fabric Extender and provides LAN, SAN, and management connectivity to blade servers and rack servers with embedded UCS Manager. 1G/10G SFP+ ports will be used for external network and SAN connectivity, while 40 Gig QSPF can only be used for connecting another chassis, rack server, and storage. One or two Cisco UCS 6324 FIs can be installed in UCS Mini.

The following are the features of the 6324:

  • A maximum of 20 blade/rack servers per UCS domain
  • Four 1 Gig/10 Gig SFP+ unified ports
  • One 40 Gig QSFP
  • Fabric throughput of 500 Gbps
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