Cisco UCS Cookbook: Over 40 practical recipes to get your hands dirty with the powerful Cisco UCS and overcome various challenges

Victor Wu

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Cisco UCS Cookbook

Chapter 2. Cisco UCS to LAN Connectivity

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Configuring an Ethernet uplink on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
Configuring an Ethernet Port Channels uplink on UCS Fabric Interconnect
Installing and configuring the NIC Teaming on Microsoft Windows
Configuring the load-balancing and failover on VMware vSphere
Configuring LAN pin groups on UCS Fabric Interconnect
Installing and configuring VMware vSphere Distributed Switch on Cisco UCS

Configuring the load-balancing and failover on VMware vSphere

In this recipe, we will learn how to configure load-balancing and failover on VMware vSphere Server.

Getting ready

Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2208XP installed, each UCS IOM connected to a Cisco UCS 6428UP and configure two ports on each Cisco UCS 6428UP as an Ethernet uplink port that is connected to an upstream Ethernet LAN Switch by Fibre Channel cables. The UCS service profile (defined four vNIC1/2/3/4) is associated to a UCS Server and can boot up the OS successfully. The details are listed in the following diagram:

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will learn how to set up VMware Standard Switch (VSS) and configure the failover policy on a VMware vSphere Server.

We assume that we have created one UCS service profile as ESXi5.5_Service_Profile on Cisco UCS Manager, the following table lists the details of each virtual network adapter on the service profile:

vNIC #	vNIC Name	Fabric ID	Enable Failover...

Configuring LAN pin groups on UCS Fabric Interconnect

In this recipe, we will learn how to create a LAN pin group on UCS Fabric Interconnect.

Getting ready

Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2208XP installed; each UCS IOM is connected to a Cisco UCS 6428UP. Configure four ports on each Cisco UCS 6428UP as an Ethernet uplink port (port 17/18), which is connected to the Cisco LAN Switch by Fibre Channel cables. The UCS service profile (defined by two vNIC1/2) is associated to the UCS Server and can boot up the OS successfully. The details are listed in the following diagram:

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will learn how to create a static LAN pin group by an FI-A uplink and FI-B uplink on Fabric Interconnect.

We assume that the two defined vNICs can be added into the service profile detail, as shown in the following table:

Service profile Name	vNIC #	vNIC Name	Fabric ID	Enable Failover
ESXi5.5_Service_Profile	vNIC1	vNIC_FIA_P17	A	Disable
ESXi5.5_Service_Profile	vNIC2	vNIC_FIB_P17	B...

Key benefits

Master the skills of minimizing cost, enabling your business to work faster by reducing cycle times for reporting and improving overall revenue
Work through hands-on recipes for efficient deployment approaches, see computing techniques, and explore new operational models with UCS
Render a better work-flow management, ensure effective monitoring, and learn new deployment paradigms for the operational infrastructure with the help of this book

Description

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a data center server platform that is used for computing, deploying, and storing resources in data center environments. This cookbook aims to teach you about various tasks you can implement to improve your existing method of configuring and deploying UCS. You will start by learning how to upgrade your firmware on Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel Switch and will move on to enhance your knowledge of LAN connectivity. We will then discuss how to configure Windows 2008 and 2012 local boot in Cisco UCS. Next, you will learn how to install the operating system on Cisco UCS and use Cisco UCS Power Calculator to calculate the UCS consumption. Finally, we’ll take a look at backup solutions. By the end of the book, you will know several ways to build and compute in data center environment using Cisco UCS.

Who is this book for?

This book is for competent system/network or storage administrators who are working with Cisco UCS, but now want to learn new ways to compute UCS.

What you will learn

Familiarize yourself with information on the latest information on memory management practices, virtualization architectures, and the specific technical advantages of UCS
Get a concrete understanding of integrating processes and techniques to ensure effective convergence of LAN/SAN
Get to know the best practices of Cisco UCS, EMC Storage, and VMware vSphere
Master migrating data from other band servers or Blade to Cisco UCS
Comprehend how to replicate and back up UCS to remote sites UCS
Assimilate innovative techniques to deploy UCS to leverage its full potential
Gather information on installing and configuring automatic and manual Pinning
Discover ways to integrate a system in Cisco UCS

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Sam Leong Apr 04, 2016

This cookbook is a good reference book about Cisco UCS, I like the section of migrating data from other band servers to Cisco UCS.

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CW Dec 28, 2017

This book has saved me a few times. Easy to read information. With the new firmware upgrades changing the UCSM layout the pictures are outdated but the book still helps.

JC Jan 28, 2018

This book is fairly dated and contains cursory “cookbooks” for common UCS setups. Not a whole lot of in-depth discussions on architecture.

Cisco UCS Cookbook: Over 40 practical recipes to get your hands dirty with the powerful Cisco UCS and overcome various challenges

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Cisco UCS Cookbook

Chapter 2. Cisco UCS to LAN Connectivity

Introduction

Configuring an Ethernet uplink on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect

Getting ready

How to do it…

Note

Configuring an Ethernet Port Channels uplink on UCS Fabric Interconnect

Getting ready

How to do it…

Installing and configuring the NIC Teaming on Microsoft Windows

Getting ready

How to do it…

Configuring the load-balancing and failover on VMware vSphere

Getting ready

How to do it…

Configuring LAN pin groups on UCS Fabric Interconnect

Getting ready

How to do it…

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