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Cisco UCS Cookbook
Cisco UCS Cookbook

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

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

Introduction

In this chapter, you will learn how to accomplish tasks related to Cisco UCS and LAN connectivity; how to configure the Ethernet uplink, LAN pin groups, and Ethernet Port Channels on UCS Fabric Interconnect; how to install and configure the NIC Teaming on Microsoft Windows Server; and set up the load-balancing and failover on the VMware vSphere Server. You will also learn how to install and configure the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (DvSwitch) on Cisco UCS Server.

Configuring an Ethernet uplink on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect

In this recipe, we will learn how to configure the Ethernet uplink on Cisco Fabric Interconnect.

Getting ready

Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2208XP installed, each UCS IOM is connected to one Cisco UCS 6428UP, and configure two ports on each Cisco UCS 6428UP as the Ethernet uplink port (port 17/18), which is connected to a Cisco LAN Switch by Fibre Channel cables. The details are shown in the following diagram:

Getting ready

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will learn how to configure an individual Ethernet uplink on Fabric Interconnect (FI).

The following steps configure the Ethernet uplink:

  1. Assume that ports 1 to 24 are the Ethernet ports on each Fabric Interconnect.
  2. Log in to UCS Manager and click on the Equipment tab in the navigation pane. In the Equipment tab, click on Fabric Interconnects, as shown:
    How to do it…
  3. Verify that the Ethernet Mode of FI is End Host, as shown in the following screenshot:
    How to do it…

    Note

    You need to change the...

Configuring an Ethernet Port Channels uplink on UCS Fabric Interconnect

In this recipe, we will learn how to configure the Ethernet port channel on Cisco FI.

Getting ready

Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2208 XP installed and each UCS IOM is connected to a Cisco UCS 6428 UP. Configure four ports on each Cisco UCS 6428 UP, as Ethernet uplink ports (port 17/18/19/20), which are connected to Cisco LAN Switch by Fibre Channel cables. The details are listed in the following diagram:

Getting ready

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will learn how to configure the Ethernet Port Channel on FI.

The following are the steps to configure the Ethernet uplink:

  1. Assume that ports 1 to 24 are the Ethernet ports on each Fabric Interconnect.
  2. Open an Internet Browser, such as IE or Firefox and enter the FI Cluster address and log in to the UCS Manager. Click on the Equipment tab in the navigation pane.
  3. In the Equipment tab, click on a Fabric Interconnects, as shown in the following screenshot:
    How to do it…
  4. Verify that...

Installing and configuring the NIC Teaming on Microsoft Windows

In this recipe, we will learn how to install and configure a Cisco UCS VIC (Virtual Interface Card) Driver and NIC Teaming on Microsoft Windows Server.

Getting ready

Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2208XP installed, each UCS IOM is 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 two vNIC1/2) is associated to the UCS Server and can boot up the OS successfully. The detail is listed in the following diagram:

Getting ready

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will learn how to download Cisco VIC driver and NIC Teaming driver on the Cisco support website, then install and configure a VIC driver and NIC Teaming driver on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.

Download the Cisco VIC driver with the following steps

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:

Getting ready

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:

Getting ready

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

vNIC2

vNIC_FIB_P17

B...

Introduction


In this chapter, you will learn how to accomplish tasks related to Cisco UCS and LAN connectivity; how to configure the Ethernet uplink, LAN pin groups, and Ethernet Port Channels on UCS Fabric Interconnect; how to install and configure the NIC Teaming on Microsoft Windows Server; and set up the load-balancing and failover on the VMware vSphere Server. You will also learn how to install and configure the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (DvSwitch) on Cisco UCS Server.

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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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Table of Contents

8 Chapters
1. Cisco UCS to SAN Connectivity Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Cisco UCS to LAN Connectivity Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Installing an Operating System on Cisco UCS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Data Migration to Cisco UCS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. System Integration on Cisco UCS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Cisco UCS Site Planning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Cisco UCS Backup Solutions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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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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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.
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This book is fairly dated and contains cursory “cookbooks” for common UCS setups. Not a whole lot of in-depth discussions on architecture.
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