Learning Cisco's UCS
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UCS
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Check out my all new course, covering Cisco's UCS!
This course takes you soup-to-nuts through the UCS system. We start off answering questions surrounding "Why UCS?," and then move swiftly through the components that comprise a Cisco UCS system. Following this, we begin discussing how UCS systems are built, and how they function. As an instructor, I firmly believe in the "see then do" process, especially when it comes to technology! So my method has always been to talk about the theory surrounding a topic, and then to show you it on a live system, and thats exactly what I do with this course.
We will build out the UCS system in the exact sequence that most engineers typically deploy it. We will connect it to the LAN and SAN networks, and configure the pools and policies that make up the identities of our service profiles (the true magic behind UCS!). We will practice things like 'boot from SAN' and show you how to troubleshoot and verify everything as we go!
This course takes you soup-to-nuts through the UCS system. We start off answering questions surrounding "Why UCS?," and then move swiftly through the components that comprise a Cisco UCS system. Following this, we begin discussing how UCS systems are built, and how they function. As an instructor, I firmly believe in the "see then do" process, especially when it comes to technology! So my method has always been to talk about the theory surrounding a topic, and then to show you it on a live system, and thats exactly what I do with this course.
We will build out the UCS system in the exact sequence that most engineers typically deploy it. We will connect it to the LAN and SAN networks, and configure the pools and policies that make up the identities of our service profiles (the true magic behind UCS!). We will practice things like 'boot from SAN' and show you how to troubleshoot and verify everything as we go!
Course Contents:
Section 1: Introduction to UCS
1 Introduction
2 Why Cisco UCS?
3 Introducing the UCS Emulator!
4 UCS Chassis and Blades Overview
5 UCS Fabric Interconnect Overview
6 UCS IOM Overview
7 UCS Blade I/O Adapter Overview
8 UCS Manager Overview
9 BackPlane Ethernet - 10GBASE-KR Overview
Section 2: UCS Connectivity
10 Bootstrapping a Brand New UCS
11 Demo- Bootstrapping the UCS
12 IOM Pinning Overview
13 Demo - Connecting a UCS Chassis
14 Fabric Interconnect Modes
15 How UCS Uplinks Work
16 Demo - Configuring UCS Uplinks
17 Demo - Configuring UCS Ethernet Port-Channels
18 Dynamic Pinning Overview
19 Static Pinning Overview
20 Disjoint Layer-2 Overview
21 Demo - Configuring Disjoint Layer-2
22 Unified Ports within Cisco UCS Systems
23 Demo - Configuring Unified Ports
24 UCS Storage Networking Theory
25 Demo - UCS SAN Uplink Configurations
26 Demo - UCS Fibre Channel Port-Channels
27 Demo - Fibre Channel Uplink Trunking
28 Demo - UCS FCoE Uplink Configuration
Section 3: Configuring Pools and Policies
29 Initial vs Updating Templates
30 UCS Server Pools and Policies
31 UCS UUID Pools
32 External MGMT IP Pools
33 MAC Address Pools
34 UCS World Wide Name Pools
35 UCS WWxN Pools
36 Configuring BIOS Policies
37 Configuring Boot Policies
38 Local Disk Configuration Policies
39 Configuring Maintenance Policies
40 Configuring Scrub Policies
41 Power Control Policies
42 Network Interface Policies
43 QoS System Classes
44 QoS Policies
45 vNIC Templates
46 Network Control Policies
47 LAN Connectivity Policies
48 vHBA Templates and SAN Connectivity Policies
Section 4: Service Profiles
49 Service Profile Templates
50 Service Profile - Boot From SAN
51 Service Profile - Cloning and Booting from Local Disk
52 Service Profile - Boot From iSCSI (pools and policies)
53 Service Profile - FlexFlash SD Boot Policies
Section 5: UCS MGMT
54 UCS Organizations
55 UCS Locales and Local Authentication
Section 1: Introduction to UCS
1 Introduction
2 Why Cisco UCS?
3 Introducing the UCS Emulator!
4 UCS Chassis and Blades Overview
5 UCS Fabric Interconnect Overview
6 UCS IOM Overview
7 UCS Blade I/O Adapter Overview
8 UCS Manager Overview
9 BackPlane Ethernet - 10GBASE-KR Overview
Section 2: UCS Connectivity
10 Bootstrapping a Brand New UCS
11 Demo- Bootstrapping the UCS
12 IOM Pinning Overview
13 Demo - Connecting a UCS Chassis
14 Fabric Interconnect Modes
15 How UCS Uplinks Work
16 Demo - Configuring UCS Uplinks
17 Demo - Configuring UCS Ethernet Port-Channels
18 Dynamic Pinning Overview
19 Static Pinning Overview
20 Disjoint Layer-2 Overview
21 Demo - Configuring Disjoint Layer-2
22 Unified Ports within Cisco UCS Systems
23 Demo - Configuring Unified Ports
24 UCS Storage Networking Theory
25 Demo - UCS SAN Uplink Configurations
26 Demo - UCS Fibre Channel Port-Channels
27 Demo - Fibre Channel Uplink Trunking
28 Demo - UCS FCoE Uplink Configuration
Section 3: Configuring Pools and Policies
29 Initial vs Updating Templates
30 UCS Server Pools and Policies
31 UCS UUID Pools
32 External MGMT IP Pools
33 MAC Address Pools
34 UCS World Wide Name Pools
35 UCS WWxN Pools
36 Configuring BIOS Policies
37 Configuring Boot Policies
38 Local Disk Configuration Policies
39 Configuring Maintenance Policies
40 Configuring Scrub Policies
41 Power Control Policies
42 Network Interface Policies
43 QoS System Classes
44 QoS Policies
45 vNIC Templates
46 Network Control Policies
47 LAN Connectivity Policies
48 vHBA Templates and SAN Connectivity Policies
Section 4: Service Profiles
49 Service Profile Templates
50 Service Profile - Boot From SAN
51 Service Profile - Cloning and Booting from Local Disk
52 Service Profile - Boot From iSCSI (pools and policies)
53 Service Profile - FlexFlash SD Boot Policies
Section 5: UCS MGMT
54 UCS Organizations
55 UCS Locales and Local Authentication