Audience - Network Designer
- Server Administrator
- Network Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- Consulting Systems Engineer
- Technical Solutions Architect
- Cisco Integrators and Partners
- Network Administrator
- Storage Administrator
- Network Manager
Course Objectives Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives: - Implement Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers in standalone mode. Boot from the local hard drive and mount the Fibre Channel SAN LUN for shared storage
- Install Cisco R-Series rack enclosures in the data center
- Install components in the Cisco UCS C-Series rack server prior to rack mounting
- Install Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers in a Cisco R-Series rack
- Use the Cisco UCS Host Upgrade Utility to upgrade or downgrade C-Series firmware to the correct version
- Provision SNMP and syslog, and use C-Series monitoring tools
- Use the Cisco Integrated Management Controller to provision LAN and SAN connectivity for the C-Series server
- Use the LSI MegaRAID web user interface to provision local hard drives into a RAID 5 array
- Install VMware ESXi in the C-Series server local hard drives
- Implement system management, maintenance, and high-availability services for Cisco UCS B-Series
- Implement local and remote authentication services to restrict privileges and delegate management authority in Cisco UCS Manager
- List the processes for managing the firmware repository and upgrade or downgrade Cisco UCS firmware components using Cisco UCS Manager
- Implement backup and restore capabilities in Cisco UCS Manager
- Implement syslog, Smart Call Home, and SPAN
- Maintain Cisco UCS in a high-availability configuration
- Implement generation 1 and generation 2 connectivity
- Differentiate between physical connections on the IOM and the redundant connections for management and data plane over the I/O MUX and midplane
- Install and power up Cisco UCS B-Series hardware
- Implement LAN connectivity for Cisco UCS B-Series hardware
- Implement SAN connectivity for Cisco UCS B-Series hardware
- Provision servers by leveraging reusable pools, policies, and templates that allow for rapid provisioning and consistency of policy
- Perform initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers
- Provision VLANs and fabric interconnect uplinks for server connectivity to the Layer 3 data center cloud
- Provision VSANs and fabric interconnect Fibre Channel uplinks for server connectivity to the data center storage cloud
- Provision resource pools for servers, UUIDs, MAC addresses, WWNN, WWPN, and iSCSI
- Configure reusable server policies in Cisco UCS Manager
- Provision service profiles with initial and updating templates
- Implement virtualization features unique to Cisco UCS that improve performance and manageability
- Describe Cisco VM-FEX and Cisco VM-FEX universal passthrough technologies
- Provision Cisco VM-FEX in Cisco UCS Manager and the VMware vCenter Server
- Provision Cisco VM-FEX universal passthrough in Cisco UCS Manager and the VMware vCenter Server
Prerequisites - Cisco Certified Network Associate Data Center (CCNA Data Center) or equivalent knowledge and experience
- Server operating systems, hypervisor and virtualization familiarity
- Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFI)
Following Courses - Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID)
- Implementing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCII)
- Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCIT)
- Implementing Cisco Data Center Virtualization and Automation (DCVAI)
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