Victor Wu - Cisco UCS Cookbook

Cisco UCS Cookbook

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Cisco UCS Cookbook

Cisco UCS Cookbook

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Credits

Author

Victor Wu

Reviewer

Michael Ciulei

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Content Development Editor

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About the Author

Victor Wu has over 10 years of IT experience. Currently, he works as a Solution Architect at BoardWare Information System Limited in Macau. It is one of the most reputable and leading companies in Macau that provides products and services along with systems integration. He is responsible for storage implementation, architecture, upgrades, and migration (such as EMC Clariion/VNX, HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200/7400, HP P-Series and IBM DS-Series, and so on). He is also responsible for virtualization solutions (such as VMware vSphere/View, Microsoft Hyper-V, Novell PlateSpin, Double-Take, and Citrix XenServer/App/Desktop).

He has lots of experience with virtualization solutions. This includes VMware vSphere/View, Microsoft Hyper-V, Novell PlateSpin, Double-Take, Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, and Cisco UCS deployment. He is interested in some deployments of virtualization solutions and troubleshooting, such as VMware version upgrades, storage data migration, and so on.

He is the only qualified person in Macau with a certificate in VMware VCAP5-DCD and VCAP5-DCA, and he was awarded vExpert in 2014/2015/2016.

His professional qualifications include EMCIE, EMCPE, EMCTAe, vExpert 2014/2015/2016, VCP6-DCV, VCP6-CMA, VCP6-NV, VCP6-DTM, VCAP5-DCD, VCAP4/5-DCA, VCP5-DT, VCP-Cloud, VCP-NT, VCP3/4/5, CDCUCSS, CDCUCDS, CCA, MCITP, and MCP.

He was the author of Mastering VMware vSphere Storage , published by Packt Publishing in July 2015.

You can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-wu-95a07022.

About the Reviewer

Michael Ciulei has more than 15 years of experience in the IT field. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and has obtained several certifications including CCIE Collaboration, NetApp Certified Clustered Data ONTAP Administrator, and CCNA Wireless. He has always been fascinated by virtualization technologies and the Cisco UCS platform. He has been actively involved in a significant number of complex projects and has successfully completed several UCS deployments with VMware ESXi. Michael has always been aware of the importance of staying abreast of the latest technologies and claims that pro-active learning and real-word deployments are what helped him to be on top of his game. When not spending time in his lab, Michael enjoys spending time with family and friends.

I am thankful to my friend and mentor Florin Ramboiu, who has always encouraged me to pursue my dreams and has played an important role in my professional development. I am also thankful to my wife, Cristina, who has an impressive tolerance for my Cisco endeavours.

I would also like to thank my colleagues, who are a wealth of information and a constant source of fun and have always supported me.

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Preface

This book is for competent system, network, or storage administrators who are working with Cisco UCS, but they now want to learn innovative ways to compute or deploy UCS to leverage its full potential.

What this book covers

, Cisco UCS to SAN Connectivity , is about how to upgrade firmware on Fibre SAN Switch and how to set up the interconnection of Cisco UCS to Brocade FC Switch and Cisco UCS to Cisco FC Switch.

, Cisco UCS to LAN Connectivity , describes how to configure the Ethernet uplink, LAN pin groups and Ethernet port channel on UCS Fabric Interconnect, and set up NIC Teaming on Microsoft Windows and VMware vSphere ESXi.

, Installing an Operating System on Cisco UCS , covers the system platform installation on Cisco UCS. It includes Microsoft Windows and VMware vSphere Server in local boot and SAN boot.

, Data Migration to Cisco UCS , describes how to migrate the physical machine and virtual machine from HP Server to Cisco UCS.

, System Integration on Cisco UCS , describes how to set up system integration on Cisco UCS, for example, UCS Management Pack in VMware vRealize Operation Manager, and UCS Central best practices.

, Cisco UCS Site Planning , describes how to use Cisco UCS compatibility Support Matrix and other vendor interoperability tools, such as EMC E-lab, HP Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK), VMware Compatibility Guide, and IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC).

, Cisco UCS Backup Solutions , describes how to backup and restore Cisco UCS configurations, the backup solutions on Cisco UCS in detail, for example, VMware Data Protection, HP 3PAR array's virtual copy/remote copy, and EMC VNX array's SnapClone and MirrorView.

What you need for this book

This book requires the following software: Cisco UCS Manager 2.2, Cisco UCS Central 1.4, VMware vSphere 5.5, VMware vCenter Server 5.5, vCenter Operation Manager 6.0, Microsoft Windows 2008/2012, HP 3PAR Management Console 4.6, and EMC Unisphere 1.3.

Who this book is 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.