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Cisco UCS Cookbook

You're reading from Cisco UCS Cookbook Over 40 practical recipes to get your hands dirty with the powerful Cisco UCS and overcome various challenges

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785888984

Length 364 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Cisco UCS

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Victor Wu

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Cisco UCS Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Cisco UCS to SAN Connectivity

2. Cisco UCS to LAN Connectivity FREE CHAPTER

3. Installing an Operating System on Cisco UCS

4. Data Migration to Cisco UCS

5. System Integration on Cisco UCS

6. Cisco UCS Site Planning

7. Cisco UCS Backup Solutions

Index

Installing and configuring VMware vSphere Distributed Switch on Cisco UCS

In this recipe, we will learn how to create vSphere's Distributed Switch on Cisco UCS.

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 configured into two ports on each Cisco UCS 6428UP as Ethernet uplink ports connected to the upstream Ethernet LAN Switch by Fibre Channel cables. The UCS service profile (defined four vNIC1/2/3/4) has associated into 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 set up vDS on VMware vSphere Server.

We assume that the we have created a service profile ESXi5.5_Service_Profile on Cisco UCS Manager, the details are in the following table:

vNIC #	vNIC Name	Fabric ID	Enable Failover
vNIC1	vNIC_FIA_P17	A	Disable
vNIC2	vNIC_FIA_P18	A	Disable
vNIC3	vNIC_FIB_P17	B	Disable
vNIC4	vNIC_FIB_P18 ...

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Authors (1)

Victor Wu

Victor Wu

Victor Wu has over 15 years of system infrastructure experience. Currently, he works as a senior solutions architect at BoardWare Information System Limited in Macau. He is the only qualified person in Macau with a certificate in VMware VCIX-DCV, and was awarded the vExpert certification from 2014 to 2022, Cisco Champion from 2017 to 2022, Veeam Vanguard from 2019 to 2022, and Nutanix Technology Champion in 2021. His professional qualifications include VCIX-DCV 2022, VMware Certified Master Specialist – HCI 2022, Implementation Engineer – VxRail Appliance, Systems Administrator – VxRail Appliance, Nutanix Certified Professional 5, NetApp HCI Implementation Engineer, and Knowledge Sharing Author from 2018 to 2021. He is the author of Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions, published by Packt Publishing in June 2021.

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