Learning Cisco Unified Computing System - UCS

Name: Learning Cisco Unified Computing System - UCS
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Your guide to complete mastery over Cisco's UCS!

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Created byJason Lunde

Last updated 5/2017

English

What you'll learn

Identify common UCS components
Describe and configure service profiles
Describe and configure UCS pools
Describe and configure UCS policies
Connect UCS to the LAN and SAN networks
Design UCS solutions

Course content

6 sections • 55 lectures • 10h 40m total length

Introduction to the Course!9:46
The video where you meet me! We will also cover the course objectives, and talk about what you may hope to learn from this Cisco UCS ( Unified Computing Systems ) course.

Why Cisco UCS?15:28
In this short introduction we look at why we would want to use and learn Cisco's UCS solution.
Introducing the UCS Emulator!11:19
A lot of folks don't know that Cisco has graciously created a UCS emulator for us to use and practice our UCS skill on! Here I show you where to find and download, and walk through the installation with you. Please, please, please use this resource!
UCS Chassis and Blade Overview13:26
In this video we will go through the B5108 chassis hardware, as well as the blades that go into it and serve as our compute hardware!
UCS Fabric Interconnect Overview12:48
In this video we discuss the Fabric Interconnects available with the Cisco UCS solution. We will talk about the models of hardware, and the differences between the units.
UCS IOM Overview11:43
The IOM's are the small modules that plug into the back of the UCS B5108 chassis, and provide the internal connectivity to the blade servers, and the external connectivity for the chassis (up to the FI's). We will discuss the models available, and the differences with them in this video.
UCS Blade I/O Adapter Overview14:55
Have you ever wondered how the blades communicate if they don't have 'physical' ports? In this video we will discuss the various mezzanine and MLOM cards available to us!
UCS Manager Overview10:24
The UCS Manager is the brains of this system, and will allow us to configure our servers and connectivity. Watch this video to learn a little bit more about the UCS Manager, and the various reasons that you will want to use it!
Backplane Ethernet - 10GBASE-KR Overview13:27
Backplane ethernet, or 10GBASE-KR, is the technology that provides connectivity within the blade chassis, to the the blades themselves. Watch this video to learn a little bit more about it, and how the selection of your hardware affects the throughput we pass to the blades.

Bootstrapping the UCS3:37
Demo - Bootstrapping the UCS15:27
IOM Pinning Overview12:14
Demo - Connecting a UCS Chassis21:13
Fabric Interconnects Modes15:35
How UCS Uplinks Work9:51
Demo - Configuring Cisco UCS Uplinks9:50
Demo - Configuring UCS Ethernet Port-Channels11:40
Dynamic Pinning Overview11:23
Static Pinning Overview6:20
Disjoint Layer-2 Overview9:44
Demo - Configuring Disjoint Layer-218:21
Unified Ports within Cisco UCS8:52
Demo - Configuring Unified Ports6:16
UCS Storage Networking Theory13:26
Demo - SAN Uplink Configuration21:15
Demo - Fibre Channel Port-Channels13:37
Demo - Fibre Channel Uplink Trunking13:36
Demo - FCoE Uplink Configuration13:17

Initial vs. Updating Templates7:28
Server Pools and Policies14:06
UUID Pools (Universally Unique Identifiers)11:43
External MGMT IP Address Pools8:09
MAC Address Pools7:14
World Wide Name Pools13:25
WWxN Pools6:52
Configuring BIOS Policies12:14
Configuring Boot Policies (this is kind of important!)10:28
Local Disk Configuration Policies10:35
Configuring Maintenance Policies6:59
Configuring Scrub Policies6:02
Power Control Policies16:58
Network Interface Policies (LACP, Flow Control, etc)15:37
QoS System Classes12:14
QoS Policies7:21
vNIC Templates8:10
Network Control Policies11:51
LAN Connectivity Policies5:04
vHBA Templates and SAN Connectivity Policies4:38

Requirements

Basic understanding of x86 Architectures
Basic understanding of virtualization fundamentals (Hypervisors, virtual machines, etc...)
CCNA or equivalent knowledge
Knowledge of VLAN's and SAN's

Description

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!

Who this course is for:

Pre and Post Sales Engineers
Support Engineers
Virtualization Engineers
Network Engineers

Learning Cisco Unified Computing System - UCS

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Course content

Introduction to the Course!1 lecture • 10min

Introduction and Hardware8 lectures • 1hr 44min

Connecting UCS to the Data Center19 lectures • 3hr 56min

Configuring Pools and Policies20 lectures • 3hr 17min

Service Profiles5 lectures • 1hr 15min

UCS Management2 lectures • 19min

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