Nexus 5K Overview

Some basics on the 5010, 5020, 5548P/UP and 5596UP/T. This post is still a work in progress.

UCS Stats Management

Just another post to be sure that I have all the bases covered.

UCS LDAP Authentication

A simple LDAP Authentication post.  I have no way to verify any of this so I'm hoping it's correct.

UCS Admin Tab

There are seven tabs and 2 other items in this section. I plan a subsequent post on LDAP authentication and Stats Management as these are fairly involved.

• Faults, events and audit log
• User management
• Key management
• Communication management
• Stats management
• Timezone management
• Capability catalog
• License management 

Jumbo MTU Cheatsheet

How the maximum MTU is configured across the different CCIE DC lab devices is fairly complex and varied.  I've condensed my understanding of how to configure in the document below.  For reference material I used the fantastic post by Peter Revill (http://www.ccierants.com/2013/10/ccie-dc-definitive-jumbo-frames.html) and various Cisco documents.  Any mistakes are clearly mine.

ISLB Example Configurations

A few examples of different ISLB configurations:

Nexus 5000 FCoE Notes

Just some notes from reading about FCoE on the 5K.

ISCSI Boot Policy in UCS

I seem to always forget that when creating a boot policy to boot from ISCSI, you must choose "create a specific boot policy" for the ISCSI vNIC to be displayed as an option.

Nexus 7000 Storage Notes

Some notes I have from reading about SAN on the Nexus 7000.

MDS ISLB

This post is intended to provide an overview and some of the configuration steps involved in ISLB.

VSAN and Zoning Notes

Some VSAN and Zoning notes so that I can keep some of the concepts that will likely be in the lab straight.

Unified Computing Server Resources

This is the third of five UCS sections on the blueprint.

UCS SAN Tab

In order to make sure that I've covered all the bases, I'm going to look at all the items in the SAN tab.

Implement SAN Connectivity in a Unified Computing Environment

One of the sections from the blueprint.  Quite a bit of info but I'll try to cram it into one post.

Notes on the UCS Equipment in the Lab

The Data Center V1.0 blueprint lists these UCS components in the lab:

UCS C200 Series Server
    vic card for c-series

UCS-6248 Fabric Interconnects

UCS-5108 Blade Chassis
    B200 M2 Blade Servers
    Palo mezzanine card
    Emulex mezzanine card

FCoE on UCS/Nexus

This post is based on a Gold Lab that I did.  The purpose is to capture the basics of Multihop FCoE.

ISCSI Basic Lab

This is a post of an MDS configuration for iSCSI.  I used a Win 7 workstation as a iSCSI initiator.  The target is an MDS 9200 with an IPS module.  There is a FC attached JBOD for storage. Later on I plan to try more of the options.  The goal of this lab was just to see iSCSI work on the MDS.

1000v Port-Channels

Another topic of it's own on the blueprint

1000v Network Monitoring

A topic of it's own on the blueprint so I'm assuming this is worth a few points

Nexus 1000v Port Profiles and VLANs

I thought these topics were worth a dedicated post.