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 

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.

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.

UCS Hardware Overview

This post provides a high level listing of the hardware involved with the UCS solution.

Overview
UCS has three series of UCS servers - The B,C and E series.  The B series (think 'B" for Blade) is as you guessed, a blade based solution.  The C series are rack mount servers and the E series is based on a module that is inserted into an ISR router. 

UCS LAN Connectivity

According to the blueprint, there are five categories on testable items in the LAN section.

• Configure different Port types
• Implement Ethernet end Host Mode
• Implement VLANs and Port Channels.
• Implement Pinning and PIN Groups
• Implement Disjoint Layer 2

I won't just include these five but they will be the focus.

UCS Configuration Screen Shots

This post provides an overview of the basic steps required to configure a UCS system with mostly screenshots.