UCS Implementation and Design Lab Camp v5.0

COURSE OUTLINE:

Description

This course is ideal for the engineer who has limited time to become proficient in designing, configuring, and administering a Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) environment. Designed for those who understand the basics of UCS server architecture, this course provides you with an opportunity to work with a complete UCS environment.

In order to maximize hands-on practice time, brief lectures will occur each morning, preparing you for the day's labs. The remaining time in class is dedicated to lab time, whereby each student is assigned a separate UCS environment.

Each UCS environment includes a Nexus 5k core, a pair of Fabric Interconnects, both B-Series and C-Series servers, Microsoft Hyper-V (2008 or 2012), VMware vSphere (v4.x, 5.0, 5.1, and 5.5), the Cisco Nexus 1000v (v1.5x and 2.2x), and Cisco's pass-through switching.

Audience

System engineers and technicians who implement Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers
Data center (LAN, SAN, Server) administrators, managers, designers, and engineers

Prerequisites

CCNA and DCUFI knowledge and experience
CCNA DC equivalent knowledge and experience
Familiarity with server operating systems, hypervisor, and virtualization
Familiarity with Ethernet and TCP/IP networking, SANs, Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP), and hypervisor technologies (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen)

Attendance of the following Cisco courses is recommended in order to fully benefit from this course:

Learning Objectives

Evaluate the data center solution design, architecture, and components.
Assess the requirements and performance of the data-center solution
Cisco UCS hardware components and how to select the proper hardware
Evaluate and design Cisco UCS solutions for LAN, SAN, and Virtual Access layer connectivity
Cisco UCS B-Series and C-Series system architectures, hardware components, and field-installable options
Cisco UCS server deployments
Configure Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers with Cisco UCS Manager v2.2(1d) Configure Cisco UCS C-Series blade servers with Cisco IMC Implement service profiles and blade configuration for Microsoft Hyper-V (2008 and 2012) and VMware ESXi (v4.1, v5.0, v5.1 and v5.5)
Management challenges in Cisco UCS data center server environments
Cisco UCS components
Configure Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers with Cisco UCS Manager
Configure Cisco UCS C-Series blade servers with Cisco IMC (CIMC)
Cisco UCS platform connectivity requirements
Configure server profiles to allocate physical resources
Configure maintenance tasks such as Syslog, LDAP, RBAC, and SNMP
Configure high availability at the LAN, SAN, and server NIC level
Troubleshoot common LAN and SAN connectivity and service-profile issues
Configure Cisco Nexus 1000v v1.5.x or 2.2.x in VMware vSphere v4.1, v5.0, 5.1, or v5.5 environments
Configure Cisco UCS Manager and VMware vSphere integration
Configure, compare, and contrast Cisco's VM-FEX and VM-FEX with pass-through switching

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