About Education
The “Configuring Data Center Unified Computing” course is an instructor-led course. This course is designed to familiarize data center engineers, architects, and Cisco partners with Cisco UCS B-series and C-series products. This course prepares individuals to implement and manage Cisco UCS hardware with a focus on best practices. You will identify, configure, and troubleshoot features on Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and C-Series Rack-Mounted Servers in a virtualized data center environment.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites are not specified here.
Duration of Training
- Training with an instructor: 5 days, with practical laboratory work
- Virtual instructor-led training: 5 days, with web-based lessons and hands-on lab work
Who Should Participate?
This section identifies the primary and secondary audiences for the course by job role and highlights the importance of each job role. In general, this course is primarily intended for customer network engineers and administrators responsible for configuring product features. Server administrators who work with hypervisor networks are also among the target audiences for this course.
- Primary target audience: Data center engineers, data center managers, and systems engineers.
- Secondary target audience: Data center managers, network engineers, and consulting systems engineers.
- Üçüncül hedef kitle: Data center architects, network administrators, and program/project managers.
Educational Content
Module 1: Cisco UCS Architecture
- Identifying Cisco UCS B Series Blade Server Hardware Components
- Defining Cisco UCS User Interfaces
- Cisco UCS B Series Physical Connection and High Availability Configuration
- Use of RBAC and Organizations
Module 2: Cisco UCS LAN Connection
- Configuring the Compute Node LAN Connection
- Configuring LAN Identity and Resource Pools
- Configuring Compute Node LAN Policies
Module 3: Cisco UCS SAN Connection
- Configuring Compute Node SAN Connection
- Configuring Advanced Compute Node SAN Connection
- Configuring SAN Identity and Resource Pools
Module 4: Configuring Cisco UCS B Series Servers
- Configuring Server Identity and Resource Pools
- Configuring Server Policies
- Configuring Templates and Service Profiles
- Management of Service Profiles
- Configuring Logical Service Profiles Booting from iSCSI
Module 5: Configuring Cisco UCS Virtualization
- Cisco UCS VM-FEX Configuration
- Cisco UCS SR-IOV Configuration
- Cisco UCS VM-FEX Integration for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
- Cisco UCS VM-FEX Configuration for KVM SR-IOV
Module 6: Cisco UCS Administration
- Backup and Restore Cisco UCS Manager Database
- Managing and Upgrading Cisco UCS B Series Firmware
- Using Cisco UCS Management Tools
Module 7: Cisco UCS C Series Features
- Identifying Cisco UCS C Series Servers
- Defining Cisco USC C Series Server Connection Options
- Using Cisco UCS C-Series IMC Discovery
- Cisco UCS C Series Firmware Upgrade
What You Will Gain at the End of Training
- Cisco UCS architecture
- Cisco UCS LAN connection configuration
- Cisco UCS B Series SAN connection configuration
- How to configure and manage servers in Cisco UCS
- How to configure Cisco UCS virtualization
- How to configure Cisco UCS management
- Cisco UCS C Series features
