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Cisco UCS Fundamentals – Virtual (UCS-FND1V)

  • Overview

    Description, Pre requisites

  • Content

    Lessons, Course Structure

This workshop is a fast-paced technical delivery that is aimed at providing essential skills that will enable engineers to create a base UCS deployment.

It covers the key concepts of deploying Service Profiles to servers, storage and network integration along with using the UCS unique features in a Hypervisor environment.

Course Objectives

After completing this course the student should be able to:

  • Understand the benefits of stateless computing
  • Know the UCS components, their operation and interaction
  • Explain how to install and provision Cisco UCS Servers
  • Create and deploy service profiles, service profile templates and related policies and resources.

Target Audience

  • Server administrators and operators
  • Technical architects and designers
  • Networking Field engineers involved in UCS Deployments

Suggested Pre-requisites

The knowledge and skills that a student must have before attending this course are as follows:

The knowledge and skills that a student must have before attending this course are as follows:

  • Basic understanding of networking, server and storage technologies

Course Duration

6 Hours

Course Content

Module 1: Data Centre Requirements

  • Manageability
  • Cloud Infrastructure → Flexibility, Agility, Automation, Virtualization
  • Deployment Immediacy
  • OpEx
  • Security
  • Types of Workloads
  • Converged infrastructure

Module 2: UCS Solution meets DC Requirements

  • Selection of platforms for different use cases
  • Access Layer Integration
  • Stateless computing, policy driven
  • Compute versatility
  • Single point of management

Module 3: UCS Components

  • FI, UCSM, IOM, Computes, Adapters
  • What they do, how they work, how they interoperate
  • All the hardware foundation

Module 4: Service Profiles

  • Resources, Pools, Policies
  • Templates
  • Association

Module 5: External Connectivity

  • Introduction to networking and DC issues (SPT, L3, PC, etc)
  • EHM, Switching Mode
  • NPV and FC Switching

Demo

  • Policy, pool and service profile setup
  • Run server and migrate to different compute