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Cisco UCS Management and Operations Workshop (UCS-MOW2)

  • Overview

    Description, Pre requisites

  • Content

    Lessons, Course Structure

“By Invitation Only Workshop for Cisco Customers”

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This workshop is a fast-paced technical delivery that is aimed at providing essential skills that will enable engineers to successfully place, operate and troubleshoot UCS in a customer environment.

It covers the key concepts of using pools, policies and templates to place Service Profiles to servers, storage and network integration.

Objectives

After completing this workshop the student should be able to:

  • Establish and set-up UCS infrastructure including UCS Fabric Interconnects, UCS IOMs, the UCS 5108 Blade Chassis and UCS B-Series Blade Servers.
  • Understand the components of the UCS system and the connectivity between them.
  • Explain how to set up and provision Cisco UCS Servers
  • Create and establish service profiles, service profile templates and related policies and resources.
  • Explain how to maintain and update the UCS System, e.g. firmware management, backup/restore, logging/reporting options, etc.
  • Install operating systems on UCS servers such as VMware ESXi.
  • Explain high availability, management of the Cisco UCS, provisioning administrator access, configure RBAC and use of CLI shells.
  • Implementing Cisco Intersight and Managing UCS using Intersight
  • Operation of UCS servers and service profiles and understand communication paths
  • Troubleshoot faults and failure using analysis and reporting features

Target Audience

  • Server administrators and operators
  • Technical architects and designers
  • Networking Field Engineers

  Pre-Requisite 

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

  • Basic understanding of networking, server and storage technologies


Duration:

3 days (4 hours per day)

Module 1: UCS Components

  • FI, UCSM, IOM, Computes, Adapters
  • What they do, how they work, how they interconnect
  • Hardware components and feature matrix

Module 2: Policies and Service Profiles

  • Stateless computing benefits
  • Service Profile usage and best practices
  • Resources, Pools, Policies
  • Templates and Profiles
  • Server Associations

Module 3: External Connectivity

  • Intro to networking and DC requirements
  • EHM, Ethernet Switching Mode
  • Fibre Channel Overview
  • NPV and FC Switching
  • Core network connectivity options and configurations

Module 4: Features

  • Soft-/Firmware Management
  • Backup/Restore
  • RBAC
  • Local Storage Configuration (especially relevant to S-Series)

Module 5: Automation and Programmability

  • Classes, objects, and Management Information Tree
  • Features to explore MIT objects
  • PowerTools module for PowerShell
  • Python SDK

 Module 6: Operation and Troubleshooting

  • Understand policy and pool usage
  • Interpret logs, reports, events and faults
  • Service profile association and status
  • Server internal and external communication
  • Features and tool assisting in troubleshooting

Module 7: Managing UCS using Intersight

  • Cisco Intersight Overview
  • Cisco Intersight Licensing
  • Cisco Intersight Key Components
  • Accessing Cisco Intersight
  • User Addition and RBAC
  • Cisco Intersight GUI
  • Managing UCS cluster using Cisco Intersight

Labs:

  • Configuration of the UCS system
  • Connect the UCS system to the core infrastructure
  • Resource pools and server policies
  • Creating service profiles and service profile templates
  • Mobile service profiles (boot from remote sources)
  • Creating a virtualized environments with advanced networking
  • Soft- and firmware maintenance
  • Configuration management, RBAC
  • Simple UCS scripting and automation