Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCI)

This primary audience for this course is:

• Network Designer
• Server Administrator
• Network Engineer
• Systems Engineer
• Consulting Systems Engineer
• Technical Solutions Architect
• Cisco Integrators and Partners

Other individuals who would find this course useful include:

• Network Administrator
• Storage Administrator
• Network Manager

This course is part of the following Certifications:

• Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist
• Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist
• Cisco CCIE Data Center (CCIE Data Center)
• Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Center (CCNP Data Center)

The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

• Cisco Certified Network Associate Data Center (CCNA Data Center) or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Server operating systems, hypervisor and virtualization familiarity
• Implementing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions v4.2 (ICSNS) (ICSNS)

Attendance of the following Cisco learning offerings is recommended to fully benefit from this course:

• Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFI)

Upon completing this course, you will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Install Cisco R-Series rack enclosures in the data center
• Install components in the Cisco UCS C-Series rack server prior to rack mounting
• Install Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers in a Cisco R-Series rack
• Use the Cisco UCS Host Upgrade Utility to upgrade or downgrade C-Series firmware to the correct version
• Provision SNMP and syslog, and use C-Series monitoring tools
• Use the Cisco Integrated Management Controller to provision LAN and SAN connectivity for the C-Series server
• Use the LSI MegaRAID web user interface to provision local hard drives into a RAID 5 array
• Install VMware ESXi in the C-Series server local hard drives
• Implement system management, maintenance, and high-availability services for Cisco UCS B-Series
• Implement local and remote authentication services to restrict privileges and delegate management authority in Cisco UCS Manager
• List the processes for managing the firmware repository and upgrade or downgrade Cisco UCS firmware components using Cisco UCS Manager
• Implement backup and restore capabilities in Cisco UCS Manager
• Implement syslog, Smart Call Home, and SPAN
• Maintain Cisco UCS in a high-availability configuration
• Implement generation 1 and generation 2 connectivity
• Differentiate between physical connections on the IOM and the redundant connections for management and data plane over the I/O MUX and midplane
• Install and power up Cisco UCS B-Series hardware
• Implement LAN connectivity for Cisco UCS B-Series hardware
• Implement SAN connectivity for Cisco UCS B-Series hardware
• Provision servers by leveraging reusable pools, policies, and templates that allow for rapid provisioning and consistency of policy
• Perform initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers
• Provision VLANs and fabric interconnect uplinks for server connectivity to the Layer 3 data center cloud
• Provision VSANs and fabric interconnect Fibre Channel uplinks for server connectivity to the data center storage cloud
• Provision resource pools for servers, UUIDs, MAC addresses, WWNN, WWPN, and iSCSI
• Configure reusable server policies in Cisco UCS Manager
• Provision service profiles with initial and updating templates
• Implement virtualization features unique to Cisco UCS that improve performance and manageability
• Describe Cisco VM-FEX and Cisco VM-FEX universal passthrough technologies
• Provision Cisco VM-FEX in Cisco UCS Manager and the VMware vCenter Server
• Provision Cisco VM-FEX universal passthrough in Cisco UCS Manager and the VMware vCenter Server