About this Course
Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCI) is designed to serve the needs of engineers and technicians who implement Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series Blade Servers and Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers.
DCUCI v5.0 guides learners through rack installation and provisioning of server hardware, operating systems, hypervisors, and applications. Much of the content is devoted to management and maintenance. DCUCI v5.0 covers the implementation and operation of Cisco UCS in the data center.
Audience Profile
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Cisco Integrators and Partners
- Consulting Systems Engineer
- Network Designer
- Network Engineer
- Server Administrator
- Systems Engineer
- Technical Solutions Architect
The secondary audience for this course is as follows:
- Network Administrator
- Network Manager
- Storage Administrator
The tertiary audience for this course is as follows:
- Program Manager
- Project Manager
At Course Completion
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Implement Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers in standalone mode. Boot from the local hard drive and mount the Fibre Channel SAN LUN for shared storage
- 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
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:
- CCNA and DCUFI knowledge and experience until cutover to CCNA DC
- CCNA DC equivalent knowledge and experience
- Server operating systems, hypervisor and virtualization familiarity
- Implementing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions (ICSNS)
Attendance of the following Cisco learning offerings is recommended to fully benefit from this course:
- Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFI)
- Implementing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions (ICSNS)