Dc Ccna Intro to Ucs

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CCNA DCIntroduction to Cisco Unified Computing System (UC

Robert Burns, CCIE Datacenter


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Data Center Techno

1.0 Cisco data center fundamental concepts

Describe network architectures for the data center (LAN, SAN)

Describe the modular approach in network design

Describe the data center core layer

Describe the data center aggregation layer

Describe the data center access layer

Describe the collapse core model

Describe Cisco FabricPath

Identify key differentiator between DCI and network interconnectivity

Describe, configure, and verify vPC

Describe the functionality ofand configure port channels

Describe and configureVDC

Describe the edge and core layers of the SAN

Describe the Cisco Nexus product family

Configureand verify network connectivity

Identify control and data plane traffic

Perform initial setup

2.0 Data center unified fabric

Describe FCoE

Describe FCoE multihop

Describe VIFs

Describe FEX products


3.0 Storage networking

Describe the initiator target

Verify SAN switch operations

Describe basic SAN connectivity

Describe the different types of storage array connectivity

Verify name server login

Describe, configure, and verify zoning


Describe, configure, and verify VSAN

4.0 Data center virtualization

Describe device virtualization

Describe server virtualization

Describe the Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch

Verify initial setup and operation for the Cisco Nexus 1000

5.0 Unified computing

Describe the Cisco UCS product family

Describe the Cisco UCS Manager

Describe, configure, and verify cluster configurationDescribe and verify discovery operation

Describe, configure, and verify connectivity


Describe the key features of the Cisco UCS Manager

6.0 Data center network services

Describe standard Cisco ACE features for load balancing

Describe server load-balancing virtual context and high av

Describe server load-balancing management options

Describe the benefits of the Cisco Global Load Balancing

Describe how the Cisco Global Load Balancing Solution inCisco load balancers

Describe the Cisco WAAS need and advantages in the da


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Describe the enabling concepts & technologies of UCS Describe the Cisco UCS product family Describe the Cisco UCS Manager Describe the key features of the Cisco UCS Manager Describe, configure, and verify cluster configuration Describe and verify discovery operation Describe, configure, and verify connectivity


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1. Consolidation of Data Center Elements Unified Fabric

2. Simplified Management

3. Stateless computing

4. Virtualization Optimized


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I/O Consolidation with FCoEFewer Network Adapters per Server

10GB CN

10GB CN

2GB FC HBA

2GB FC HBA

1GB NIC

1GB NIC

Storage Traffic

Storage Traffic

LAN1 Traffic

LAN1 Traffic1GB NIC

1GB NIC

1GB NIC

1GB NIC

LAN2 Traffic

LAN2 Traffic

LAN3 Traffic

LAN3 Traffic


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BladeChassis

10GE/FCoE

LSAN

Blade

Blade

Fewe Fewe All I/O

chass

10GE

LAN,

Easie Blade

chass

Smal

Todays Approach

All fabric types have switches ineach chassis

Repackaged switches Complex to manage Blade-chassis configuration

dependency

Costly Small network domain

Blade

Blade

Mgmt


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Fromadhocandinconsistent

tostructured,complicatedandcostly

tosimpandco


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Priority Flow Control

With PFC, an administ

which priorities are lossare lossy. The network lossy priorities as in cla

will use a per priority paguarantee that no fram

are lost on the lossless

Figure courtesy of UCS: A Data Center Virtualization Server by Silvano Gai, Tommi Salli & Roger Anderson

Device A Device B



Priority Flow Control

IEEE 802.1Qaz ETS (Enhanced Transmission Selection)

This acontro

bandwlatency

increaIPC ap

Figure courtesy of UCS: A Data Center Virtualization Server by Silvano Gai, Tommi Salli & Roger Anderson



VNTag ImplementationVNTag (basis for 802.1Qbh)

Centralized controlling bridge (CB)Distributed Interface Virtualizers (IV)Virtual Interface Control Protocol for control of the IVs from a centralizedbridge (VIC)

Switching typically done at controlling bridge

Ingress/Egress port visibility required for many bridging functionsTags are between IV and controlling bridge on link-local basisNo STPNo uplink-uplink forwardingManagement of physical and virtual ports identical

vNICs are just adapters on centralized bridgeCisco extending this with port policy and grouping of vNICs with VM-FEX

NIV is a collection of s/w (VNTag) and h/w (VIC) that allow frames to/from

traverse the same link to a server yet have a consistent set of network pol

on source and target vNICs


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UCS Architecture & Components



Mgmt Server MgmtEmbed management

Unify LAN & SAN fabrics

Optimize virtualization

Remove unnecessaryswitches,

adapters,

management modules

Less than 1/2 the supportinfrastructure for a givenworkload

Mgmt Server


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Mgmt ServerA single system that encompasses:

Network: Unified fabric

Compute: Industry standard x86

Storage: Access options

Virtualisation optimized

Unified management model

Dynamic resource provisioning

Efficient Scale

Cisco network scale & servicesFewer servers with more memory

Lower cost

Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables

Lower power consumption

Fewer points of management


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Single, scalable integrated system Network + compute virtualisation Dynamic resource provisioning Ability to manage up to 20 Chassis in one

UCS domain

Multiple UCS domains maCentral

Unified Management for alpolicies & resources

Mgmt

SALAN


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UCS System Overview

Compute blades/racksIntel ProcessorsHalf & Full widthI/O Mezzanine Options

Stateless blade enclosure8 blade slotsNo management modules

Stateless IO module (IOM)4-8 x 10Gig uplinks (SFP+)Transport for FC & Ethernet using FCoEFEX in functionality

Fabric Interconnect (FI)48 & 96 Port versionsUpstream FC & DCE connectivity toexisting SAN & LAN


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2U High, 56-P40 Ports 10 GSFP+ Interfac2 Expansion 1.12 Tbps Fa

1U High, 28-Port FI20 Ports 10 GE/FCoESFP+ interfaces1 Expansion Module560 Gbps Fabric

Built on Nexus5000Technology

UplinkExpansionModules Fibre Channel

8 Ports 1/2/4G FC, SFP

Combo: FC + Ethernet

4 Ports 10GE/FCoE, SFP+ 4 Ports 1/2/4G FC, SFP

E

6120 6140UCSM

UCSM

Fiber Channel

6 Ports 2/4/8Gbps, SFP


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Fabric Interconnect Options6248XP 32 x 10 Gbps ports fixed, 1 GEM

6296XP 48 x 10 Gbps ports fixed, 3 GEMs

Unified Ports1G

10G

FC

Improved Throughput6248 960 Gbps Fabric

6296 1.92 Tbps Fabric

Built on Nexus 5500 technology

1U

2U


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Enable Dual 20 Gbps to Each Blade Server

UCS-IOM-2204XP Bandwidth increase for improved response esp

Applications

o 40G to the Networko 160G to the Host Redundant

(2x10G/ Half width slot; 4x10G/ Full width slo

Latency Lowered to 0.5us within IOM Investment Protection with Backward and Forwa

BANDWIDTH BURSTY APPLICATFOR


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Enable Dual 40 Gbps to Each Slot

UCS-IOM-2208XP Bandwidth increase ideal for bursty App

o 80G to the Networko 320G to the Host Redundant

Latency Lowered to 0.5us within IOM Investment Protection with Backward an

BANDWIDTH BURSTY APPLICATFOR


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8 sl

2 slfoafu

4 x power supplies (Grid, N+1 or Non-Redundant)


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2 x IOM

4 x Hot Plug PSU


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Redundant data and management paths

I/O M

Blade CPSU Connectors

67% Open


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B22 M3 B200 M3 B230 M2 B420 M3

Blade Slots 1 1 1 2

Cores 16 16 20 32

DIMMs 12 24 32 48

Max GB 384GB 768GB 512GB 1.5TB

Disk 2 x 2.5 2 x 2.5 2 SSD 4 x 2.5

RAID 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1/5/6

mLOM Dual 20Gb Dual 20Gb No Dual 20Gb

Addl Mezz 1 1 1 2


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C22 M3 C24 M3 C220 M3 C240 M3 C260 M2 C420

RU 1 2 1 2 2 2

Cores 16 16 16 16 20 32

DIMMs 12 12 16 24 64 48

Max GB 192GB* 192GB* 512GB 768GB 1TB 1.5

Disk8 x 2.5 or

4 x 3.524 x 2.5 or

12 x 3.58 x 2.5 or

4 x 3.524 x 2.5 or

12 x 3.516 x 2.5 or 32 x

SSD16 x

LoM 2 x 1Gb 2 x 1Gb 2 x 1Gb 4 x 1Gb2 x 1Gb + 2 x

10Gb2 x 1

PCIe Slots2 x PCIe

3.05 x PCIe

3.02 x PCIe

3.05 x PCIe

3.06 x PCIe 2.0 6 x PC

InternalStorage

USB Port USB PortUSB PortFlexFlash

USB PortFlexFlash

USB PortFlexFlash

USB FlexF

*384GB w/ 32GB DIMMs


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CCompatibilityVirtualization

VM I/OVirtualization andConsolidation

Minimal DisruptionUsing ExistingDriver Stacks

High Eth

Con

M81KR VIC (EoS)1240 VIC

1280 VIC

M

M

CNA M72KR-E/Q

Support for VN-Link & Fabric Failover


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IOM 1

IP failover can done byCisco with Fabric

Failover

IOM 2 HBA n

HBA0

Eth n

Eth0

1. Appear as HW NIC and HBAto OS

2. Total # of vNICS (HBA +Eth)Determined by # of uplinks


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Introduction to UCS Management


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UCS Manager

GUICustom Portal

Systems Management

Software

CLI

Single point of management foof componentsAdapters, blades, chassis, fabric exte

interconnects

Embedded device managerDiscovery, Inventory, Configuration, M

Diagnostics, Statistics Collection

Coordinated deployment to managed

APIs for integration with new adata center infrastructure

SMASH-CLP, IPMI, SNMPXML-based SDK for commercial & cu

implementations

RBAC & Multi-Tenancy SP modelManaged Services administration


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UCS Manager accessible via cluster IP address Floating IP address for automatic failover Management port on both Fabric Interconnects must be co

UCS Manager runs as two instances (Primary and Subo Database and state information replicated over cluster link Split brains scenarios are prevented by architecture itselfAutomatic process restart upon failure

UCS Cluster

CLI Custom Portalor Tools


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Two UCS 6x00 Fabric Interconnects in a redundant conf L1 & L2 Clustering Links ( for Management HA only)

High availability for UCS management access Switching functionality

L1

L2

L1

L2

Fabric-A Switch Fabric-B Switch


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ConsoMgmt 0

Mgmt 1 U

Clustering

L2


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Equipment: Physical ports between UCS

components and Northbound SAN and LAN

Servers: Manage Service Profiles

LAN: Manage VLANs

SAN: Manage SANs

Admin: Authentication, users, loVM: Manage Virtual Machine Service


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GUI Navigation CLI Equivalent to GUI


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UCS Connectivity & Environmental


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LANSAN

slot 1slot 2slot 3slot 4slot 5slot 6slot 7slot 8

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Support for NetApp and EMC direct attachedstorage

Not a general purpose FC switch very littleswitching configuration possible

Ethernet and FC switching modes are independent Note: No management integration with FC Storage

Directly connect FC, FCoE or NAS storage to FI Lower hops and reduced latency to End to end FCoE topologies possible

Customer benefits

Feature details

UC

UCS FI

FCoE StoraNAS


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UCS Ethernet Connectivity


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Both modes are supported on the Fabric Interconnect

Ethernet end-host mode EHM Traditional Ethernet switch mode

For Ethernet, EHM is the default mode of operation

No reason any longer to use Switch mode!


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Uplink

Interface

Server

Interface (SI)

Active

Local Traffic

Internally Switched


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Uplink

Interface

Server

Interface (SI)

Server Interfaces arepinned to uplinks and

all traffic follows thepinned port.

Tra

bet

ser

upl


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HA

1-8 x 10GE1-8 x 10GE

Port-channels


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VPC /

VSS

Port-channel

HA

1-8 x 10GE1-8 x 10GE


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Fibre Channel SAN Connectivity


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The 6x00 FC interface run in N-Port virtualization (NPV) mode. There are no fabric services on the FC module (name/zone serve

switching, etc.)

It must connect to an NPIV enabled SAN switchWorks with most any vendor in a native mode

No interop issues

Storage ports are connected to the core fabric


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Optional to configured F-port trunking


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vHBA identity (WWPN)

single VSAN and optional F

uplink pin group


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Service Profiles & Stateless Computin


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Perform tasks for each server Inhibits pay-as-you-grow incremental deployment

Needs admin coordination every time

May incur downtime during deployments

Complex server replacement, upgrade, migration processMost of these tasks need to be performed for replacement server

Server Administrator: Configure management LAN Upgrade firmware versions

Chassis, BMC, BIOS, adapters Configure BIOS settings Configure NIC settings Configure HBA settings Configure boot parameters

Storage Administrator: Configure LUN access

Masking, binding, boot LUN Configure switch

Zoning, VSANs, QoS

Network Adm Configure L

Uplinks, V Configure p

QoS, ACLs


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Netw

Uplinks

LAN set

VLA

QoS

etc

Firmwar

Rev

Storage

Optional Disk usage

SAN settings

LUNs

Persistent Binding

SAN settings

vSAN

Firmware

Revisions

Server

Identity (UUID)

Adapters

Number

Type: FC, EthernetIdentity

Characteristics

Firmware

Revisions

Configuration settings


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Upgrades/Maintenance

Profile Name: finance-01UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61

MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FCWWN: 5080020000075740

Boot Policy: SAN, LANFirmware:xx.yy.zz

Disassociate service profile from old serverAssociate service profile to new serverOld server can be upgraded, retired or re-purposed

Old ServerChassis 1 Blade 1

New ServChassis 1


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Resource PoolsPoliciesTemplates


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Before we start creating Service Profiles we can make use of a few building blo Pools Predefined Resources Policies Rules to be followed Templates Common configuration built using pools and policies that can be a

specific OS, hypervisor, db, application.


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Used to automatically assign identities to server and interfaces Basis for stateless computing

Managing server identity

MAC pool 1

00:25:b5:00:00:01

00:25:b5:00:00:02

00:25:b5:00:00:03

00:25:b5:00:00:04

MAC pools

MAC pool n

00:25:b5:00:ff:01

00:25:b5:00:ff:02

00:25:b5:00:ff:03

00:25:b5:00:ff:04

WWNN pool 1

20:00:25:b5:11:00:00:01

20:00:25:b5:11:00:00:02

20:00:25:b5:11:00:00:03

20:00:25:b5:11:00:00:04

WWN pools

WWN pool n

20:00:25:b5:ff:00:00:01

20:00:25:b5:ff:00:00:02

20:00:25:b5:ff:00:00:03

20:00:25:b5:ff:00:00:04

UUID pool 1

100025b5-0000-0000-1000-

100025b5-0000-0000-1000-

100025b5-0000-0000-1000-

100025b5-0000-0000-1000-

UUID suffix

UUID poo

100025b5-0000-0000-20

100025b5-0000-0000-20

100025b5-0000-0000-20

100025b5-0000-0000-20


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Policy Type Policy description

Adapter Assign/Customize adapter Tx/Rx Queues, TCO, RSS, TC

BIOS BIOS settings - Turbo Boost, HT, SpeedStep, VT, RAS Me

Boot Local Disk, LAN, SAN, CD/DVD

Host Firmware Assign specific version of firmware to hardware devices, CStorage Controller, BIOS version

IPMI profile Server IPMI capability and ro/rw access type

Maintenance Reboot policy, timer or user-ack

Power Control Power Capping attributes

Scrub Defines if servers state to be kept during discovery

Serial over LAN Serial over LAN server capabilities

Server Pool Auto-assign hardware to pools based on pre-defined qual


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Template can be created for

vNICs vHBAs Service Profiles LAN & SAN Connectivity (New)


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Service Profile Association


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Actually two step process

1. Assigning blade to service profile (just a UCS config)Could still fail if blade not compatible with profile

2. Blade configuration through PnuOS (Processor Node Utility OSystem

The association process is used to program the bare metal with MAC, nWWsettings, boot order, Firmware etc


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Once this completes, the server is ready for the bare meOperating System to be installed


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Demonstrate initial setup Verify Cluster configuration Enable server links & discover blades

&


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Recommended Reading & Links FR

Useful Links:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10281/products_installation_and_configuration_gui

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns944/networking_solutions_white_papers_list.htmlhttps://supportforums.cisco.com/community/netpro/data-center/unified-computing?view=doc

https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/netpro/data-center/unified-computing?view=vide


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Next Webinar: Thurs. Mar 7th

Keep checking the Cisco Learning Network site for new sessionshttps://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-16438

Topic Date Presenter

Introduction to FCoE Protocols Mar 7th Ozden Karakok

NXOS Advanced Features (vPC, FabricPath, OTV) Mar 14th Michael Brown / Ro

Nexus 1000v Deep Dive Mar 21st Robert Burns

SAN Zoning Mar 28th Michael Brown


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