Cisco UCS

Cisco UCS blades are not encoded with MAC address. So we need to create the MAC addresses, that are unique in their Layer 2 environment and are available to be assigned to vNICs on a server.  To assign a MAC address to a blade , you have to include the MAC pool in a vNIC policy. The […]

Cisoc UCS’s Multi-tenancy method  allows you to divide up the large physical infrastructure of an instance into logical entities known as organizations.So that you can isolate between the organizations logically without having the dedicated infra for each environment.  Creating a sub-organization is optional, for granularity and organizational purposes and are meant to contain servers/pools/policies of different functions. […]

In Cisco 6100 series Fabric interconnect , the fixed module ports can be used only for server ports and Ethernet uplinks ports. In other-words , Ports are not unified in this series. But we can add expansion modules to increase the number of uplink ports on the fabric interconnect or to add uplink Fibre Channel ports to the […]

To provide the external SAN access to the UCS environment, it needs to be connected to FC SAN switches or the Storage box which  supports the FCoE. Traditional infrastructure will be still using the FC SAN network as a centralized storage.  If you would like to connect the UCS domain to an existing SAN network, you have to configure […]

To provide to the external network connectivity to UCS environment,it needs to be connected to the external LAN switches. Fabric interconnect is highly customizable and you have to decide the each port functionality.  In the previous article , we have seen that how to configure the server ports to provide the connectivity between chassis and FI. The same […]

Once you have done the Cabling and Fabric Interconnect’s cluster configuration, the next step would be to configuring the polices and configure ports to perform the chassis discovery.  In this article,we will see that how we can configure the equipment policies and discovery the chassis. Once the chassis is discovered , you can see the chassis components like […]

This article will provide the step by step instructions to setup the Cisco UCS environment for first time. Cisco UCS is highly customizable and  the configuration will be differ for each environment. The core part of  Cisco UCS deployment is  cabling. Unlike the traditional chassis , Cisco UCS have additional components like I/O modules (FEX) and Fabric […]

The computer industry is on the major transition due to the server consolidation and virtualization products on the market. Cisco is commonly known for networking  components like switches, routers and IP phones. But in 2009 , they have entered in to the X86 server market on their own style with data centre virtualization and consolidation methods. There was […]