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UCS Implementation & Design Lab Camp

October 2013

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Whats in the Box?

DCUCD v5 Cisco UCS Design v5

Student Guide

Lab Guide

DCUCI v5 Cisco UCS Implementation v5

Student Guide

Lab Guide

UCS I&D Lab Camp Supplement Guide


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Course Intro

What to expect from this course

100% dedicated to labs

All lecture & concepts support daily labs Student Guide pages SG pg. are listed in green

You manage your time to get the most out of your labs

Recommended Schedule:

Day 1: All Design related Concepts & Labs

Day 2: Direct Configuration & Environment Discovery

Day 3: Logical Configuration & Building a vSphere env.

Day 4: Access Layer Switch options

Day 5: Administering a UCS environment


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Class Administration:

Sign in/Roll Call

Class Hours

Break Room

Lunch Locations

Student Kit

Restrooms

Telephone, fax, internet access


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UCS Lab Topology...


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Participant Introductions

Whats your name?

Who do you work for?

What are your responsibilities there?

What do you hope to get out of this class/What made

you select this class?


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Day 1 Lecture material - All Design related lecture & labs -

Concepts: a free-form overview chalk talk Problems with the current Datacenter; Server sprawl, more

Space/HVAC/Management/Cabling

Solutions with the modern Datacenter; Virtualization in the modern Datacenter.

Virtualizing ALL Datacenter components.

Slides:

DCUCD Module 1, Slides 14 - 37 (SG pg 1-14 - 1-45) = Virtualization in the modern

Datacenter. Virtualizing ALL Datacenter components

DCUCD Module 1, Slides 135 - 155 (SG pg 1-150 - 1-180) = Cisco Datacenter

Components and Validated Designs (ex. CVD at www.cisco.com/go/cvd)

DCUCD Module 2, Slides 1 - 24 (SG pg 2-1 - 2-28)






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Day 1 Labs

Labs: 0 - 4

Lab 0 = Lab topology & Addressing chart

Notice the design hierarchy used even in our Lab Addressing Chart

Lab 1 = Focus on DCUCD Module 2, Slides 107 116

Get to know Microsofts Assessment and Planning Toolkit MAP Toolkit

Lab 2 = Focus on DCUCD Module 3, Slides 1 - 16

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/prod_models_comparison.html

Lab 3 = Focus on DCUCD Module 3, Slides 28 - 40

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10280/prod_models_comparison.html

In both labs 2 & 3 there are charts for 3 solutions; one solution is already populated as an

example.

Lab 4 = Focus on DCUCD Module 3, Slides 50 68

TCO/ROI, Power and Sizing Calculator(s)


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Lab0: Just to get you started... Remote Lab Environment

Logging In

The PC Systems

The Server Systems

The Network Devices

Other Remote Lab Features

Understanding the Topology


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Day 2 Lecture material - Direct Configuration & Environment Discovery -

Slides:

DCUCD Module 5, Slides 1 - 45 (only) (SG pg 5-1 - 5-50) = Addressing hierarchy

Review the "Address Sheet" in Lab

Concepts: a free-form overview chalk talk Demo the basic structure, flow and options of UCS Manager

BASICS of a Service Profile: Logical identities, 1-to-1 Service Profile-to-Blade

association.

Slides (cont.)

DCUCI Module 1, Slides 85 - 143 (SG pg 1-64 - 1-103)




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Day 2 Labs

Labs: 5 - 7

Lab 5 = Use the start of Lab 5 for...

An introduction to UCS Manager ~Demo~

BASICS of the Service Profile wizard and Service Profile wizard

Lab 6 = Focus on DCUCI Module 1, Slides 86 - 146

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/prod_models_comparison

.html Direct configuration of your C-Series server using Ciscos Integrated Management

Controller CIMC

Lab 7 = Focus on DCUCI Module 3, Slides 87 165

Use this lab to best understand the lab environment

LAN; VLANs & Port Channels, SAN; VSANs & SAN Port Channels, Management & Data flows

This is a very real-world topology used in many production environments


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Day 3 Lecture material - Logical Configuration & Building a vSphere env. -

Slides:

DCUCI Module 4, Slides 110 - 158 (SG pg 4-92 - 4-122) = Overview of Pool types

DCUCI Module 4, Slides 159 - 209 (SG pg 4-124 - 4-160) (Optional)

DCUCI Module 4, Slides 211 - 246 (SG pg 4-162 - 4-184) = We will NOW use a

Service Profile Template to create Service Profiles (add'l vNIC & vHBA Templates)

Concept:

Free-form Overview of VMware's vSphere, now vCloud Suite

ESXi; concept of a Hypervisor

vSphere client

vCenter Server

Basic Configuration; Networking (vSS & vDS = Nexus 1000V), Storage (Local

& SAN), Creating VMs

Features;

Cluster features; HA/DRS/DPM/FT

vUM

vMotion


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Day 3 Labs

Labs: 8 - 10


From Lab 8 through the rest of the labs you will use the DCUCI Sub-Organization.

The Resource Pools created in this lab will be used by Templates to create your logical build. Ex. vHBA, vNIC Templates and Service Profile templates.


A Service Profile Template will be created to use the pools from Lab 8.

From the Service Profile Template a Service Profile will be created and serve as the

Logical Build for your actual server (ex. UCS B-Series blade).

Lab 10 = Use the free-form lecture to review the installed components

Here you will build the foundations for what will become a real-world vSphere env.

vSphere Client, vCenter Server (Windows based) and VMwares vSphere Update Manager


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Day 4 Lecture material - Access Layer Switch options -

Slides:

DCUCI Module 5, ALL SLIDES This module fully describes the Nexus 1000v (Labs

11 & 12), UCSM & vSphere Integration (Lab 13) & VM-FEX options (Lab 14)

Slides 1 - 8 are a high-level overview of vSphere Networking.

Concept:

Free-form lecture on how "Fabric EXtension or FEX has been around since the days of the Catalyst 5500. A line card "EXtended" that devices Fabric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uCU9ghxJKg


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Day 4 Labs

Labs: 11 - 14


Here we introduce the Nexus 1000v VSM, Nexus 1000v Installer and the needed Control,

Management and Packet VLANs.

Best success when using B-Series Servers for Testing. Lab steps instruct you to keep

VMs on blades.

Nexus 1000v uses a new installer introduced in v1.5


Here we introduce the Nexus 1000V VEM, Port-Profile concepts and commands


An introduction to integrating UCS Manager and vCenter Server to allow overlapping administrative functions to be performed within UCS Manager. Ex. Virtual Switch config.


Exploring VM-FEX deployment options to leverage VM to Direct Hardware

communications.


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Day 5 Lecture material - Administering a UCS environment -

Slides:

Finalize any labs from Day 4

DCUCI Module 2 (SG pg 2-1 - 2-114)

DCUCI Module 2, Slides 1 45

DCUCI Module 2, Slides 46 - 87

UCS Manager Upgrade process (Overview only)

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10281/prod_installation_guides_list.html

* DO NOT actually make changes to the install firmware currently on the blades.

The UCS environment uses a shared chassis, making a change to the globally

installed firmware could impact others on this chassis this week and future

classes to use this same chassis.




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Day 5 Labs

Labs: 15 - 17


Configuring Role Based Access Control for administrative access to UCS Manager

Task 5, Step 7 DOES NOT change auth. It only shows how to make a change


Exploring Backup and Import options for UCS configurations


Syslog is a global setting. Pods must be broken up into teams & configure a

Syslog server per team.

SNMPv3 is here for a real-world configuration DEMO ONLY. We then switch

back to SNMPv2 to complete this task.

Appendix

A: Design Answer key, Complete lab topology (4) & Optional Labs

B: Installing Hyper-V 2012, vSphere v4.1 & vSphere 5.1

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