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Module 1: Review of Data Center Unified Computing Implementation E-Learning Supplement
Lesson 1: Brief Survey of Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Implementation E-Learning Supplement
- Describe challenges of data center server management
- Review Cisco Unified Computing System
- Review Cisco UCS C-Series hardware components
- Review Cisco UCS C-Series hardware installation
- Review Cisco UCS B-Series hardware components
- Review Cisco UCS B-Series architecture and features
- Review Cisco UCS use cases
- Review Server virtualization
- Describe Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches
- Review VMware Ethernet networking
- Review Cisco Nexus 1000V architecture
Module 2: Installation of the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers
Lesson 1: Updating Firmware Components of the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers
- Locate and download C-Series firmware on Cisco.com
- Install and activate C-Series Cisco Integrated Management Controller firmware
- Update C-Series BIOS firmware
- Update C-Series BIOS prior to operating system load
- Recover from a corrupted BIOS
Module 3: Cisco IMC Configuration
Lesson 1: Configuring Cisco IMC
- Access the server BIOS
- Configure Cisco IMC with an IP address to enable in-band management access
- Monitor sensor and log data in Cisco IMC
- Define actions that are based on sensor thresholds
- Export technical support data to TFTP server
Lesson 2: Provisioning Server Hardware with Cisco IMC
- Configure local user accounts to restrict access to Cisco Integrated Management Controller
- Launch and use the KVM console
- Configure virtual media to install operating system software
- Locate and download operating system-specific utilities and drivers on Cisco.com
- Configure IPMI
- Configure SoL
Module 4: Cisco UCS B-Series Hardware and Management
Lesson 1: Describing Cisco UCS B-Series Hardware Components
- List the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect licensing requirements
- Differentiate Between Fault-Tolerant Configurations of the Cisco UCS B-Series Power Supplies
- Describe hardware redundancy components for data and management planes
Lesson 2: Assembling B-Series Architecture and Features
- Describe high availability cluster requirements and processes of the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect
- Describe fault detection and correction using Cisco UCS Manager and the CLI
Lesson 3: Installing Cisco UCS B-Series Hardware
- Define the physical and environmental requirements for Cisco UCS B-Series servers, including dimensions, weight, and floor loading considerations
- List the steps for physical installation of rack-mount slides in the enclosure and on the Cisco UCS 5108 chassis
- List the steps for opening the cases of Cisco UCS B200, B230, B250, and B440 Blade Servers
- List the steps for installation and removal of CPU, RAM, and mezzanine cards in B-Series blades
- List the steps for physical installation and removal of local hard drives
- List the steps for installation of RAID BBU and RAID Key in B440 Blade Servers
- List the steps for physical installation of I/O modules and power supplies in the Cisco UCS 5108 chassis
- List the steps for physical installation and removal of fan units
- List the steps for physical installation of B200, B230, B250, and B440 Blade Servers
- List the steps for physical installation and removal of SFP+ copper Twinax and optical modules
Module 5: Cisco UCS Connectivity Configuration and Management
Lesson 1: Configuring Cisco UCS B-Series Physical Connectivity
- Describe the relationship between I/O uplinks and bandwidth oversubscription
- Describe I/O module architecture, including CMC, I/O MUX, and CMS
- Describe the Cisco IMC management component of the B-Series blades
- Describe the discovery process and how to monitor using finite state machine output
Lesson 2: Exploring the Cisco UCS B-Series User Interfaces
- Navigate the layout of the Cisco UCS Manager GUI
- Describe the features that are available in the navigation window
- List the main features of the Cisco UCS Manager
- Access the Cisco UCS Manager CLI
- Connect to the CLI shells
Lesson 3: Configuring Compute Node LAN Connectivity
- Differentiate between the three port personality states of 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces on the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect
- Describe the requirements and configuration of port channels from the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect to a northbound switch
- Describe end-host mode and its importance in forwarding over multiple Layer 2 links and maintaining a loop-free topology
- Differentiate end-host mode with switched mode
- Describe the requirements for configuring VLANs in Cisco UCS Manager
- Describe the role of vNICs to abstract MAC addresses into a service profile
- Describe static IOM pinning and recovery from link failure
- Describe automatic uplink pinning and recovery from failure
- Describe the configuration of manual uplink pinning and recovery from failure
Lesson 4: Configuring Compute Node SAN Connectivity
- Describe Fibre Channel switching
- Describe N_Port Virtualization
- Differentiate between benefits and drawbacks of Fibre Channel switching and NPV
- Describe how NPIV allows a single N_Port to be associated with multiple FC-IDs
- Describe the requirements and configuration of VSANs in Cisco UCS Manager
- Describe the role of the vHBAs to abstract WWNNs and WWPNs into a service profile
- Describe automatic uplink pinning and recovery from failure
- Describe the configuration of manual uplink pinning and recovery from failure
Module 6: Server Resources Implementation
Lesson 1: Creating Identity and Resource Pools
- Explain the rationale for creating identity and resource pools
- Configure UUID pools
- Configure MAC pools
- Configure WWNN pools
- Configure WWPN pools
- Configure server pools
- Configure the processes to automate server pool membership based on a qualification policy
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of creating pools in the correct organization
Lesson 2: Creating Service Profiles
- Describe the rationale for and benefits of service profiles
- Configure a BIOS policy to enable virtualization features
- Configure an adapter policy to enable RSS and set the failback timer for fabric failover
- Create a QoS system class and allow all Ethernet traffic to use jumbo frames up to an MTU of 9216
- Configure IPMI and SoL policies
- Configure a scrub policy for local disks and BIOS
- Differentiate between the features available in the simple service profile wizard and the expert wizard
- Start the service profile expert wizard
- Configure the service profile to take its UUID from a pool
- Configure a vHBA for two fabrics and have the service profile take its assignment of WWNNs and WWPNs from a pool
- Configure a vNIC for two fabrics and have the service profile take its assignment of MAC addresses from a pool
- Configure vNIC and vHBA placement on full-slot blades
- Configure the binding of a vHBA to a Fibre Channel boot target
- Configure server assignment
- Differentiate between required components and optional components of the service profile definition
Lesson 3: Creating Service Profile Templates and Cloning Service Profiles
- Create a service profile template and describe the need for pooled resources and identities
- Describe the reasons to create differentiated service profile templates to allow variations of policy
- Automate the creation of a server farm using service profile templates
- Describe the hidden pitfalls when using updating templates
- Unbind a service profile from its template
- Clone a service profile and demonstrate understanding of cloning requirements
Lesson 4: Managing Service Profiles
- Use Cisco UCS Manager to associate and disassociate a service profile to a server blade
- Describe what changes to a service profile trigger a Cisco UCS utility operating system update, and outage to a server
- Describe the importance of planning the organization where a service profile is created
- Use Cisco UCS Manager to move a service profile to a new server blade in the event of hardware failure
Module 7: Cisco Unified Computing System Management and Maintenance
Lesson 1: Implementing Cisco Unified Computing System Startup and Shutdown Procedures
- Describe the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect startup and shutdown procedures
- Describe the effects of shutting down or rebooting a Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect on the high-availability cluster
- Implement startup and shutdown procedures for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
- List the procedures for power state verification
Lesson 2: Configuring Role-Based Access Control
- Articulate the overall framework of RBAC in Cisco UCS B Series
- Configure local users, roles, and privileges
- Configure organizations and locales
- Demonstrate an understanding of the effective rights of a user, as an intersection of roles and locales that are mapped to that user
- Configure LDAP and Active Directory as an external authentication and authorization service
- Demonstrate how to map Cisco Unified Computing System roles to LDAP and Active Directory attributes
Lesson 3: Backing Up and Restoring the Cisco UCS Manager Database
- Differentiate between the supported backup types and the functions to which they map in the Cisco UCS Manager database
- Differentiate between an import operation and a disaster-recovery restore operation
- Configure a backup job
- Verify that the backup is created and executed
- Configure an import job to restore the AAA user database
- Verify that the AAA user database is restored
- Configure the backup job to preserve abstracted identities
- Configure the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect for disaster-recovery restore
Lesson 4: Managing High Availability
- Describe high-availability cluster connection requirements for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
- Describe intercluster communications and Cisco UCS Manager database synchronization
- Describe how the Cisco UCS 5108 chassis serial EEPROM resolves split-brain issues in the high-availability cluster
- Differentiate between cluster partition in space and partition in time conditions
- Modify cluster IP addressing
Lesson 5: Monitoring System Events
- Describe the fault management system and evaluate fault severity levels
- Use the audit log to track administrative changes to the Cisco UCS Manager database
- Differentiate areas of operation that are subject to FSM validation and learn how to interpret the FSM output
- Differentiate the configuration and validation of logging options, including local buffer, console, and external syslog servers
- Configure the Smart Call Home feature
- Validate the Smart Call Home feature
- Configure settings for logs, events, and faults
Lesson 6: Managing and Upgrading Cisco UCS B-Series Firmware
- Describe where to find Cisco UCS B-Series firmware packages on Cisco.com
- Update the Cisco UCS B-Series firmware
- Perform a direct upgrade of Cisco IMC, IOM, and mezzanine adapter firmware
- Describe software updates on the fabric interconnect
- Perform firmware updates via service profile
- List the differences between the firmware processes of Cisco UCS 61x0 Fabric Interconnects and Cisco IMC, IOM, and adapter
Module 8: Virtual Server Networking
Lesson 1: Evaluating the Cisco Nexus 1000V
- This lesson defines how to describe the Cisco Nexus 1000V switch and its role in a virtual server networking environment. Upon completing this lesson, the learner will be able to meet these objectives:
- Describe the Cisco virtual switching solution for the VMware vDS
- Describe the switching components of the Cisco Nexus 1000V DVS
Lesson 2: Working with VMware Ethernet Networking
- Describe how the Cisco Nexus 1000V integrates into VMware vDS
- Describe the Cisco DVS solution
- Describe the unique features that the Cisco Nexus 1000V brings to VMware vDS
- Differentiate between the capabilities of the Cisco Unified Computing System virtualization adapter and the Cisco Nexus 1000V
Lesson 3: Characterizing Cisco Nexus 1000V Architecture
- Describe the Cisco Nexus 1000V solution
- Describe the Cisco Nexus 1000V architecture
Lesson 4: Installing and Configuring the Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch
- Describe how to configure the preinstallation vSwitch network
- Describe how to install a VSM on a VM
- Describe the initial configuration of the VSM
- Describe the configuration of the certificate exchange and connection from the VSM to vCenter
- Describe the Cisco Nexus 1000V high-availability configuration
- Describe the Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance
- Differentiate between the capabilities of the Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance and the Cisco Nexus 1000V software VSM
Lesson 6: Configuring Cisco UCS Manager for VMware PTS
- This lesson defines how to configure Cisco UCS Manager for VMware PTS. Upon completing this lesson, the learner will be able to meet these objectives:
- Describe how to install the Cisco UCS Manager extension in vCenter
- Describe how to configure Cisco UCS Manager to connect to vCenter
- Describe how to configure uplink and vEthernet profiles
- Describe how to configure service profiles that contain dynamic NICs
- Describe how to configure vMotion hosts and port profile mobility within Cisco M81KR
Appendices
Appendix A: Survey of Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Implementation E-Learning
- Challenges of data center server management
- Cisco Unified Computing System
- Cisco UCS C-Series hardware components
- Cisco UCS C-Series hardware installation
- Cisco UCS B-Series hardware components
- Cisco UCS B-Series architecture and features
- Cisco UCS use cases
- Server virtualization
- Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches
- VMware Ethernet networking
- Cisco Nexus 1000V architecture
Appendix B: Troubleshooting Cisco UCS B-Series Hardware
- Describe the device fault color coding scheme to determine relative fault level on a given component
- Differentiate between common errors that are observed during hardware discovery
- Describe LED error codes on every component of the Cisco UCS B-Series
- Describe how to harvest and view core files
- Differentiate between common forms of the show tech command within the local management shell
Appendix C: Troubleshooting Cisco UCS B-Series Service Profiles
- Describe troubleshooting of resource assignment errors in the FSM status
- Describe troubleshooting of server profile issues after assignment
Appendix D: Troubleshooting Cisco UCS B-Series Communications Failures
- Describe the troubleshooting methodology for tracking communications from the blade server to the northbound Ethernet or SAN switch
- Describe the process to troubleshoot Ethernet connectivity within the Cisco UCS cluster
- Describe the process to troubleshoot Fibre Channel connectivity within the Cisco UCS cluster
- Describe the process to troubleshoot FCoE within a Cisco UCS cluster
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