UCS Systems Management Deep Dive with UCS Foundational Software BRKCOM-2017 Brad TerEick #clmel What To Expect… Best Practice Many Hidden (“For Your Reference”) & Animated Slides For Your Reference BRKCOM-2017 © 2015 Cisco and/or i ts affi liates. Al l rights reserved. Cisco Public 3 Agenda • Review: UCS Fundamentals – Building Blocks & Connectivity – Stateless, Policy Driven by Design – UCS Manager Architecture– Underneath the Hood • UCS Notifications – Finding the Needle in the Haystack with UCSM • Scaling UCS Management with UCS Central – Role – Getting Started– Domain Registration – Use-cases – What’s New / Next? • Managing Stand-alone C-Series • Automating Configuration Tasks w/UCS PowerTool BRKCOM-2017 © 2015 Cisco and/or i ts affi liates. Al l rights reserved. Cisco Public 4 Review: UCS Building Blocks and Connectivity Unified Computing System Components Cisco UCS Central Multi - UCS Manager LAN/SAN STORAGE: Cisco UCS Manager FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS Embedded Element Manager, GUI and CLI Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects Direct Attached SNMP, Syslog, SMTP, SMASH, CLP, CIM XML, Smart Call Home Cisco UCS I/O& FEX Modules Cisco UCS Blade Server Chassis Cisco UCS Blade and Rack Servers (Cut through interfaces to Cisco IMC) Serial over LAN, KVM, IPMI Cisco UCS I/OA dapters BRKCOM-2017 © 2015 Cisco and/or i ts affi liates. Al l rights reserved. Cisco Public 6 Unified Computing System (UCS) Single Point of Management Unified Fabric Stateless Servers withV irtualisedAdapters BRKCOM-2017 © 2015 Cisco and/or i ts affi liates. Al l rights reserved. Cisco Public Unified Computing System Manager • Embedded device manager for family of UCSc omponents • Deepest possible abstraction of hardware and connectivity • Efficient at scale: Same effort for 1 or N servers, Blade or Rack BRKCOM-2017 © 2015 Cisco and/or i ts affi liates. Al l rights reserved. Cisco Public Review: UCS Stateless, Policy Driven by Design UCS Service Profiles SAN LAN BRKCOM-2017 © 2015 Cisco and/or i ts affi liates. Al l rights reserved. Cisco Public 10