Cisco Unified compute software and configuration management will help an operation to easily back up system configurations and firmware upgrades. Any computer hardware can fail or be lost due to natural disasters. If that happens, the operation will lose all configurations and will require an extensive and time-consuming process to recover computers. A backup can help you restore or replace them in a short time.

This chapter discusses configuration backup/restore and firmware upgrade aspects of the Cisco UCS family relevant to the certification exam. It is assumed that you are familiar with the Cisco UCS product family.

This chapter covers the following key topics:

Cisco UCS Configuration Management: This section covers UCS configuration backup and restore methods and policies and provides examples.

UCS Firmware and Software Updates: This section covers UCS firmware and software updates using the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager and Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) and provides examples.

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz

The “Do I Know This Already?” quiz enables you to assess whether you should read this entire chapter thoroughly or jump to the “Exam Preparation Tasks” section. If you are in doubt about your answers to these questions or your own assessment of your knowledge of the topics, read the entire chapter. Table 14-1 lists the major headings in this chapter and their corresponding “Do I Know This Already?” quiz questions. You can find the answers in Appendix A, “Answers to the ‘Do I Know This Already?’ Quizzes.”

Table 14-1 “Do I Know This Already?” Section-to-Question Mapping

Caution

The goal of self-assessment is to gauge your mastery of the topics in this chapter. If you do not know the answer to a question or are only partially sure of the answer, you should mark that question as wrong for purposes of the self-assessment. Giving yourself credit for an answer you correctly guess skews your self-assessment results and might provide you with a false sense of security.

1. What are the types of Cisco UCS backup policies? (Choose two answers.)

a. All Configuration

b. Incremental backup

c. Full State

d. Differential backup

2. A UCS administrator deleted two service profiles by mistake. Now you need to restore them from your daily backup. What type of backup will have service profiles?

a. All Configuration

b. Full State

c. Logical Configuration

d. System Configuration

3. What are the two import types supported by the Cisco UCS Manager? (Choose two answers.)

a. Merge

b. Incremental

c. Differentiator

d. Replace

4. You cannot use Auto Install to upgrade the infrastructure components to one version of Cisco UCS and upgrade the chassis and server components to a different version.

a. True

b. False

5. You cannot cancel a server firmware upgrade process after you complete the configuration in the Install Server Firmware wizard because the Cisco UCS Manager applies the changes immediately.

a. True

b. False