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Cisco UCS System Monitoring
The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager can detect all system faults. Normally, system faults are categorized as critical, major, minor, and warnings. Cisco recommends that you monitor all critical and major severity faults. As in Cisco NX-OS, the Cisco UCS supports different monitoring protocols, such as standard syslog, SNMP, NetFlow, Call Home, and SPAN…
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Cisco Unified Computing Infrastructure Monitoring
Today data center architectures are transitioning to highly virtualized, highly dynamic, internal cloud forms. Monitoring activity from the computing perspective is an essential source of operational intelligence. Monitoring tools must provide sufficient capacity and flexibility to handle rapidly growing traffic volumes and a dynamic computing resource. Cisco UCS Monitoring enables the data center administrator to…
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Named VSANs Configurations – Cisco Unified Computing Systems Overview
In a cluster configuration, a named VSAN can be configured to be accessible only to the Fibre Channel uplink ports on one fabric interconnect or to the Fibre Channel uplink ports on both fabric interconnects. You must configure each named VSAN with an FCoE VLAN 599ID. This property determines which VLAN is used for transporting…
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UCS SAN Connectivity – Cisco Unified Computing Systems Overview
The Cisco Unified Computing System model supports different methods to connect to centralized storage. The first storage connectivity method uses a pure Ethernet IP network to connect the servers to both their user community and the shared storage array. Communication between the servers and storage over IP can be accomplished by using a Small Computer…
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Cisco UCS Storage
The Cisco UCS support storage types are as follows: Direct-attached storage (DAS): This is the storage available inside a server and is directly connected to the system through the motherboard within a parallel SCSI implementation. DAS is commonly described as captive storage. Devices in a captive storage topology do not have direct access to the…
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QoS System Classes – Cisco Unified Computing Systems Overview
The Cisco UCS uses Data Center Ethernet (DCE) to handle all traffic inside a Cisco UCS domain. This industry standard enhancement to Ethernet divides the bandwidth of the Ethernet pipe into eight virtual lanes. Two virtual lanes are reserved for internal system and management traffic, and you can configure QoS for the other six virtual…
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UCS Service Profile Templates – Cisco Unified Computing Systems Overview
With a service profile template, you can quickly create several service profiles with the same basic parameters, such as the number of vNICs and vHBAs, and with identity information drawn from the same pools. For example, if you need several service profiles with similar values to configure servers to host database software, you can create…
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Power control policy – Cisco Unified Computing Systems Overview
Power control policy: The Cisco UCS uses the priority set in the power control policy along with the blade type and configuration to calculate the initial power allocation for each blade within a chassis. During normal operation, the active blades within a chassis can borrow power from idle blades within the same chassis. If all…
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Service Profiles – Cisco Unified Computing Systems Overview
Every server that is provisioned in the Cisco Unified Computing System is specified by a service profile. A service profile is a software definition of a server and its LAN and SAN network connectivity; in other words, a service profile defines a single server and its storage and networking characteristics. Service profiles are stored in…
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IP Pools – Cisco Unified Computing Systems Overview
IP pools are collections of IP addresses that do not have a default purpose. You can create IPv4 or IPv6 address pools in the Cisco UCS Manager to do the following: Replace the default management IP pool ext-mgmt for servers that have an associated service profile. The Cisco UCS Manager reserves each block of IP…
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