Terminology UUID (Universally Unique IDentirifer) Used for Service Profile, Blade, Licensing IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) Standard developed by Intel in 1998 to allow complete hardware control of a server with no or non-functioning OS CIMC (Cisco Integrated Management Controller) Cisco's feature-rich application suite built on Java to allow access to the IPMI BMC/IBMC (Integrated/ Baseboard Management Controller) On Each Blade and IO module BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) Identifies and defines how the hardware such as CPU/RAM/Video/etc is to be configured and bootstraps to the OS) UEFI (Unifed Extensible Firmware Interface) Specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware UCS Topology  Setting UP UCS If you had an existing configuration in a LAB environment you could issue the command FI-A connect local-mgmt erase configuration (yes/no) yes FI-B connect local-mgmt erase configuration (yes/no) yes Next on FI-A it will ask   It will apply the configuration to the FI. Once completed and configured FI-B you can use the Java interface FI-B Setup  Log into 192.168.1.100 (VIP address) Look first at the Chassis Discovery Policy This will set the amount of links you want the IO Module in the 5108 Chassis to the FI  to a Port-Channel. If you choose 4 Links it will not discovery chassis fight 1 or 2 links only. This doesn't include the Northbound links from the FI's to the rest to of the LAN..... Rack Server Discovery Policy (C Series Discovery) Power Policy Non-Redundant Will use all power supply, most power but no redundancy N+1 3 Power Supplies plus +1 extra Mac Address Table Aging Never (Default in UCS 1.3) Mode Default: 4 Hours ( 14500 seconds) Other: Specify Global Power Allocation Policy Manual Blade Level CAP Policy Drive Chassis Group CAP Default Setup SEL (Security Event Log)  Set the Chassis Discovery Policy to 4 Links and Save Changes Nexus go to the FI tab  This will popup a warning dialog box  Unified Port Setup  You would move the slider bar to where you want the FC ports to start and then assign ports 1-6 as Server Ports and Ports 7-10 as Ethernet Uplink ports. Hit finish and the FI will then reboot (it will not warn you again that the will reboot) You would need to do this individually on FI-A and FI-B and what for the reboot process. Hint: If you have an older chassis with 2104's and buy a new chassis with 2204's and select pourt-channeling under the "Chassis Discovery Policy" it will not discovery the chassis with the 2104's you would have to purchase newer IO modules for the older chassis. |
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