Cisco UCS Manager CLI Configuration Guide, Release 2

Cisco UCS Manager CLI Configuration Guide, Release 2.0

First Published: September 06, 2011 Last Modified: September 04, 2012

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CONTENTS

Preface PART I CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2

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Preface xxxi Audience xxxi Conventions xxxi Related Cisco UCS Documentation xxxiii Documentation Feedback xxxiii Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request xxxiii

Introduction 1

New and Changed Information 3 New and Changed Information for this Release 3

Overview of Cisco Unified Computing System 9 About Cisco Unified Computing System 9 Unified Fabric 10 Fibre Channel over Ethernet 11 Link-Level Flow Control 11 Priority Flow Control 11 Server Architecture and Connectivity 12 Overview of Service Profiles 12 Network Connectivity through Service Profiles 12 Configuration through Service Profiles 12 Service Profiles that Override Server Identity 13 Service Profiles that Inherit Server Identity 14 Service Profile Templates 15 Policies 15 Configuration Policies 15

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Boot Policy 15 Chassis Discovery Policy 16 Dynamic vNIC Connection Policy 19 Ethernet and Fibre Channel Adapter Policies 19 Global Cap Policy 20 Host Firmware Package 21 IPMI Access Profile 21 Local Disk Configuration Policy 22 Management Firmware Package 22 Management Interfaces Monitoring Policy 23 Network Control Policy 23 Power Control Policy 24 Power Policy 24 Quality of Service Policy 25 Rack Server Discovery Policy 25 Server Autoconfiguration Policy 25 Server Discovery Policy 25 Server Inheritance Policy 26 Server Pool Policy 26 Server Pool Policy Qualifications 26 vHBA Template 27 VM Lifecycle Policy 27 vNIC Template 27 vNIC/vHBA Placement Policies 28 Operational Policies 28 Fault Collection Policy 28 Flow Control Policy 29 Maintenance Policy 29 Scrub Policy 29 Serial over LAN Policy 30 Statistics Collection Policy 30 Statistics Threshold Policy 30 Pools 31 Server Pools 31 MAC Pools 31

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CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4

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UUID Suffix Pools 32 WWN Pools 32 Management IP Pool 33 Traffic Management 33 Oversubscription 33 Oversubscription Considerations 33 Guidelines for Estimating Oversubscription 34 Pinning 35 Pinning Server Traffic to Server Ports 35 Guidelines for Pinning 36 Quality of Service 37 System Classes 37 Quality of Service Policy 38 Flow Control Policy 38 Opt-In Features 38 Stateless Computing 38 Multi-Tenancy 39 Virtualization in Cisco UCS 40 Overview of Virtualization 40 Overview of Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender 41 Virtualization with Network Interface Cards and Converged Network Adapters 41 Virtualization with a Virtual Interface Card Adapter 41

Overview of Cisco UCS Manager 43 About Cisco UCS Manager 43 Tasks You Can Perform in Cisco UCS Manager 44 Tasks You Cannot Perform in Cisco UCS Manager 46 Cisco UCS Manager in a High Availability Environment 46

Overview of Cisco UCS Manager CLI 47 Managed Objects 47 Command Modes 47 Object Commands 49 Complete a Command 50 Command History 50

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