The Cisco UCS Fast Path is a 2 day intensive installation technical training course targeted at engineers who are currently experienced in deploying non-Cisco standalone Intel architecture rack or blade servers. 

The goal of this course is to provide engineers with hands-on experience based on labs and an in-depth understanding of Cisco servers based on Intel architecture, so that they will be in a position to successfully install Cisco UCS. 

Objectives

After finishing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the Cisco C series standalone servers physical architecture
• Provision and configure LAN and SAN Connectivity in the CIMC on C series standalone servers
• Describe the CIMC, host upgrade utility and configuration utility on the C series standalone servers
• Describe the Cisco B series blade servers physical architecture
• Provision and configure LAN and SAN Connectivity on the B series servers
• Provision resource pools, service profiles and service profile templates in Cisco UCS Manager
• Describe how the Cisco UCS C series integration is done

Importance

The course is of importance to all engineers involved in deploying Cisco UCS products.

Target Audience

The Cisco UCS Fast Path Course is applicable to experienced engineers within Cisco Partners and Customers, who are currently working with non-Cisco servers and seek the ability to deploy Cisco UCS.

Prerequsite Knowledge

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:

• Basic Computer Literacy 
• Knowledge of basic i386 architecture
• Knowledge of basic LAN components and functions
• Knowledge of basic SAN components and functions

Course Outline

Introduction and Intel Architecture

Lesson 1-2: UCS C series physical architecture 

Lesson 1-2: Provisioning LAN and SAN Connectivity in the CIMC

Lesson 1-3: C series Initial connectivity and configuration

Lesson 1-4: C-Series, SCU, HUU, CIMC overview

Lesson 2-1: B series physical architecture

Lesson 2-2: Implementing cisco UCS B series LAN connectivity

Lesson 2-3: Implementing cisco UCS B series SAN connectivity

Lesson 2-4: Initial connectivity and configuration of B series cluster

Lesson 2-5: B Series, chassis and blade discovery, IP management pool

Lesson 3-1: Cisco UCS B Series, Organisations and Access

Lesson 3-2: Provisioning LAN Networking

Lesson 3-3: Provisioning SAN Networking

Lesson 4-1: Provisioning resource pool in Cisco UCS Manager

Lesson 4-2: Provision service profile with expert wizard

Lesson 4-3: Provision service profiles from templates

Lesson 4-4: Cisco UCS B Series, Policies

Lesson 4-5: UCS C Series, Integration