Cisco UCS Workshop

Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) is a next-generation data center platform that unites computing, network, storage access and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership and increase business agility. Learn how you can leverage the power of Cisco UCS to unify network, computing and virtualization resources with WWT’s Cisco UCS Training. WWT provides both on-site and remote Cisco UCS training to accommodate the needs of your team.

What you will learn

WWT’s one-day, hands-on Cisco UCS training class will demonstrate the advanced functionality of the UCS environment and show you how you can use UCS to consolidate and centralize your server environments. Attendees will build a functional data center system using Cisco UCS components.

The training will include:

A complete overview of Cisco UCS hardware and architecture, including an in-depth discussion of UCS integration with network and SAN design
In-depth discussion of management of virtualized infrastructure as well as the interrelationship, physical and logical connectivity of data center components
UCS performance characteristics, sizing, migration process, design success criteria and ROI calculations
Hands-on labs:
1. Configuration of Cisco UCS from the ground up (a completely new UCS system will be designed, set up and configured from scratch by the class)
2. UCS manager familiarization
3. Pools, templates and policies
4. Service profile creation (boot from local disk and installation of ESX 5.x)
5. Service profile creation (boot from SAN and installation of ESX 5.x)
6. Service profile template creation
7. Configuration of organization- and role-based access within UCS