Cisco Cisco UCS B230 M1 Blade Server Weißbuch
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Audience
The target audience for this guide includes sales engineers, field consultants, professional services staff, IT
managers, partner engineering staff, and customers who want to deploy Microsoft SQL Server on iSCSI using
Cisco Data Center VM-FEX.
managers, partner engineering staff, and customers who want to deploy Microsoft SQL Server on iSCSI using
Cisco Data Center VM-FEX.
Hardware and Software Requirements
Cisco Unified Computing System Overview
Cisco UCS is a set of preintegrated data center components, including blade servers, adapters, fabric
interconnects, and fabric extenders, that are integrated within a common embedded management system. This
approach results in far fewer system components and much better manageability, operation efficiencies, and more
flexibility than comparable data center platforms.
interconnects, and fabric extenders, that are integrated within a common embedded management system. This
approach results in far fewer system components and much better manageability, operation efficiencies, and more
flexibility than comparable data center platforms.
Main Differentiating Technologies
The main differentiating technologies described here are what make Cisco UCS unique and give it advantages
over competing offerings. The technologies presented here are high level, and the discussions do not include the
technologies (such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet [FCoE]) that support these high-level elements.
The main differentiating technologies described here are what make Cisco UCS unique and give it advantages
over competing offerings. The technologies presented here are high level, and the discussions do not include the
technologies (such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet [FCoE]) that support these high-level elements.
Unified Fabric
Unified fabric can dramatically reduce the number of network adapters, blade-server switches, cables, and
management touch points by passing all network traffic to parent fabric interconnects, where it can be prioritized,
processed, and managed centrally. This approach improves performance, agility, and efficiency and dramatically
reduces the number of devices that need to be powered, cooled, secured, and managed.
Unified fabric can dramatically reduce the number of network adapters, blade-server switches, cables, and
management touch points by passing all network traffic to parent fabric interconnects, where it can be prioritized,
processed, and managed centrally. This approach improves performance, agility, and efficiency and dramatically
reduces the number of devices that need to be powered, cooled, secured, and managed.
Embedded Multirole Management
Cisco UCS Manager is a centralized management application that is embedded on the fabric switch. Cisco UCS
Manager controls all Cisco UCS elements within a single redundant management domain. These elements include
all aspects of system configuration and operation, eliminating the need to use multiple, separate element managers
for each system component. Massive reduction in the number of management modules and consoles and in the
proliferation of agents resident on all the hardware (which must be separately managed and updated) are important
deliverables of Cisco UCS. Cisco UCS Manager, using role-based access and visibility, helps enable cross-
function communication efficiency, promoting collaboration between data center roles for increased productivity.
Cisco UCS Manager is a centralized management application that is embedded on the fabric switch. Cisco UCS
Manager controls all Cisco UCS elements within a single redundant management domain. These elements include
all aspects of system configuration and operation, eliminating the need to use multiple, separate element managers
for each system component. Massive reduction in the number of management modules and consoles and in the
proliferation of agents resident on all the hardware (which must be separately managed and updated) are important
deliverables of Cisco UCS. Cisco UCS Manager, using role-based access and visibility, helps enable cross-
function communication efficiency, promoting collaboration between data center roles for increased productivity.
Cisco Extended Memory Technology
Significantly enhancing the available memory capacity of some Cisco UCS servers, Cisco Extended Memory
Technology helps increase performance for demanding virtualization and large-data-set workloads. Data centers
can now deploy very high virtual machine densities on individual servers as well as provide resident memory
capacity for databases that need only two processors but can dramatically benefit from more memory. The high-
memory dual in-line memory module (DIMM) slot count also lets users more cost-effectively scale this capacity
using smaller, less costly DIMMs.
Technology helps increase performance for demanding virtualization and large-data-set workloads. Data centers
can now deploy very high virtual machine densities on individual servers as well as provide resident memory
capacity for databases that need only two processors but can dramatically benefit from more memory. The high-
memory dual in-line memory module (DIMM) slot count also lets users more cost-effectively scale this capacity
using smaller, less costly DIMMs.
Cisco Data Center VM-FEX Virtualization Support and Virtualization Adapter
With Cisco Data Center VM-FEX, virtual machines have virtual links that allow them to be managed in the same
way as physical links. Virtual links can be centrally configured and managed without the complexity of traditional
systems, which interpose multiple switching layers in virtualized environments. I/O configurations and network
With Cisco Data Center VM-FEX, virtual machines have virtual links that allow them to be managed in the same
way as physical links. Virtual links can be centrally configured and managed without the complexity of traditional
systems, which interpose multiple switching layers in virtualized environments. I/O configurations and network