Cisco Cisco UCS 6248UP 48-Port Fabric Interconnect User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Executive Summary

  3
• Introduction

  3
• iSCSI

  3
• Cisco Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender Technology

  4
• Audience

  5
• Hardware and Software Requirements

  5
• Cisco Unified Computing System Overview

  5
• Cisco Unified Computing System Components

  6
• VMware ESX 5.0 Architecture Overview

  11
• Microsoft Windows 2008 Release 2 Overview

  12
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Overview

  13
• Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Deployment Model on Cisco UCS

  13
• Storage Requirements for Microsoft SQL Server Database Deployment in Virtualized Environments

  17
• Advantages of iSCSI Storage Implementation on the Guest Virtual Machine and VMware ESX Host

  17
• Design Topology

  18
• Cisco UCS and iSCSI Storage Network

  18
• Microsoft SQL Data Network and Storage Network vPC Mapping

  19
• Cisco UCS Quality-of-Service System and Policy

  21
• NetApp Storage Configuration Overview

  25
• VMware ESX iSCSI Boot

  33
• Microsoft SQL Deployment Overview

  38
• Guest-Based iSCSI initiator on Cisco Data Center VM-FEX DVS

  38
• VMware ESX Host-Based iSCSI Initiator on VMware ESX vSwitch

  54
• Virtual Machine–Based iSCSI Initiator on VMware ESX vSwitch

  62
• Microsoft SQL Server Failover Cluster with Cisco Data Center VM-FEX DVS Solution

  71
• Physical and Logical Design

  72
• Software Initiator

  74
• Storage

  79
• Conclusion

  94
• References

  94