Who should attend
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Systems Administrators and Engineers
- Technical Solutions Architects
- Systems Integrators
- Channel Partners
- Value-Added Resellers
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:
- Basic knowledge of Cisco routing and switching
- Basic knowledge of Cisco Unified Computing Systems
- Basic knowledge of servers and storage
- Familiarity with Cisco UCS and Hyperflex
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Understand the B-Series and C-Series product line similarities and differences
- Claiming resources in Intersight
- Managing UCS domains in Intersight
- Describe the Intersight support for C-Series standalone and UCS managed architectures
- Understand the process for upgrading B-Series and C-Series Firmware with Intersight
- Administering service profiles, pools, and policies with Intersight running UCS natively
- Understanding RBAC with Active Directory integration
- Administering backup and restores in UCS Manager
- Learn and discuss the various management tools for Cisco UCS including Intersight
- Perform basic troubleshooting of B-Series and C-Series in normal operations with UCSM and Intersight
- Describe how to get started with Intersight programmability
Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: UCS Infrastructure Components with Intersight
- Cisco UCS X-Series, Use Cases, and Components
- Introducing Cisco Intersight Managed Mode
- Describing Cisco UCS C-Series Servers
- Describing Next Gen Cisco X-Series Servers
- Gen 4 and future deployments
- Integrating with earlier Generations
- UCS Central use cases with Intersight
Module 2: Administering Cisco UCS with Intersight
- Managed Mode Resources Pools
- Configuring Compute Node LAN Connectivity
- Configuring Compute Node SAN Connectivity
- Managed Mode Network Policies
- Managed Mode Storage Policies
- Creating Identity and Resource Pools
- Creating Server Profiles
- Creating Server Profile Templates and Deriving Server Profiles
- Managing Server Profiles
- Installing OS onto blades
- Troubleshooting Cisco UCS X/B/C-Series Configuration
- Troubleshooting Cisco UCS X/B/C-Series Operation
- Managing and Upgrading Cisco UCS X/B/C-Series Firmware
Module 3: Administering UCS Management Tools with Intersight
- Describing Cisco UCS User Interfaces
- Exploring Intersight User Interfaces
- Describing Cisco UCS Management Framework & Features
- Describing Cisco UCS Hyperflex
- Describing Intersight Services for Terraform
- Describing Intersight Orchestrator