- Part 1 – Setting up Fabric Interconnect, and UCS Manager settings
- Part 2 – Configuring Connectivity & Setting up the policies and Service Profiles
- Part 3 – Deploying ESXi via KVM onto FlashFlex (SDCard)
- Part 4 – Upgrading the Firmware
First off, huge thanks to the following posts by Rene Van Den Bedem and his Cisco UCS installation guide.
My aim here is not to rip off his posts, but to detail the process myself and use my own screenshots, as along the way, the setup was slightly different to Rene’s, such as the configuration needed for the SD Cards, and the lack of boot from SAN configuration.
Covered in Part 1;
- The hardware/software
- Cabling diagram
- Pre-Reqs
- Understanding Cisco’s policy based management
- Summary of Task List
- Setting up Fabric Interconnects
- Connecting to Cisco UCS Manager
The Hardware/Software Continue reading Deploy a Cisco UCS system – Part 1 – from scratch for VMware ESXi