cisco one enterprise cloud (ucsd) hands-on lab

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Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud (UCSD) Hands-on Lab

18 may 2016

Michael Dupont, Consulting Systems EngineerDavid Lefebvre, Consulting Systems Engineer

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There is a lot of material in this hands-on lab. Don’t worry if you don’t have time to complete it. We won’t tell your co-workers .


UCS

Manager

Cloud Services

Ecosystem of

Service Providers

Sin

gle

Lic

ense

Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite

3

UCS

Central

UCS Director

Prime Service Catalog

APIC

Intercloud

Fabric for

Business

Multi-Vendor Compute, Storage, and Networking

UCS Performance Manager

EnergyWise

IMC

Supervisor

Cisco

Metapod*

Virtual Application

Container Service

(VACS)

* - Out of the Box Integration of OpenStack into Prime Service Catalog is road mapped


Lab Architecture


Agenda• Scenario 1: Unified Dashboard Overview

• Scenario 2: Add ESXi Host and Enable vSAN Workflows & HyperConverged Infrastructure

• Scenario 3: Self-Service Catalog for Predefined Workflow

• Scenario 4: Application Container Deployment

• Scenario 5: Bare Metal Provisioning using Bare Metal Agent Server

• Scenario 6: Analytics and Reports

• Scenario 7: Executing Predefined Workflows

• Scenario 8: Rebranding the UCS Director User Interface


Scenario 1: Unified Dashboard Overview• Purpose: introduction

• Why: to see how easy it is

• Steps:

Log in as an admin and click on the various menus to see where things are at


Scenario 2: Add ESXi Host and Enable vSAN Workflows

• Purpose: to run setup steps for a new host and for HyperConverged using VSAN

• Why: to get some hands-on with running catalogs and with infrastructure management

• Steps

Run the “Add ESXi host” catalog as demouser

Run the “Enable vSAN” catalog as demouser

Perform some additional configuration on the POD in the Converged Infrastructure view


Scenario 3: Self-Service Catalog for Predefined Workflow

• Purpose: to see how self-service works for basic VM requests

• Why: to understand what an end-user would see

• Steps

Submit a VM request without approval using demouser

Submit a VM request as demouser with approval by admin

Note: users and groups have already been configured.

Users and groups, both Local as well as LDAP integrated are managed in the Administration menu.


Scenario 4: Application Container Deployment• Purpose: to see how to provision multiple VMs across several network segments

• Why: for teams that want to be able to deploy environments from a template

• Steps

Provision a new container as demouser

Examine the template used for the container creation


Scenario 5: Bare Metal Provisioning using Bare Metal Agent

• Purpose: to see how to deploy an OS to a bare metal machine

• Why: the time consuming, physical server installation process, can be automated

• Steps

Enable VMRC to monitor the installation (new PXE request has already been done)

View the settings of Bare Metal Agent

Create a new PXE request (can be automated using workflow engine)

Change the network configuration of the host from the PXE VLAN to the production VLAN

Note: in the lab we are doing Bare Metal against a VM but all the same concepts apply to a physical server


Scenario 6: Analytics and Reports• Purpose: to take a look at the reporting capabilities of UCSD

• Why: useful for visibility and troubleshooting

• Steps

Run several tasks in order to populate data (not something you have to do in a real implementation)

View the VMWare map Reports

Open the Stack View for a VM


Scenario 7: Executing Predefined Workflows• Purpose: an introduction to UCS Director workflows

• Why: UCS Director’s orchestration engine is very powerful with over 1000 out-of-box tasks and the gateway to automating your infrastructure

• Steps

Run the workflow “Create vLan in dCloud”

Run the workflow “Create SP and Power On”


Scenario 8: Rebranding the UCS Director User Interface

• Purpose: to change the look of UCSD

• Why: so you can use your own logos to make the portal your own

• Steps

Change the logo of the logon screen in Administration/User Interface Settings

Change the theme style

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Access Cisco Communitieshttps://communities.cisco.com/

Select UCS DirectorScroll down and select UCS Director

Go to UCSTechnology

Cisco Data Center & Cloud Community

Compute & Storage

Unified Computing System (UCS)

Cisco Developed UCS Integrations

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