NEXUS 9KCONFIG

VSPHERE SETUP

MDSCONFIGUCS CONFIG

V9000CONFIG

CABLING

VersaStack Build ProcessCisco UCS, VMware ESXi, IBM V9000

Datacenter Topology

IBM V9000 STORAGECISCO 9K MDS

CISCO 9K NXS

CISCO 6K FI

UCS Manager

CISCO UCS

Nexus 9K Config

• Enable Appropriate Features – LACP, UDID, VPC

• Create VLANs for IP Traffic – Native, Mngt, vMotion, VMServer

• Create Virtual Port Channel for Nexus(Po10)– VPC Domain, Trunk, Allow VLANS, VPC Peering

• Create Virtual Port Channel for Fiber Interconnect(Po13, Po14)– Port Channel, Jumbo frame, STP edge ports

Cisco 9k MDS Config

• Enable Appropriate Features

• Create VSAN for BE Storage

• Create VSAN for FE Storage

• Create Port Channel and assign ports to VSAN

• SAN Zoning for Hosts

Cisco 6K FI

• Connect two fabrics and perform initial setup

• Configure mngt address and cluster address

• Secondary fabric will automatically detect cluster

• Launch Cisco UCS Manager using Fabric Interconnect cluster address

UCS Manager Config

Enable Ethernet Ports

• If there are C series servers then enable ports as Server Ports

• Enable port 25 and 26 as uplink, these ports connect to Nexus

Enable Fiber Channel Ports

Create VSAN for FC Interfaces

Port Channels for FC Interfaces

Uplink Port Channels to Cisco Nexus Switches

Create VLANS

Configure Jumbo Frames

Service Profiles, Policies, Templates

• Service profile– logical view of a single blade server– Defines hardware, connectivity, policies, firmware, identity, high availability, external

management– Every physical compute node must have its own service profile– Mobile logical servers are most effective when booted from SAN – When the service profile is migrated the ne w node inherits same server properties

• Resource Pools– Stateless computing requires identifiers not hardware derived

• Policies– Policies defined within Service profiles allow specific criteria to be selected during

server deployment– Various policies includes VNIC, Firmware package, Disk, BIOS, Scrub, Template

Create MAC Pool

Create UUID Pool

Create Server Pool

Create WWNN Pools

Create WWPN Pools

Create Local Disk Policy

Enable CDP Policy

Power Control Policy

Create Server Qualification

Create Server BIOS Policy

Create vNIC/vHBA Placement Policy

Maintenance Policy

Create Boot Policy

Create vNIC Templates

Create vHBA Templates

Create Service Profile Templates

2. Storage Provisioning

3.Networking

4. SAN Connectivity

10.Server Assignment

11.Operational Policies

Create Service Profiles

V9000 Storage

• Perform Initial setup• Create Volumes

– Data store, Swap, Root• Map hosts to Volumes

– VM-Host-Infra-01, 02, 03, 04

ESX Installation and Setup

• Select the server, connect to KVM console

• In KVM console map virtual media

• Install ESXi to SAN bootable LUN

• Setup Management Networking

• vSphere Setup and ESXi configuration

• Install VMware Drivers for the Cisco Virtual Interface Card (VIC)

• Set Up VMkernel Ports and Virtual Switch

• Mount Required VMFS Datastores

Move VM Swap File

Configure vCenter

vCenter High availability

Add ESXi Hosts

Detailed Diagram

V9000 Cabling

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