Efficiency made easy with Cisco UCS X-Collection powered by Intersight

September 21, 2022

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Within the first weblog of this sequence, we noticed simply how simple it was to deploy a X210c Compute Node with Cisco Intersight. Final week, we confirmed how X-Collection can ship excellent efficiency for Oracle databases. Immediately, we’re going to go a bit deeper on configuration and present how simple it’s to get nice efficiency with little or no effort.

Configuration

All of it begins with a server profile template. In the event you’re new to UCS, it’s simple to arrange swimming pools, insurance policies, and templates in Cisco Intersight. Our consultants have already executed a lot of the be just right for you because the defaults work extraordinarily effectively in most conditions. With Intersight, you need to use the API to utterly automate server configuration and deployment. Or use our GUI and have it stroll you thru all the things it’s worthwhile to configure administration, storage, and community insurance policies.

Let’s watch Technical Advertising Engineer Scott Garee undergo making a service profile template.

Rinse & repeat

As soon as the insurance policies and swimming pools have been created, you’ll be able to reuse them in your subsequent server deployment. You may as well replicate and modify for various use circumstances and functions. An important instance of that is networking defaults by working system – see @3:21 of the video for particulars. Coming quickly, you’ll be capable of create one coverage for VMware infrastructure after which copy it and alter that one entry for a naked steel Home windows or Linux server. These defaults come from the 1000’s of hours Cisco engineers have spent on efficiency testing and tuning. Beforehand, these greatest practices have been solely revealed in Cisco Validated Designs. Now they’re included into Cisco Intersight. You’ll be able to leverage our experience to get nice efficiency utilizing in-built defaults.