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Chapter 1 Ensuring Required Prerequisites Are Ready-to-Go
Checking Required Prerequisites
Setting Up Cisco UCS Manager Pools
Cisco UCS Manager utilizes different types of pools to control assignment of unique identifiers (such as
UUIDs, MACs and WWNs) to blade servers. These pools must be created and assigned to Service
Profiles. You need to create the following pools:
• Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) Suffix Pool—Used to uniquely identify each blade server.
• Media Access Control (MAC) Address Pool—Used to assign a unique MAC address to each vNIC
assigned to a blade.
• WWNN (World Wide Node Name) Pool—Assigned to a node in a Fibre Channel fabric, and used
to assign unique WWNNs to each blade in a range that will allow appropriate LUN access
• WWPN (World Wide Port Names) Pool—Assigned to specific ports in a Fibre Channel fabric, and
used to assign unique WWPNs to each blade in a range that will allow appropriate LUN access
For instructions on creating the pools, see Cisco UCS Manager documentation on Cisco.com.
Preparing VMware Software
vCenter O/S support is shown in Table 1-1.
Key:
No = Not supported
Yes = Supported
Yes
1
= Supported from Update 1
Yes
2
= Supported from Update 2
Yes
3
= Supported from Update 3
Supported Installation Media for ESXi
Provisioning of the ESXi Hypervisor OS always uses the first local drive installed in the blade. Cisco
IAC supports installation of ESXi to local disks only (not over a SAN).
VMware Installation Requirements
The following VMware software should be installed:
• vSphere PowerCLI on the Process Orchestrator server to support the activities for adding a new
ESXi host to a cluster.
Table 1-1 OS Customization Support
OS Release
vCenter Version
55.15.5
Windows Server 2012 Yes
2
Yes
1
Yes
Windows Server 2008 R2 Yes Yes Yes
RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.x Yes Yes Yes
CentOS 5x No Yes
3
Yes
2
CentOS 6x No Yes
3
Yes
2
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Yes
2
Yes
1
Yes