UCS Tech Talk: Cisco Standalone C-Series Integrated management Controller (IMC) 2.0
Join Cisco Technical Marketing Engineers and other data center management experts for a discussion on the features and capabilities of the Cisco Integrated Management Controller v2.0. This new software release is available on our C22 M3, C24 M3, C220 M3 and C240 M3 platform and introduces new innovative capabilities which will enable Cisco Server administrators to be more efficient. We will also have a special guest share a publicly available Python Library that he designed to interact with C-Series servers and exploit capabilities associated with CIMC 2.0.
When: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 from 8-9AM PST
Moderator:
Eric Williams , Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco
Guests:
Jeff Foster, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco
Rob Horner, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco
Links Relevant to this session:
Cisco Standalone C-Series IMC 2.0 Announcement: https://communities.cisco.com/communi...
Cisco UCS C-Series Servers: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products...
Cisco UCS Integrations: http://communities.cisco.com/ucsinteg...
To learn more about Cisco UCS Manager and Standalone C-Series:
Cisco UCS Communities: http://communities.cisco.com/ucs
Cisco UCS Manager: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/p...
Cisco UCS C-Series Servers: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products...
Cisco UCS Management (Blog): http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/cis...
Cisco IMC 2.0 Tech Talk Clickable Timestamps
1. Overview:
1:01 I know we had a Tech Talk last month about C-Series and it's use cases around Big Data, but let's briefly recap about some of the use cases about why someone would use a Cisco C-Series server?
1:38 What are some of the use cases?
2:20 Why would someone use C-Series outside of being managed by UCSM.
3:23 For those who are not as familiar with that IMC is, can you give a brief history of what it is, different names for it, and the basic functionality? What is the difference between cisco 1.0 and 2.0? Is it a different product?
5:30 Let's get into the features (New features or feature enhancements) - Could you tell me more about the new features and enhancements?
6:36 And platforms support Cisco IMC 2.0?
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Section #2:
7:33 You had mentioned networking as an enhancement area - what are some of the new features here?
7:52 So let's take these features in that order. Tell me more about the IPv6 implementation:
9:29 OK, what about Dynamic DNS
11:06 And ping from the CIMC, give me a use case there
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Section 3: Storage
12:00 Moving on to storage configuration... Could you explain a bit more about these enhancements?
14:23 So what about the ability to create virtual drives
15:50 Demo #1: WebUI - Highlight new WebUI features including XML API helper and then configure a virtual drive using PowerTool.
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Section 4: Precision Boot (8 Minutes -- Target 8:31AM PT)
21:23 Tell me more about this 'Precision Boot', how this is defined, and what this means for customers (First-level Boot, second-level boot, precision boot)
24:05 Demo #2: Precision Boot (2-3 Minutes)
Question: That sounds pretty powerful, but how easy is this to configure?
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Section 5: KVM enhancement
27:20 Question: What's new with the KVM in this release?
Chat, DVR Capability, Power Controls, Last Crash recorder
30:50 Demo: Crash Recording
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Section 6: Other features
34:34 So there are some other features that are included in this release that I am aware of - could you tell me a bit more about the monitoring features we added (SNMP, Syslog, Fault Engine)
37:16 What about the security enhancements included in this release... Tell me more about these? (Secure CIMC, BIOS Signing, UEFI Secure Boot, TPM Inventory)
43:58 Python Library Demo(PyCIMC) with Rob Horner
Resource Links:
UCS Communities:
https://communities.cisco.com/ucs
Cisco Developed Integrations Community:
https://communities.cisco.com/ucsinte...
XML API Programmers Guide 2.0:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs...
HUU-NI Utilities:
https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DO...
Rob's GitHub Link:
http://github.com/rohorner/pycimc.git