- Preface
- Introduction
- UCS Central Implementation: Approaches and Challenges
- Small Cisco UCS Central Environment
- Medium Cisco UCS Central Environment
- Large Cisco UCS Central Environment
- Sizing and Scaling Considerations
- Domain Groups
- Registration
- Migrating Brownfield to Greenfield
- Organization
- Understanding Policy Differences in Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco UCS Central
- Configuration
- Deploying Global VLANs and VSANs
- Pools
- Authentication
- Firmware Management
- Backup and Import
- High Availability
- General Best Practices
- UCS Central Internal Processes Defined
- UCS Central Communications - Required Ports
- Creating a Testing & Development Environment
- Online Resources
Creating a Testing & Development Environment
Creating a Testing and Development Environment
You can create your own testing and development environment. We recommend setting this up offline, thereby creating your own safe environment.
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Download UCS Emulators and install in your test lab.
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Download UCS Central and install in your test lab.
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Register test emulators to test Cisco UCS Central.
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Import operational configuration export, from Cisco UCS Manager, or build Cisco UCS Central to match production.
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Import operational configuration export, from Cisco UCS Manager, or build UCS domains to match production.
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Test scenarios and operations, such as migrating local service profiles to global service profiles.
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Test automation and the PowerTools Scripts against the API.
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