Cisco UCS Links to help you out of the box

[scotthan]

Here's some links that I like to send out to people who have just unboxed their UCS system. What links do you recommend ?

First place to bookmark is http://www.ciscoquicklinks.com - maintained by Dan on our team.  Has ballooned to thousands of links, but you can almost always find what you need there.

Official UCS Documentation - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/overview/guide/UCS_roadmap.html

UCS Configuration Guides - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10281/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html

Software downloads:

                - UCS Infrastructure - http://www.cisco.com/cisco/pub/software/portal/select.html?&mdfid=283612660&flowid=22121&softwareid=283655658

                - B Series Blades - http://www.cisco.com/cisco/pub/software/portal/select.html?&mdfid=283853163&flowid=25821&softwareid=283655681

                - UCS Drivers - http://www.cisco.com/cisco/pub/software/portal/select.html?&mdfid=283862063&flowid=25886&softwareid=283853158

UCS Troubleshooting Guide  - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ts/guide/UCSTroubleshooting.html

UCS Firmware upgrade guides - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10281/prod_installation_guides_list.html

[tobranno]

I think another good resource for people getting started with UCS out of the box is this series of "how to" videos that our engineering team has put together.  Hands on demos that zoom in on various aspects of server and IO configuration:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/ps10265/ucs_advantage_video_library.html

enjoy!