UCS Central Installation: 1.1(2a)

Documenting the UCS Central installation of 1.1(2a) (so I can afterwards document the upgrade procedure to 1.2(1a)).  I elected to install UCS Central via the .iso onto a standalone rackmount server.  The installation guide suggests installing UCS Central on a VM, but I have a spare server that I can dedicate for this purpose.

Whoops... I had not logged into the server in some time, so ensure that you have the appropriate drive configuration set up.  Go ahead and take a look at the installation prerequisites before you begin:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-central/install-upgrade/1-1/b_UCSC_Installation_and_Upgrade_Guide_11/b_UCSC_Installation_and_Upgrade_Guide_11_chapter_010.html

Let's try this again.

Better. :]

...And that's pretty much it :]  You can check out the first boot up below:

I am going to setup a new standalone configuration as this is a new UCS Central server in my environment.  The installer walks you through some of your basic "new server" questions - IP, mask, gateway, hostname, DNS, passwords.  You can also elect to enable Statistics Collection.  According to the User Manual: "Cisco UCS Central collects and aggregates statistics data on Network, Temperature, Cooling and Power from the registered Cisco UCS domains."

Nonetheless, after you make it through the install, the UCS Central server reboots to apply the configuration that was specified.  You can then either log in from the CLI, or browse to the IP that was specified and check out the web interface (the login screen is very similar to the C-Series CIMC interface).

Before I do any further configuration/UCSM integration/posts on cool things you can do with UCS Central, I am going to document the upgrade procedure to 1.2(1a).