UCP Advisor
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Welcome to the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor (UCP Advisor) official documentation!
- Setting up your environment with deployment manager
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- The deployment manager walks you through the steps of preparing a new or existing VMware vCenter environment for deploying the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Advisor management software on a UCP system.
- Pre-installation
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- The UCP Advisor installation process is divided into four distinct phases. This document describes each phase.
- Installation and upgrade
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- Before you deploy Hitachi UCP Advisor, you must verify the prerequisites, complete the task checklist, configure the dependencies, and download the media kit.
- Overview
- UCP Advisor VM resource requirements
- Predeployment considerations
- Deploying UCP Advisor for UCP converged infrastructure (CI) system
- Deploying UCP Advisor for a UCP hyperconverged (HC) system
- Deploying UCP Advisor for a UCP rack-scale (RS) system
- Deploying UCP Advisor for a UCP 2000 system
- Deploying UCP Advisor for a UCP 4000 Cisco system
- Deploying UCP Advisor for a logical UCP system
- OS security updates
- Troubleshooting
- Uninstalling the UCP Advisor system
- Upgrading the UCP Advisor management software
- Unregistering UCP Advisor plugins and file cleanup
- Installing VMware ESXi 7.0
- ucp_adm utility
- Getting started
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- Hitachi UCP Advisor provides a single framework for managing diverse and distributed environments across the UCP system family.
- Managing UCP systems
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- Operations for managing UCP systems can only be performed by members of user groups that have been assigned the UCP Advisor Admin role.
- Managing compute nodes
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- You can view summary information for compute nodes across your environment and perform management operations, such as replacing a server, setting boot options, managing power settings, editing passwords, and launching remote consoles. You can also view vSAN datastores, event logs, and detailed information for CPUs, FRUs, fans, temperature, voltage, and memory.
- Compute inventory
- Filtering an inventory
- Replacing a compute server
- Setting a boot option
- Managing compute node power settings
- Modifying a chassis label
- Editing a compute node label
- Compute node locator ID (LID) lamp
- Upgrading compute firmware
- Editing the BMC password on a server
- Editing the BMC settings for Active Directory, NTP, and SNMP
- Resetting the BMC
- Adding and editing a server tag
- Adding and editing a local drive tag
- Accessing a server from a remote console
- Enabling Microsoft Active Directory on a Hitachi Advanced Server
- vSAN datastores
- Local drive slot numbering
- Managing storage resources
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- UCP Advisor dynamically allocates storage resources to virtual machines or hosts in the UCP Advisor environment.
- Managing Ethernet switches
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- You can view summary and detailed information for connected Ethernet switches in a UCP system and perform management actions on them, such as backing up and restoring switch configurations, upgrading firmware, and managing VLANS and ports.
- Managing Fibre Channel switches
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- You can view summary and detailed information for Fibre Channel switches in a UCP system and perform management operations. You can add, edit, or remove switches, back up and restore switch configurations, enable or disable switches, and manage switch zones, zone aliases, and zone configurations.
- Administering UCP Advisor
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- The Administration menu enables you to view and manage your license information, such as license type, system ID, and node counts. You can also view which features and functionality are available for your license type.
- Applying a license
- Using the UCP Advisor REST API
- Generating and downloading log files
- Generating a UCP system inventory report
- Enabling viewing and managing of inventory in linked UCP systems
- Configuring the UCP Advisor Gateway
- Configuring the UCP Advisor deployment manager
- Configuring the vCenter Server Appliance SSH login credentials
- Configuring vRealize Log Insight
- Configuring vRealize Orchestrator
- Configuring the SCP server
- Configuring Tasks
- UCP Advisor CLI
- Configuring the firmware bundles list
- Configuring the maximum number of servers for parallel upgrade
- Initiating a High Availability failover
- Troubleshooting
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- Common problems and possible solutions are described in this module.
- Troubleshooting attach datastore issues
- Troubleshooting LUN path issues when attaching a datastore
- Troubleshooting issues with AD, SNMP, and NTP settings
- Troubleshooting BIOS settings not being preserved after firmware upgrade
- Troubleshooting Ethernet firmware upgrade issues
- Troubleshooting Ethernet switch onboarding issues
- Troubleshooting Ethernet Manage tab display issues
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel firmware upgrade issues
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel switch functionality issues
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel restore issues
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel Add or Edit issues
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel WWN display issues
- Troubleshooting a license reverting to Trial version after upgrading the software
- Troubleshooting log file generation issues
- Troubleshooting report or log bundle download issues
- Troubleshooting server onboarding issues
- Troubleshooting OS provisioning issues
- Troubleshooting slow performance
- Troubleshooting switch backup and upgrade issues
- Troubleshooting bare metal server PXE boot failure when OS provisioning
- Troubleshooting UCP systems not loading in vCenter with external PSC
- Troubleshooting vRealize Log Insight configuration issues
- Troubleshooting vRealize Log Insight SSL certificate issues
- Troubleshooting vRealize Orchestrator
- Manually unregistering a UCP Advisor Flex plugin
- Using other certificates
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- You can import an external certificate or create a self-signed certificate to replace the default certificate .
- Manually identifying PCI card firmware versions
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- You can manually identify the PCI cards on a compute node that is running ESXi so that you can identify the version of the card firmware.