UCP Advisor
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Advisor is a comprehensive cloud infrastructure management and automation software tool that enables IT agility and simplifies day 0-N operations for edge, core, and cloud environments.
The fourth-generation UCP Advisor accelerates application deployment and drastically simplifies converged and hyperconverged infrastructure deployment, configuration, lifecycle management, and ongoing operations with advanced policy-based automation and orchestration for private and hybrid cloud environments.
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- In Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Advisor 4.1, you can use the VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) to upgrade the firmware on all the compute nodes in a cluster when you install or upgrade firmware on new or existing hosts.
- Installation
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- Hitachi UCP Advisor is a management automation platform that simplifies IT management and orchestration for faster and easier deployment, delivering streamlined IT administration to virtualized, converged, and hyperconverged systems.
- Overview
- Predeployment considerations
- UCP Advisor VM resource requirements
- 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 logical UCP system
- OS security updates
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrading the UCP Advisor management software
- Getting started
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- Hitachi UCP Advisor provides a single framework for managing diverse and distributed environments across the UCP system family.
- Overview of UCP Advisor
- System architecture
- UCP Advisor features and functionality
- UCP Advisor environment
- Supported features and hardware
- Supported I/O cards
- Supported GPU cards
- Supported software
- UCP Advisor VM resource requirements
- Supported browser
- Accessing UCP Advisor
- Infrastructure spare pool
- Role-based access control
- Tasks
- Firewall configuration required by the management node
- Supported BIOS settings
- Server boot order reference
- 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. For more information about assigning roles, see Role-based access control.
- Adding a UCP system
- Editing a UCP system
- Refreshing a UCP system
- Deleting a UCP system
- Adding devices to a UCP system
- Managing UCP system devices
- Configuring a datastore
- Upgrading firmware
- Backing up switch configurations
- Deploying a host
- Synchronizing a VLAN trunk range to an Ethernet switch
- Replacing a server
- 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 BMC passwords, and launching remote consoles. You can also view vSAN datastores, event logs, and detailed information for CPUs, FRUs, fans, temperature, voltage, local drives (Raid or system drives), BMC settings, BIOS settings, and memory.
- Compute inventory
- Filtering an inventory
- Replacing a compute server
- Setting a boot option
- Powering on/off or resetting compute nodes
- Editing a compute node label
- Compute node locator ID (LID) lamp
- Upgrading compute firmware
- Upgrading compute firmware using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- Editing the BMC password on a server
- Discovering I/O cards
- Editing the BMC settings for Active Directory, NTP, SNMP, and SNMPv3
- Exporting BMC settings to a template
- Importing BMC settings from a template
- Deleting a BMC settings template
- Resetting the BMC of a single compute node
- Resetting the BMC of multiple compute nodes
- Adding and editing a server tag
- Accessing a server from a remote console
- vSAN datastores
- Attaching a volume to a server
- Managing BIOS templates
- Enabling Microsoft Active Directory on a Hitachi Advanced Server
- Local drive slot numbering
- Modifying the maintenance mode timeout parameters
- 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, managing VLANS and ports, and creating and applying VLAN policies.
- Ethernet switch inventory
- Upgrading Ethernet switch firmware
- Editing Ethernet switch tags
- Backing up an Ethernet switch configuration
- Backing up all Ethernet switches
- Restoring an Ethernet switch configuration
- Set port type
- Viewing and managing Ethernet ports
- Managing VLANs on an Ethernet switch
- Managing VLAN policies
- Enabling Arista switch management SSH and API http commands
- 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, and create and apply zone policies.
- Fibre Channel switch inventory
- Viewing Fibre Channel ports
- Backing up a Fibre Channel switch configuration
- Enabling a Fibre Channel switch
- Disabling a Fibre Channel switch
- Restoring a Fibre Channel switch configuration
- Managing zone aliases
- Managing zones
- Managing zone configurations
- Managing zone policies
- Upgrading Fibre Channel switch firmware
- Administering UCP Advisor
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- The UCP Advisor administrative operations, such as managing users, integrating with VMware, creating and applying policies, generating logs and reports, and managing and viewing license information, are all available from the Settings menu.
- Viewing license information
- Importing a license
- Integrating VMware
- Using the UCP Advisor REST API
- Generating and downloading log files
- Generating a UCP system inventory report
- Managing UCP systems attached to linked vCenters
- Configuring the UCP Advisor Gateway
- Initiating a High Availability failover
- Using vRealize Log Insight (VMware Aria Operations for Logs) with UCP Advisor
- UCP Expansion
- Rebooting the UCP Advisor VMs
- Troubleshooting
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- Use the following guidelines and suggested steps to help resolve common issues.
- Troubleshooting issues with AD, SNMP, and NTP settings
- Troubleshooting add server issues
- Troubleshooting attach datastore issues
- Troubleshooting LUN path issues when attaching a datastore
- Troubleshooting BMC service issues
- Troubleshooting boot order issues
- Troubleshooting compute server status for servers onboarded at a non-compliant firmware level
- Troubleshooting Ethernet firmware upgrade issues
- Troubleshooting Ethernet switch onboarding issues
- Troubleshooting Cisco Ethernet switch backup configuration issues
- Troubleshooting security vulnerability in Brocade Fibre Channel switches
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel firmware upgrade issues
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel switch authentication issues
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel switch onboarding issues when SNMP is configured
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel switch functionality issues
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel restore issues
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel switch backup configuration issues
- Troubleshooting firmware upgrade issues with the DS120 G2 and DS220 G2 servers
- Troubleshooting firmware upgrade issues on DS120/DS220/DS225/DS240 and DS120 G2/DS220 G2 servers
- Troubleshooting firmware upgrade issues on HA800 series servers
- Troubleshooting firmware upgrade timeout issues onHA810 G2 and HA820 G2 servers
- Troubleshooting remote gateway IP address issues
- Troubleshooting global-active device pair creation failures
- Troubleshooting I/O card firmware upgrade issues
- Troubleshooting Kubernetes container restart issues caused by deployment resource limitations
- Troubleshooting UCP Advisor log bundle extraction issues on Windows systems
- Troubleshooting network port conflict on rebooting the cluster nodes
- Troubleshooting resource group issues
- Troubleshooting SNMPv3 admin user settings
- Troubleshooting switch backup and upgrade issues
- Troubleshooting UCP Advisor VM reboot issues
- Troubleshooting removal of the UCP Advisor plugin from the vCenter UI
- Troubleshooting UI launch issues
- Troubleshooting accidental plugin removal from the vCenter MOB
- Troubleshooting vLCM UI firmware bundle display issues: SSL certificate cannot be verified
- Troubleshooting vLCM UI firmware bundle display issues: expired authentication token
- Troubleshooting volume verification issues when creating an NVMe datastore
- Troubleshooting Chrome web browser issues
- Appendix
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- Use the SSL rotation utility tool to rotate the existing SSL certificate. It is recommended that you rotate the SSL certificate each time you upgrade the UCP Advisor software.
- Rotating the SSL certificate
- Importing or removing a CA-signed certificate
- Uploading or deleting a CA-signed certificate
- Upgrading hard disk drive resources
- Retaining network switch backup configuration files
- Manually unregistering a UCP Advisor plugin
- Adding an LDAPS certificate
- Changing the time zone of Task events