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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UCP Advisor 4.3.0 Product Documentation Library (PDL)

Release Notes
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- Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Advisor v4.3.0 Release Notes
Videos
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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.
- Upgrading compute firmware using vSphere Lifecycle Manager in UCP Advisor
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.
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. For more information about assigning roles, see Role-based access control.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Troubleshooting
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Use the following guidelines and suggested steps to help resolve common 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.

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