UCP Advisor
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Welcome to the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor (UCP Advisor) official documentation!
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- 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 installing 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.
- 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 storage resources
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- UCP Advisor dynamically allocates storage resources to virtual machines or hosts in the UCP Advisor environment.
- Storage system inventory
- Provisioning a datastore
- Expanding a datastore
- Mounting and unmounting a datastore
- Deleting a datastore
- Attaching a datastore
- Detaching a datastore
- Remounting a datastore
- Creating a parity group
- Deleting a parity group
- Managing logical units
- Creating a storage pool
- Expanding a storage pool
- Deleting a storage pool
- Reviewing storage ports
- Creating a host group
- Presenting a logical unit to a host group
- Unpresenting a logical unit from a host group
- Presenting a LUN to a VMware ESXi host
- Unpresenting a LUN from a VMware ESXi host
- Adding a WWN to a host group
- Removing a WWN from a host group
- Deleting a host group
- Reviewing resource groups
- Managing compute nodes
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- Hitachi UCP Advisor provides pertinent information and allows you to manage operations for connected servers.
- Managing switches
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- UCP Advisor provides pertinent information and allows you to manage operations for connected Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches.
- Ethernet switch inventory
- Upgrading Ethernet switch firmware
- Backing up a switch configuration
- Restoring a switch configuration
- Managing Ethernet ports
- Creating or removing a VLAN on an Ethernet switch
- Adding or removing ports from a VLAN
- Fibre Channel switch inventory
- Upgrading Fibre Channel switch firmware
- Managing Fibre Channel ports
- Managing aliases
- Managing zones
- Managing a zone configuration
- Administering UCP Advisor
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- The Administration window is where you perform administrative tasks for your UCP Advisor environment, such as renewing a license, registering a UCP system, and adding, modifying, or removing resources. You can also manually onboard resources, configure system parameters, schedule switch backups, upload firmware upgrade bundles, download log bundles, and access the REST API console.
- Renewing an existing license
- Registering a UCP system
- Adding resources
- Managing resources
- Provisioning operating systems
- Configuring the UCP Gateway Host
- Configuring the vCenter Server Appliance SSH login credentials
- Configuring vRealize Log Insight
- Configuring vRealize Orchestrator
- Configuring Hitachi Ops Center Automator
- Running Hitachi Ops Center Automator
- Configuring the SCP Server
- Scheduling the backup of a switch configuration
- Upgrading and applying firmware and patches
- Generating and downloading log files
- Using the UCP Advisor REST API
- UCP Advisor CLI
- Troubleshooting
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- Common problems and possible solutions are described in this module.
- Accepting the SSL certificate in vRLI
- Configuring vRLI
- Troubleshooting vRealize Orchestrator
- Troubleshooting slow performance
- Troubleshooting switch backup and upgrade issues
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel switch functionality issues
- Manually unregistering UCP Advisor plugins from vCenter
- Troubleshooting bare metal server PXE boot failure when OS provisioning
- Troubleshooting UCP Advisor ToolBox plugin registration issues
- Troubleshooting issues with log file generation
- Troubleshooting UCP systems not loading in vCenter with external PSC
- Deployment 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 ISO media bundle.
- Overview
- UCP Advisor virtual machine 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
- Troubleshooting
- Manually unregistering UCP Advisor plugins from vCenter
- Uninstalling the UCP Advisor system
- UCP Advisor beta HTML5-based plugin
- Upgrading UCP Advisor
- ucp_adm utility