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 VMware vCenter environment for installing Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Advisor for a UCP hyperconverged appliance.
- 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 vRealize Orchestrator
- Configuring vRealize Log Insight
- Configuring the VMware vCenter Appliance
- Configuring Hitachi Automation Director
- Running Hitachi Automation Director
- 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
- Using the 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 UCP Advisor session timeouts
- Troubleshooting UCP Advisor after running the installer
- 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