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 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.
- 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 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
- Upgrading the UCP Advisor management software
- 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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- In most cases, the UCP systems and devices required for your site were added and onboarded during the UCP Advisor deployment phase of your installation, but you can add new systems, as needed.
- 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
- 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 server firmware
- Editing the BMC password on a server
- Adding and editing a server tag
- Accessing a server from a remote console
- vSAN datastores
- 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 access the UCP Advisor REST API, apply a user license and view license information and registered compute devices, and generate and download log bundles for support.
- Applying a license
- Using the UCP Advisor REST API
- Generating and downloading log files
- Enabling viewing and managing of inventory in linked UCP systems
- Configuring the UCP Gateway Host
- Configuring the vCenter Server Appliance SSH login credentials
- Configuring vRealize Log Insight
- Configuring vRealize Orchestrator
- Configuring the SCP server
- 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 issues with log file generation
- Troubleshooting UCP systems not loading in vCenter with external PSC
- Troubleshooting Ethernet firmware upgrade issues