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EMC Ionix UIM/P: UCS Discovery Failed. Replace expired UCS certificate.

Cisco UCS Manager certificate expired and we had to re-generate it. See my ‘HOW TO: Regenerate expired UCS Manager certificate‘ blog post for details.

How to replace UCS certificate that was imported into UIM/P?

Well, in UIM/P 3.2 it is dead easy:

cd /opt/ionix-uim/tools ./importUcsCertificate.pl

enter UCS IP address and UIM/P will do the rest. […]

HOW TO: Reset EMC UIM/P sysadmin or root password

By default, the password for EMC UIM/P sysadmin account is ‘sysadmin‘.

If, for whatever reason, it does not work, ssh or login to the console as root and reset sysadmin password:

login as: root Using keyboard-interactive authentication. Password: Last login: Wed Feb 20 18:42:28 2013 uim001:~ # cd /opt/ionix-uim/tools uim001:/opt/ionix-uim/tools # perl password-change.pl +========================================================+ […]

EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning (UIM/P) 3.2

UIM/P GA on EMC website Nov 30th – VCE certification December 14, 2012

What is new in UIM/P 3.2?

Full elastic capability Selectively decommission storage, servers Add/remove vNICs Expand block LUNs and concatenated meta volumes Concurrent provisioning Provisioning multiple services at the same time Perform multiple elastic operations at the same time vCenter “unsync” Detach […]

EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning (UIM/P) documentation and software download

Q: Where can I download EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning (UIM/P) software?

A: You can download it from EMC Powerlink. You must have permissions to access UIM/P.

UIM/P Documentation download:

Home > Support > Technical Documentation and Advisories > Software ~ E-I ~ Documentation > Ionix Family > Ionix for Data Center Automation and Compliance […]

EMC UIM/P upgrade failed

After I upgraded UIM/P as per <these> instructions and restarted the appliance, I could not longer open UIM/P Management Logon Page. The following error message was displayed:

———————————————————————————— UIM/P Unavailable UIM/P is unable to service your request at this time. Please allow a few minutes to ensure UIM/P services are ready and try again. […]

HOW TO: Upgrade EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning (UIM/P)

Here is how you upgrade UIM/P:

Power down UIM/P and take a snapshot; Upload UIMP-3.X.X.X.XXX-Update-Media.iso to a datastore where it can be mounted to UIM/P virtual appliance; Mount Update Media ISO file to UIM/P virtual appliance and power it back on; Open UIM/P upgrade page by navigating to https://<hostname>:5480, where <hostname> is UIM/P FQDN or […]

HOW TO: Configure a new Service Offering in EMC UIM/P

I am currently working on VMware vCloud Director Proof Of Concept and decided to use two spare UCS blades and some storage to build a test environment.

We are using Vblock 300HX and I recently rebuilt EMC UIM/P and imported current production cluster with EMC UIM/P Service Adoption Utility (I am working on the article […]

EMC UIM/P cannot discover VNX Control Station after failover

Last night we had a Control Station failover on VNX7500 and before we could fail it back (Change Control etc etc) I needed to create a new Service Offering in EMC UIM/P. Naturally, I logged into UIM/P, changed Control Station IP address in the Vblock configuration and ran Vblock discovery again. Unfortunately, it failed on […]

HOW TO: Add/Discover Vblock in EMC UIM/P

In previous post we installed and configured UIM/P. We can now add and discover a Vblock.

Login to UIM/P as sysadmin; Navigate to Administration, Vblocks, Add Vblock; Select Vblock version, fill in IP addesses, user names and passwords and click Add and Discover; If discovery fails, check user names and passwords. Confirm they work by […]

HOW TO: Upgrade Cisco UCS Manager, Fabric Interconnects, I/O Modules and B-Series blade server firmware

These instructions are for Cisco UCS B200 M2 blade server firmware upgrade from 2.0(1q) to 2.0(3a) (Vblock support matrix 2.5.9).

Before you start downloading firmware and upgrading UCS Manager and the blades, it may be a good idea to go through some housekeeping: Login to UCS Manager. Verify overall status of Fabric Interconnects, I/O Modules, […]