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EMC UIM: vCenter synchronization failed

We discovered another bug in EMC UIM/P 4.x where VMFS volumes are not syncing with vCenter.

Here are the error messages:

In the vCenter Sync Status:

The operation failed.

* Overall status of X successful hosts X failed disks

 

All those “failed disks” are LUNs that are configured as VMFS datastores.

The operation failed.

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Vblock Setup Validation Failed. MDS is not enabled for NPIV

Environment: EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning – Version 4.1 P 01 (Build 4.1.0.1.598)

All of a sudden I could not provision any more datastores or, on close inspection, perform any changes to the Services.

The usual troubleshooting steps of restarting UIM services (service uim-device-services restart), restarting UIM appliance and Rediscovering Vblock did not help.

I tried […]

EMC UIM Service Adoption Utility (SAU): Unable to adopt a Shared Storage Service

I tried to adopt a Shared Storage Service but it failed with the following error message:

Discovery Validation failed. Reason: Storage Pools – %Pool_Name% need to be graded in UIM

I checked Storage Pool configuration and confirmed it has been graded correctly. In my environment there are two Vblocks that are managed by […]

EMC UIM Unified Infrastructure Manager/ Provisioning. Version 4.0 Patch 02

Hurray! EMC UIM 4.0 Patch 02 has been released! Lots of new features and bug fixes!

New features and changes Decommission of shared storage service

When using UIM 4.0 and UIM 4.0 Patch 01 to perform a full decommission of a shared storage service, VMs were correctly deleted from the shared storage service, however VMs […]

EMC UIM Service Adoption Utility (SAU): Adopting a Shared Storage Service

This is the second article about EMC UIM Service Adoption Utility (SAU) and takes you through the adoption of Shared Storage Service. For Standard Service adoption please refer to “EMC UIM Service Adoption Utility (SAU)” article.

EMC UIM 4.0 introduced a new type of service – Shared Storage Service. This type of service allows you […]

EMC UIM Service Adoption Utility (SAU)

The EMC® Ionix™ Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning Service Adoption Utility is used to adopt services on VCE Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms that were not created using EMC® Ionix™ Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning (UIM/P). Once discovered, these services are adopted and managed by UIM/P. The Service Adoption Utility also is used to edit services and to generate reports summarising […]

EMC UIM Unified Infrastructure Manager / Provisioning 4.0 Release

UIM/P Nimbus has been released as UIM/P v. 4.0 on the 15th of August 2013. I was waiting for the official announcement and the release code on the Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning page on support.emc.com but, as it turned out, version 4.0 will have its own support page: https://support.emc.com/products/28497_Unified-Infrastructure-Manager

The review of new features can be […]

HOW TO: Regenerate expired UCS Manager certificate

The default (self-signed) UCSM keyring certificate must be manually regenerated if the cluster name changes or the certificate expires (it is valid for one year).

Affected object: sys/pki-ext/keyring-default Description: default Keyring’s certificate is invalid, reason: expired Cause: invalid-keyring-certificate Code: F0910

Here is what needs to be done:

Make sure Fabric Interconnects have correct time […]

Default Passwords

Here is a collection of default password and login to save you time googling them (not in any particular order):

Mysterium Node image for Raspberry Pi:

Username: myst Password: mystberry

Nebra Helium miner / Nebra OpenFleet miner:

Username: N/A Password: The default password is the Ethernet MAC address of Ethernet port of your device (in […]