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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 […]

Install and configure EMC UIM/P

Deploy UIM/P from OVF template; Verify the UIM/P services are running properly; uim001:~ # service uim-service-wrapper status uim-service-wrapper is running Enable JBoss JMX Console access: uim001:~ # cd /opt/ionix-uim/tools uim001:/opt/ionix-uim/tools # perl password-change.pl +========================================================+ | Password Update Utility | +========================================================+ | Available Commands: | | [A]uto-Generate All Passwords | | [C]hange Single Password | […]

HOW TO: Add new VMware vSphere ISO image to UIM/P

These instructions are valid for EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager / Provisioning (UIM/P) v3.0, Build 3.0.0.0.530.

UPDATE: EMC UIM/P 4.1 introduced support for Linux installation. Please refer to Add/Remove ISO images in EMC UIM/P 4.1 for details of the updated procedure.

When you try to create a New Service Offering you will only be able to […]