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UIM/P 4.0.x is unable to install ESXi – PXE boot issue

When you’ll try provision ESXi using UIM version 4.0.x and Cisco UCS 2.1(3x) it might fail to install OS.

Installer hangs on s.v00 file and keeps rebooting.

There is an issue with the pxelinux third party software version utilized by UIM/P 4.0.0, UIM/P 4.0.0 Patch 1, and UIM/P 4.0.0 Patch 2, for OS installation.

To […]

EMC VNXe upgrade failed: Extracting the image on peer SP

Array: EMC VNXe 3100 Current version – 2.4.0.20932 Candidate version – 2.4.1.21171

EMC VNXe firmware upgrade failed at 15% with the following error message:

“Software Update failed: Extracting the image on peer SP The following error(s) caused the software upgrade to fail:

The upgrade has failed. Try rebooting the Storage Processor (SPA) and […]

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 […]

HOW TO: Backup / Restore EMC UIM/P database, collect the logs.

Backup/Restore UIM/P database: uim001:/opt/ionix-uim/tools # ./backup.pl Would you like to back up your current data? [y/n] y Backing up database… Backing up files… Building backup image file… Backup file created: /opt/ionix-uim/data-image/backup-image-4.0.0.0.314.CS.Sep-16-2013-14.04.tgz To restore this data file, type: restore.pl backup-image-4.0.0.0.314.CS.Sep-16-2013-14.04.tgz Collect UIM/P logs: uim001:/opt/ionix-uim/tools # ./saveLogs.pl all adding: opt/ionix-uim/logs/cflist.3.log (deflated 95%) adding: opt/ionix-uim/logs/ssh.log (stored 0%) {skipped} […]

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 […]

EMC UIM/P (Nimbus) review

I have been a big fan of UIM/P for a long time. I blogged vastly on the subject and was pleased to receive an invitation to take part in new version of BETA (codename Nimbus) testing. I would like to thank EMC UIM/P team for the privilege and am looking forward to cooperate with them […]

EMC UIM/P: Server Provisioning failed: Could not create zones.

EMC UIM/P server provisioning failed with the following error message:

This error message is not a problem with UIM/P (Come on! Stop blaming UIM for everything!), it is Cisco MDS SAN switch “Enhanced zoning” feature.

Enhanced zoning uses a session locking facility like CFS to prevent simultaneous zoning configuration changes by two users on […]

HOW TO: Decommission and delete Service Offering in EMC Ionix UIM/P

Login to UIM/P management interface as sysadmin; Navigate to ‘Service Manager’ and highlight the service you would like to decommission or delete; Click ‘Deactivate’ and select servers you would like to remove from the service or select ALL, click on Deactivate; The servers will be powered off, Service Profile and vNIC(s) de-activated:

VEXC101, […]