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EMC UIM/P upgrade from version 4.0 to 4.1 may fail.

Please follow ‘HOW TO: Upgrade EMC UIM/P‘ blog post for instructions how to upgrade UIM/P.

When performing UIM/P upgrade from version 4.0 to 4.1 it may fail with the following error message:

Last Install: Failed to install updates (Error while running pre-install scripts)

If you check /opt/ionix-uim/logs/appliance-update.log you will see the following:

Version – […]

EMC UIM/P cannot start vCenter synchronization

Environment: EMC UIM 4.0 upgraded to UIM 4.1

You may get the following error messages when trying to start vCenter synchronization:

* Error initiating synchronization. viu.error: key not found

This happens because UIM/P 4.1 doesn’t like special characters like ‘ & ‘ and ‘ ! ‘ etc. in neither Service Offering name nor in Service […]

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 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 […]

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 […]