Cisco UCS Director UCS Manager/Central Comparison

Hello Community,
Can someone please tell me what are the fundamental differences between Cisco UCS Director and UCS Manager/Central?
Cheers
Carlton

Carlton,
I am pretty sure this post (3 in total) from Jeremy Waldrop's blog (Jeremy usually visits this community too) will help explain UCS Director: http://jeremywaldrop.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/cisco-ucs-director-part-1/
Besides what you can see in the above link... UCS Manager is usually used for a single domain while UCS Central is used to integrate more than domain into a unique central point...
HTH,
-Kenny

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They wish to constuct a net-new (Greenfield) data center and are hearing from both VMware and Cisco.
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Bahi,
just to illustrate what mess this is, I tested for you on Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6) using the same wide gamut monitor. Here are two screenshots from that experiment. I converted the screenshots from my display profile to sRGB to show you what I see and scaled down 50% (this is a 30" behemoth). First Leopard.
You see they are all the same, but different from the sRGB export you provided. The GB sticker is too blue and the tint on the car is wrong. I doubt anybody but a photographer would notice though.
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Cisco UCS Director Login Problem

Hello Community,
I have recently installed Cisco UCS Director 5.1. According to the documentation the initial login requirements are admin for username and admin for password, see image;
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-director/vsphere-install-guide/5-1/b_Installing_UCSDirector_on_vSphere_5_1/b_Installing_UCSDirector_on_vSphere_5_1_chapter_010.html
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Cheers
Carlton

Sergey,
If this is a real I2C issue, you may still see the same behavior on 2.0.x release if the I2C bus was not cleared before the upgrade. (in this moment I don't know if you recently performed an upgrade on the system or not)
I2C bus tranports information about the different components of the Unified System, this, meaning Chassis, IOMs, Fans, PSU, etc... What happens is that all those components try to send theit status update while other do the same and then the I2C bus gets overwhelmed, and then noone can really report their real status, so we usually recommend the customer ro reseat all major components, one at the time, to clear the bus and then do the upgrade, if that is not done before the upgrade, it still should be done after.
Try reseating the Fans and PSU, one at the time, leaving a minute in between and then, IOMs one at the time, leaving three minutes in between and begining with the subordinate to cause minimun disruption.
If this does not clear the situation, then you will need to remove one of the components already mentioned, one at the time and do a "show tech-support chassis # all brief" to see what the I2C bus reports segment by segment (chassis, Fans, PSUs...) once you remove a component and the errors on each segment stop incrementing you will have your faulty piece of hardware, and a TAC case will be needed to send a replacement.
For further analysis or assistance, I strongly recommend a TAC case to be opened.
-Kenny

Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) 5.0 Training

Hello Community,
Can anyone help me where i can attend the following Training for (( Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) 5.0 )) as i can not find a schedual in CISCO training locator .. It is highly important for me as i have an implementation soon and i need to get its knowledge .
Thanks & Best Regards ,
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Mostafa,
I think you'll have a little problem getting this running. There is huge interest in this topic but to be fair, Cisco has only just now (the past two weeks) released the 5.0 course materials to the instructors. So far as I know, me and two other instructors are the only instructors in Europe which are both certified to teach this class as well as actually have hands on experience with Director. In addition, we can't as instructors get our hands on the actual product outside of dCloud to actually update our knowledge for v5.0 because of the insanely stupid terms involved.
I have been asked three times so far to deliver this course. I've said no 3 times. I wouldn't even consider it without a few weeks to prepare, so I personally won't deliver it before March. There are some guys who like reading slides that will do it sooner, but you may have issues with getting questions answered.

Looking into UCS. Do I need UCS Director?

Hello Everyone
I am brand new to UCS. I am getting quotes from Cisco on new UCS system. About a year ago we got quotes for this system to add to next years budget and on this quote there is a new item and that is about 10K for UCS support package.
In reading about this it sounded like this was for really large environments.
Our environment is going to be one chassis and 8 blades. 5 of the blades will be used for Hyper V cluster which is managed by SCVMM and orchestrator for automation. In a few years we may look into getting another system for failover site.
Changes on VM environment are not frequent. About 100 VMs
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http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2013/08/manage-your-cisco-ucs-with-windows-powershell/
http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2013/10/cisco-ucs-powershell-convertto-ucscmdlet/

UCS Director 5 Workflow Tasks

Hi,
i cloned the task "OVF Import to VMware Cloud" from task library.
if i use this cloned custom task within a workflow, it doesn't deploy a ovf template.
This is the output from a workflow with the original task
==============================================================
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:05 UTC Request submitted
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:07 UTC Executing workflow item number 1
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:07 UTC Completed workflow item number 1, with status Completed
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:13 UTC Executing workflow item number 2
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:13 UTC Trigger context executeWorkFlowStep called
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:13 UTC Executing custom action custom-ovf-deployment (OVF Import to VMware Cloud)
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:13 UTC Executing custom action custom-ovf-deployment (OVF Import to VMware Cloud)
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:13 UTC Initiating OVF content read from URL : file:/opt/infra/uploads/external/public/1407488922913/demo.ovf
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:13 UTC Policy Trace: Populating cluster/hostnode/datastore list for cloud teamix
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:13 UTC Policy Trace: Final Scope includes Host demoesx01
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:13 UTC Policy Trace: Final Scope includes Host demoesx02
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: After applying PrivateCloudComputingPolicy, scope has 2 hosts
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Scope now includes host demoesx01 and it's datastores : 73c42fe99cc535fd96e45ab03bacc789,local_ds_demoesx01,5c3a0165a62d338bbbabb6eef9fed97d,demonfs01_demonap,nfsdemo,demonfs02_demonap
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Scope now includes host demoesx02 and it's datastores : 73c42fe99cc535fd96e45ab03bacc789,local_ds_demoesx02,5c3a0165a62d338bbbabb6eef9fed97d,demonfs01_demonap,nfsdemo,demonfs02_demonap
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace:
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Filtering storage scope for system disk type started.
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Filtering data stores, ruleType=Include
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Datastores in the include List 73c42fe99cc535fd96e45ab03bacc789
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Removing Data store local_ds_demoesx01, not in the 'Include' list
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Removing Data store 5c3a0165a62d338bbbabb6eef9fed97d, not in the 'Include' list
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Removing Data store demonfs01_demonap, not in the 'Include' list
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Removing Data store nfsdemo, not in the 'Include' list
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Removing Data store demonfs02_demonap, not in the 'Include' list
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Removing Data store local_ds_demoesx02, not in the 'Include' list
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Removing Data store 5c3a0165a62d338bbbabb6eef9fed97d, not in the 'Include' list
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Removing Data store demonfs01_demonap, not in the 'Include' list
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Removing Data store nfsdemo, not in the 'Include' list
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Removing Data store demonfs02_demonap, not in the 'Include' list
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Filtering storage scope for system disk type completed.
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace:
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: No additional storage polices defined. Starting datastore filtering for default system type.
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Completed datastore filtering for default system type.
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: After applying PrivateCloudStoragePolicy, scope has 2 hosts
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Scope now includes host demoesx01 and it's datastores : 73c42fe99cc535fd96e45ab03bacc789
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Scope now includes host demoesx02 and it's datastores : 73c42fe99cc535fd96e45ab03bacc789
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: No Portgroup name specified in the network policy, so no host filtering done
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: After applying PrivateCloudNetworkPolicy, scope has 2 hosts
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Scope now includes host demoesx01 and it's datastores : 73c42fe99cc535fd96e45ab03bacc789
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Scope now includes host demoesx02 and it's datastores : 73c42fe99cc535fd96e45ab03bacc789
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: After evaluating 0 rules, 2 hosts met the criteria
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Host: demoesx01
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Policy Trace: Host: demoesx02
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Primary Allocated Cluster: ccp-cluster
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Primary Allocated Datastore: 73c42fe99cc535fd96e45ab03bacc789
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Primary Allocated ResourcePool: Resources
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC Provisioning on primary host/datastore...
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:14 UTC OVF URL:/opt/infra/uploads/external/public/1407488922913/demo.ovf
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:15 UTC Found data store 73c42fe99cc535fd96e45ab03bacc789 which matched cluster ccp-cluster DC Mordor
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:15 UTC Initiating OVF deployment action.
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:15 UTC Initiating OVF content read from URL : file:/opt/infra/uploads/external/public/1407488922913/demo.ovf
Aug 13, 2014 11:13:17 UTC Initiating VMDK file upload
==============================================================
this is the output from my cloned task:
==============================================================
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:32 UTC Request submitted
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:37 UTC Executing workflow item number 1
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:37 UTC Completed workflow item number 1, with status Completed
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:43 UTC Executing workflow item number 2
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:43 UTC Trigger context executeWorkFlowStep called
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:43 UTC Executing custom action cdot1 (custom_readcDC)
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:43 UTC Executing custom action cdot1 (custom_readcDC)
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:43 UTC Executing custom script for readcDC
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:44 UTC Task #1 (cdot1 (custom_readcDC)) completed successfully in 0 seconds
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:44 UTC Input/Output values for Task #1 (cdot1 (custom_readcDC)):
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:44 UTC [Mapped Input: Select vDC = 2]
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:44 UTC [Mapped Input: OVF File = /opt/infra/uploads/external/public/1407488922913/demo.ovf]
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:44 UTC Completed workflow item number 2, with status Completed
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:49 UTC Executing workflow item number 3
Aug 13, 2014 11:14:49 UTC Completed workflow item number 3, with status Completed
==============================================================
it seems that there is something lost while cloning the task.
Does anybody have an idea what i'm forgot?
regards
Oliver

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1. software bug on UCS Director 5.0.0.0 or 5.0.0.1.
I have managed to connect vCenter 5.1 in our environment so don't think it's related to this
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The compatibility matrix mentions 5.5, however it doesn't specify if that includes U2 or not, perhaps you could send a screenshot of the configuration as you have it when trying to complete the addition of the virtual account?
3. no UCS Director pod license. I saw there is no small/medium/ enterise pod licence so this might be an issue.
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I created a service request in UCS director (v4.1) to provision a VM.
Additionally I created/added post-provisioning workflow to that service request with the purpose to sent the custom report upon completing the provisioning process.
The question here: How I can access the provisioned VM details from my custom workflow task's Cloupia script without asking the user to enter them manually? I am interested to get details like assigned IP address of the VM and its hostname at least and then to build some logic around.
Thanks in advance

Hello Sandeep,
Follwing are key high point of UCSD or are better than what other vendors are providing.
1) Enable Automation & Self Service through Workflows, Triggers, & Tasks.
2) Lifecycle Management Controls.
3) Automated adaptive provisioning.
4) Multi-tenant Security
5) Single pane of glass for continuous capacity monitoring.
6) Chargeback.
7) Orchestrator & workflow designer.
8 )CloudSense Analytics.
9) Multi-hypervisor support.
10) Multi-cloud support.
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Cannot add vCenter as Physical Account in UCS Director 5.0.0

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I am having problem to connect vCenter 5.5U2 from UCS Director 5.0.0. In the add physical account page, there is a mandatory field for cloud name and I have no idea where to setup this on vCenter server in order to add the account successfully. I could not use own cloud name and received error could not connnect to the cloud name. Has anyone in this forum successfully perform this task?
Any assistance for me is much appreciated.

Hi, in response to your questions:
1. software bug on UCS Director 5.0.0.0 or 5.0.0.1.
I have managed to connect vCenter 5.1 in our environment so don't think it's related to this
2. unsupported vCenter 5.5U2 integration with current / latest UCS Director software
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I am trying to access UCS director API from a webpage to perform GetAllVMs operation but it is throwing Error "401, unauthorized". I believe it has something to do with the Key Value pair I am passing.
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Apologies in case I posted this under wrong topic/category as I had difficulty browsing this site.

Hi
Please check following link may be useful.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/ucs-director/products-programming-reference-guides-list.html
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Is there a way with UCS Director to present users of the system the console of the VM like when you launch the VSphere Client and bring up the console? I can see that users can RDP into a running machine or connect to a web interface but that appears to assume the machine is accessible.

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So my problem seems to be solved.
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UCS Director physical account rights

I cannot find what the physical accounts minimal rights requierments are?
This is for UCS Director 5.0 / 5.1.
For example what needs an account for connectiong a Nexus switch need?
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UCS Director Recover Password

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UCS director version is: 4.0.0.2
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Can some one help me on how to reset the password, whether using ssh or any other way?
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Ask the Expert: C-Series Integration with Cisco Unified Computing System Manager

Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This conversation is an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco C-Series Integration with Cisco Unified Computing System® Manager (Cisco UCS® Manager) with Cisco experts Vishal Mehta and Manuel Velasco.
Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers are managed by the built-in standalone software, Cisco Integrated Management Controller (Cisco IMC). When a C-Series rack-mount server is integrated with Cisco UCS Manager, the IMC no longer manages the server. Instead you will manage the server using the Cisco UCS Manager GUI or Cisco UCS Manager command-line interface (CLI).
Cisco UCS Manager 2.2 provides three connectivity modes for Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Server management. The following are the connectivity modes:
Dual-wire management (shared LAN On Motherboard [LOM]): Shared LOM ports on the rack server are used exclusively for carrying management traffic.A separate cable connected to one of the ports on the Payment Card Industry Express (PCIe) card carries the data traffic.
SingleConnect (Sideband): Using Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI), the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1225 (VIC1225) connects one cable that can carry both data and management traffic.
Direct Connect Mode: Cisco UCS Manager Version 2.2 introduces an additional rack server management mode using direct connection to the Fabric Interconnect.
Vishal Mehta is a customer support engineer for Cisco’s Data Center Server Virtualization Technical Assistance Center (TAC) team based in San Jose, California. He has been working in the TAC for the past 3 years with a primary focus on data center technologies such as Cisco Nexus® 5000, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000V, and virtualization. He presented at Cisco Live in Orlando 2013 and will present at Cisco Live Milan 2014 (BRKCOM-3003, BRKDCT-3444, and LABDCT-2333). He holds a master’s degree from Rutgers University in electrical and computer engineering and has CCIE® certification (number 37139) in routing and switching and service provider.
Manuel Velasco is a customer support engineer for Cisco’s Data Center Server Virtualization TAC team based in San Jose, California. He has been working in the TAC for the past 3 years with a primary focus on data center technologies such as Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000V, and virtualization. Manuel holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and CCNA® and VMware VCP certifications. Remember to use the rating system to let Vishal and Manuel know if you have received an adequate response.
Because of the volume expected during this event, our experts might not be able to answer every question. Remember that you can continue the conversation in the Data Center, under subcommunity, Unified Computing, shortly after the event. This event lasts through May 23, 2014. Visit this forum often to view responses to your questions and the questions of other Cisco Support Community members.

Hello Sebastian,
The different modes of connecting C-Series with UCSM come into play depending on the type of infrastructure you already have along with C-Series and NIC model.
Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers are managed by the built-in standalone software, Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) .
Powerful features provided by Cisco UCS Manager can be leveraged to manage C-Series server by integrating C-Series Rack-Mount Server with UCSM.
This not only gives you rich-feature set but also one management plane to operate UCS-B Series Chassis and UCS-C Series Rack Server.
You will manage the server using the Cisco UCS Manager GUI or Cisco UCS Manager CLI.
Cisco UCS Manager 2.2 provides three connectivity modes for Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Server management.
The following are the connectivity modes:
• Dual-wire Management (Shared LOM):
Shared LAN on Motherboard (LOM) ports on the rack server are used exclusively for carrying management traffic. A separate cable connected to one of the ports on the PCIe card carries the data traffic. Using two separate cables for managing data traffic and management traffic is also referred to as dual-wire management.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c-series_integration/ucsm2-2/b_C-Series-Integration_UCSM2-2/b_C-Series-Integration_UCSM2-2_chapter_0100.html
This mode is recommended when you have C-Server which does not have or cannot support VIC 1225 card (such C-200 server)
• SingleConnect (Sideband):
Using Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI), Cisco UCS VIC1225 Virtual Interface Card (VIC) connects one cable that can carry both data traffic and management traffic.
This feature is referred to as SingleConnect.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c-series_integration/ucsm2-2/b_C-Series-Integration_UCSM2-2/b_C-Series-Integration_UCSM2-2_chapter_011.html
This most recommended Integration model when using FEX and VIC 1225 card
• Direct Connect Mode:
Cisco UCS Manager release version 2.2 introduces an additional rack server management mode using direct connection to the Fabric Interconnect.
This mode will eliminate the need for FEX module as Servers are directly plugged into the base ports of Fabric Interconnect
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c-series_integration/ucsm2-2/b_C-Series-Integration_UCSM2-2/b_C-Series-Integration_UCSM2-2_chapter_0110.html
Please let us know if you need more information. Thank you!
Thanks,
Vishal

Cisco Switches (2960 Series) Management

We are managing these devices using HP OpenView Network Node Manager (Ver. 7.5) on HP-UX platform.
What are the known problems, limitations on its initial discovery and on later stages of managing the same ?

The Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series supports the Cisco IOS LAN BASE software image. This software image is a rich suite of intelligent services that is also available in a crypto image at no additional charge.
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