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?
Does is always need full rights, or can we create an account with only limited rights on the Nexus switch for UCS Director?

If you want it to do anything, it'll probably need full rights. If you just want to inventory the switch, you can probably get away with a limited access account.

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Cannot add vCenter as Physical Account in UCS Director 5.0.0

hello all,
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
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.
Not too familiar with the breakdown of the licensing unfortunately as we have a complete license implemented in our environment, although I would expect vCenter licenses to be part of the base licensing model

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

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
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.
Not too familiar with the breakdown of the licensing unfortunately as we have a complete license implemented in our environment, although I would expect vCenter licenses to be part of the base licensing model

How do I get to the console of a VM using UCS Director?

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I did that twice. Once, about an hour ago. And nothing changed. I did it again about twenty minutes ago, and still nothing. A few minutes ago I tried yet another force quit. And .... that seemed to do the trick. The offending email message is gone.
So my problem seems to be solved.
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Want to hear about vCAC when used with Cisco UCS Director... How are you seeing this done?

I have a client that has both VMware vCloud Automation Center, and Cisco UCS Director.
They wish to constuct a net-new (Greenfield) data center and are hearing from both VMware and Cisco.
I have researched, and found little regarding the merger of the two.
I realize that very likely vCAC is teh "main" management platform, while Cisco UCSD will handle the more "physical hardware" tasks.
REST API's will be leveraged as well.
What have you seen written and done in this space when using BOTH?
Please send me any thoughts or links to relevant data.
I am having a hard time locating good data so that I an advise the client in a good way.

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.
Next is Snow Leopard:
Here the 320 pixel, the 480 pixel and the 960 pixel image are different from the 720 pixel, the 720p and the 1080p ones. Neither is strictly correct as they are all different from the sRGB display. This is consistent with their being no real color management, just gamma corrections and color space transforms (video is usually not stored as RGB but as YUV, necessitating a transform for display). Annoying, but not much you can do about it.
Just doing some quick googling I came across many mentions of issues such as this. It clearly is just a big mess.

Is there a way to manage EMC VMAX SRDF from UCS Director?

Running UCS Director to manage converged infrastructure including EMC VMAX, can I configure SRDF replication from the UCS Director UI? Are there workflows to do that? Can I accomplish this indirectly using scripts? Can I view the VMAX SRDF configuration?
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Unlock the Network preference pane, if necessary, by clicking the lock icon in the lower left corner and entering your password. Cllck Advanced, open the DNS tab, and change the server addresses to the following:
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In Safari, select
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and confirm. If you’re using another browser, empty the cache. Test. Any difference?
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1. If you lose Internet access after making the above change to your network settings, delete the Google servers in the Network preference pane, then select the TCP/IP tab and click Renew DHCP Lease. That should restore the original DNS settings; otherwise restore them yourself. Remember that you must click Apply in order for any changes to take effect.
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Post-provisioning workflow in UCS Director

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I created a service request in UCS director (v4.1) to provision a VM.
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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

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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.
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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/

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
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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 ,
Mostafa Elgindy

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.

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

UCS Director Recover Password

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I have deployed UCS director in my lab that is not yet connected to a domain.
UCS director version is: 4.0.0.2
Unfortunately have forgotten the password and hence can't log back in.
Can some one help me on how to reset the password, whether using ssh or any other way?
Appreciate in advance.
Pankit

Hi UCS Gurus,
anyone out there knows the answer to this?

UCS Director API call Help

Hello All,
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.
Can someone show me an example on how to execute operation by passing key in the request header. I checked the developer's guide but example has not been provided htere.
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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Home directories loosing access rights - Urgent help required

We have just migrated around 2000 user accounts onto a new xserve server and we have just set up these user accounts so that there home directory is stored on the server as opposed to locally on each machine. To get past a serious performance issue we changed the rights for the group so that only the owner could see there own directory and they had full read right access. Now there is one group and around 2000 user folders in that group, with each folder having the specific owner. Now after we made this change to the rights for the group to be none, and the owner as read/write access to the folder. We pushed this out using Workgroup manager and applied the changes to all child folders and files. Now in theory, when a user logged on they would only be able to see there own home directory and no one else’s on the server - and this is what happened, for the first 5 minutes... and then without making any changes to their server or the client machine, the user then lost access to their own home directory. The only way we have been able to get around this is to allow the group read access to the parent folder, so if a user navigates through to the volume on the server where these home directories are stored then they will be able to see all 2000 folders (but not access any data in them) Now this would not be such a big deal for us to fix ASAP, however it does cause the client machines to go very very very slow when browsing to open files through various programs. E.g. when you click file and then open in Photoshop or whatever the pinwheel will come up and start to spin for at least a min or so before it brings up the finder. I am assuming that this is because the machine is trying to look in all 2000 odd folders. Does anyone have any idea or suggestions on how we can get around this issue or what we are doing wrong?
We are about to split the users up into groups of around 200, which should have been done from the start (BTW we did test this on a test server before implementing it, however it is murphies law that new bugs had to come up)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
:S

Thanks for you suggestions; we only used workstation manager to change the preferences. We were trying to change the rights so that the students would not even see the other student’s folders. We ended up setting up the rights similar to how you suggested, but there was still slow performance issues browsing to folders in the finder, because machine would get to the directory /Volume/server.address/mac_students and then search through 2000 folders (And maybe try to index) before going to the next level being the students home directory. So we split the 2000 users into 10 groups (Which really should have been done from the start) This enabled the finder to load a lot faster, but students could still see the top level folder of the other students in the group, but hey at least we were not faced with a "ohhhh boy, it is Monday morning and no students can log in" situation... We will be tweaking the image that is on all the clients to have the default locations in Photoshop and Quark etc to point locally, but that will be a bit of a longer term thing.
I guess my real initial question was if we made a mistake with the rights on how we set them up, why did it work on the test server the whole time, and even on the live server for a few minutes, I would have thought that if the rights were wrong, then it would not have worked from the start?
Never mind it is working now, which is the main thing.
Another question though, for anyone that is reading, is how to you change the preferences of spotlight and where it saves its data.. Basically when a student logs onto a new computer, spotlight indexes and saves results in each folder and we would like to prevent it from indexing and saving to the home directory (Because this is on the server) We can actually see the CPU of the server go up when a student logs onto a machine that they have never logged into before and spotlight starts indexing the new machine. And preferably we would like to not disable spotlight on all the client machines - as students will no doubt like to search. Also should we disable spotlight on the server end? I guess this would improve performance a bit as well.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions

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