Base
infrastructure needs to be in place:
1.Base hardware installed, racked,
and cabled
2.Infrastructure components must be
configured for management
e.g. Cisco UCS Management IP must
be in place
3.Certain policies must be
pre-configured on the infrastructure
SAN Boot policy, no local disk
policy, QoS policy, Chassis Discovery Policy, etc.
4.UIM OS Installation VLAN must be
preconfigured
Supports installation of OS (hypervisor) to a
blade
5.VLANs, PIN Groups, and VSANs must
be configured
Adding ports to VLANs and VSANs
6.(Thin) Storage Pools, Storage
Groups, or RAID Groups must be
preconfigured
7.FAST Policies should be
preconfigured
Provisioning through UIMP is a five-step process:
- Discover Infrastructure and Create Address Pools
- Grading of resource pools and profiles
- Package pools and profiles into Service Offerings
- Publish Service Offerings in Service Catalog
- Create an Infrastructure Service from a Service Offering
1.
Log-in to UIMP with sysadmin credentials and
navigate to “Asset Discovery” tab
a.
Rediscover the “Compute Systems, Storage
systems, Switches (Network and MDS Switches), VMware vCenters ” and other
required components for the respective vBlock
2.
Navigate to “Resource Planning” Tab and add “Grade
Name” for the new blades
a.
Apply the Grade Name to the new Blades
3.
Create a “Standard Service Offering” from the
“Service Planning” tab and enter the following information for the New Service
Offering
a.
Give a Name and ESXi OS version
b.
Select the Grade name created for new Blades
with required values for Minimum, Maximum and Default Blades and click “save”
c.
Select a Grade for Storage (for boot volume) with
required values for Minimum and Combined Maximum in GB and click “Save”
d.
Select the vBlock Name, Switch A and all VLANS
for the Network Profile and click “save”
e.
Select the vBlock Name, Switch B and all VLANS
for the Network Profile and click “save”
f.
Edit the VMware Cluster and Provide HA, DRS and
other settings
4.
Now create a new service (with all required
information” from Service Offering created earlier
a.
Check all the settings in General tab
b.
Click on Servers Tab and assign IP, Hostname,
BIOS Policy details, etc to all the Blades
c.
Set root password for all the hosts
d.
Click on Storage Tab and verify all the settings
e.
Add all the available ports for vhba-a
f.
Save all the settings
g.
Add all the available ports for vhba-b
h.
Save the settings
5.
Finally select the service created and click
“provision” to start the provisioning
a.
Workflow can be seen in the Service History tab
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