UCS Manager¶

Overview¶

The Morpheus UCS Manager Integration enables UCS M B and C Chassis Inventory, VM and Container Host Bare Metal Provisioning, PXE boot with IPMI, Storage Profile, SAN Connection Profile, Server Pool, BIOS Profile, Boot Profile, Maintenance Profile, UUID Pool and Disk Group Profile sync.

Adding UCS Manager Cloud¶

Navigate to Infrastructure > Clouds
Select + ADD
Select UCS MANAGER from the Clouds list
Populate the following:

Cloud Configuration

NAME
Name of the Cloud in Morpheus

CODE
Unique code used for api/cli, automation and policies.

LOCATION
Description field for adding notes on the cloud, such as location.

VISIBILITY
For setting cloud permissions in a multi-tenant environment. Not applicable in single tenant environments.

TENANT
If Visibility is set to Private, select the Tenant the Cloud resources will assigned to.

ENABLED
When disabled, automatic Cloud sync is paused and the Cloud will not be selectable for provisioning.

AUTOMATICALLY POWER ON VMS
When enabled, Morpheus will maintain the expected power state of managed VMs. Morpheus will power on any managed VMs in the Cloud that have been shut down for unknown reasons (not powered off by Morpheus) to ensure availability of services.

Note

When “AUTOMATICALLY POWER ON VMS” is enabled, the power state of managed VMs should be maintained in Morpheus. This setting is not applicable to discovered/unmanaged resources.

Details
UCS MANAGER
IP or hostname of UCS Manager

USERNAME
UCS Manager User

PASSWORD
UCS Manager Password

ORGANIZATION
- EXISTING (select)
- NEW (create)
  
  ORG NAME
  Enter name for the new Organization
SERVER PREFIX
String provisioned servers will be prefixed with

DATA DISK MODE
- LVM data disk
- Single Disk
DATA VOLUME
Defaults to /dev/sdb * Check to enable SOFTWARE RAID

NET INTERFACE
Defaults to eth0
Select NEXT
Select an existing or create a new Group to add the Cloud to. The Cloud can be added to additional Groups in a Groups Clouds tab.
Select NEXT
Review and then Select COMPLETE