UCS Manager

Overview

The HPE Morpheus Enterprise 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

  1. Navigate to Infrastructure > Clouds

  2. Select + ADD

  3. Select UCS MANAGER from the Clouds list

  4. Populate the following:

    Cloud Configuration

    NAME

    Name of the Cloud in HPE Morpheus Enterprise

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

    Note

    When “AUTOMATICALLY POWER ON VMS” is enabled, the power state of managed VMs should be maintained in HPE Morpheus Enterprise. 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

  5. Select NEXT

  6. 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.

  7. Select NEXT

  8. Review and then Select COMPLETE