Configuring a UCP system in Enhanced Link Mode

Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Advisor Software Installation Guide

Version

4.5.x

Audience

anonymous

Part Number

MK-92UCP120-13

Configuring multiple vCenters requires planning. For example, if you have a single physical UCP solution, but you want to spread the solution's hardware across three different vCenters, then you must split the hardware into three different UCP systems to accommodate the needs of the IT infrastructure. To do this, set up your environment similar to the following example environment:

vCenter 1 containing 4 servers in a management cluster (Management) with UCP Advisor and other IT-related services installed.
vCenter 2 containing 17 servers in a production server cluster (Cluster 1).
vCenter 3 containing 12 servers in a second production server cluster (Cluster 2).

Any time you split up a physical UCP solution into separate pieces that will be onboarded to different UCP systems, create an onboarding worksheet for each system that contains only the compute elements that are to be onboarded to that system, and then create a separate onboarding worksheet for onboarding to all the UCP systems that contains the common switches and storage that are present in the physical system. See "Onboarding worksheet details" in the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Administration Guide.

The following four onboarding worksheets must be created to set up the environment described above:

Management compute worksheet containing only the 4 nodes used in the management cluster.
Cluster 1 compute worksheet containing only the 17 nodes used in Cluster 1.
Cluster 2 compute worksheet containing only the 12 nodes used in Cluster 2.
Common worksheet containing the Fibre Channel and Ethernet switches, and the storage system.

Register the UCP Advisor plugin with each vCenter in the environment using the address and user credentials for each vCenter, respectively. See "Registering vCenter" in the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Administration Guide.
In vSphere Client, log on to each vCenter, and then assign UCP Advisor roles to the groups that are specific to that vCenter. See "Role-based access control" in the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Administration Guide.
For vCenter 1:
1. Log on to vCenter 1, and then in UCP Advisor, add a UCP system named Management.
2. Using the Management compute worksheet, onboard the servers for vCenter 1.
3. Using the Common worksheet, onboard the common switches and storage.
The UCP Advisor dashboard displays Management as a Registered system.
For vCenter 2:
1. Log on to vCenter 2, and then in UCP Advisor, add a UCP system named Cluster 1.
2. Using the Cluster 1 compute worksheet, onboard the servers for vCenter 2.
3. Using the Common worksheet, onboard the common switches and storage.
The UCP Advisor dashboard displays Cluster 1 under Registered Systems and Management under Discovered Systems.
For vCenter 3:
1. Log on to vCenter 3, and then in UCP Advisor, add a UCP system named Cluster 2.
2. Using the Cluster 2 compute worksheet, onboard the servers for vCenter 3.
3. Using the Common worksheet, onboard the common switches and storage.
The UCP Advisor dashboard displays Cluster 2 under Registered Systems and Management and Cluster 1 under Discovered Systems.

For information about managing UCP systems attached to linked vCenters in both standalone mode and plugin mode, see "Managing UCP systems attached to linked vCenters" in the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Advisor Administration Guide.