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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Advisor

v01.1.0

Release Notes

Contents

About This Document ........................................................ 2

Intended Audience ............................................................ 2

Getting Help ..................................................................... 2

Hardware and Software Support ......................................... 3

New Features in this Release .............................................. 5

Known Problems ............................................................... 9

Documentation ................................................................ 11

Copyrights and Licenses ................................................... 13



About This Document

This document provides the latest information about Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor. It includes information that was not

available at the time the technical documentation for this product was

published and known problems and solutions.

Intended Audience

This document is intended for customers and Hitachi Ltd. partners

who license and use Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor.

Getting Help

The Hitachi Data Systems Support Center staff is available 24 hours a

day, seven days a week. Provisions for patches and fixes are restricted to normal business hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST.

To reach us, please visit the support Web site for current telephone

numbers and other contact information:

http://www.hds.com/services/support/. If you purchased this product

from an authorized HDS reseller, contact that reseller for support.

Before calling the Hitachi Data Systems Support Center, please

provide as much information about the problem as possible, including:

The circumstances surrounding the error or failure.

The exact content of any error message(s) displayed on the host system(s).

http://www.hds.com/services/support/



Hardware and Software Support

Supported Hardware

Supported Appliance

Model Version

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform 2000

(UCP), single rack configuration only

3.0

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (Hyper Converged), single rack

configuration only

1.0

Compute

Model BMC Firmware

Rack Optimized Server for

Solutions, 2U Four Node

3.42.00

Storage

Model BMC Firmware

Hitachi Unified Storage VM 73-03-50-00/00 or newer

Virtual Storage Platform 70-06-43-00/00 or newer

Virtual Storage Platform G1000 80-05-00-00/01 or newer

Virtual Storage Platform Gx00 83-03-24-20/00 or newer

Virtual Storage Platform Fx00 83-03-01-40/00 or newer

Virtual Storage Platform Gx00

Unified

83-04-01-40/00 or newer

Virtual Storage Platform G1500 80-05-01-00/00 or newer



Network

Model Firmware

Brocade 7450 08.0.30G

Brocade 6740 Network OS 7.0.0a

Brocade 6505 v7.4.1d

Brocade 6510 v7.4.1d

Supported Software

Windows Operating System

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition

VMware software Version

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.0 U2 (Build # 3620759)

VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.0.1.3533702

VMware vRealize Log Insight 3.3.2-3951163

VMware vRealize Log Insight Agent 3.3.2.3882029

VMware vSphere Update Manager 6.0.0.29963

VMware ESXi 6.0.0-Update02-Patch3-

4192238

Additional components Version

Hitachi Virtual Infrastructure

Integrator (V2I)

3.1.60.0



Limitations and Restrictions

To upgrade or downgrade Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor, the current version must be uninstalled before installing another

version.

Supported Browser Versions for VMware vCenter Web Client 6.0

Operating

System

Browser

Vendor

Browser Version

Windows Mozilla Firefox 50.0.2

Windows Google Chrome 54

Note While UCP Advisor supports the VMware vCenter Web

Client, it does not support the VMware vSphere client.

Memory and CPU Utilization

CPU: four CPU cores

RAM: 8 GB minimum; 16 GB recommended

Disk space: 100 GB

New Features in this Release

The following sections detail new features in this release.

Managing Multiple UCP Systems

Multi UCP system management - Supports management of multiple UCP systems

Managing Administration

UCP device Batch Configuration - Involves manually entering UCP device connection information in to a

spreadsheet, saving it as a .csv file, and importing this file

in to UCP Advisor



Uploading firmware - Allows new firmware bundles to be uploaded into UCP Advisor

Firmware upgrade using firmware bundle - Applies firmware bundles to UCP servers and switches

Log Bundle management - Collects logs related to UCP Advisor for troubleshooting purposes

License management - Supports setting up a license with Hitachi. The initial demo license allows usage of UCP Advisor for 60 days with no restrictions. UCP Advisor displays a

warning message a week prior to expiration indicating that

the System ID must be sent to the Hitachi licensing

department.

Scheduled switch configuration backup - Supports backing up switch configurations at specified times.

Adding and removing Compute devices - Allows Compute devices to be added and removed from UCP

Advisor

Adding and removing network switch devices - Allows

network switch devices to be added, edited, and removed from UCP Advisor.

Adding and removing Hitachi Storage arrays - Allows Hitachi Storage arrays to be added, edited, and removed

from UCP Advisor

Configuration – UCP Advisor supports the following configuration features:

o UCP System – Allows a UCP system to be configured.

o vRealize Orchestrator – Allows integration of

vRealize Orchestrator.

o vRealize Log Insight – Allows integration of vRLI.

o SCP – Allows UCP Advisor to transfer files to and from UCP switch devices.



Managing Virtual/Logical Resource

VMFS and NFS Datastore on cluster - Allows datastores to be created, expanded, mounted, unmounted, and deleted.

When a datastore is created, UCP Advisor automatically

creates an LU/NFS Export for the datastore.

VLAN Synchronization - Supports copying a VLAN range from a VMware distributed virtual switch to a UCP switch

device. Provides an API set to perform the synchronization.

ESXi Management - Supports the following ESXi

operations:

o Deploys ESXi host to ESXi cluster

o Deploys ESXi host to Datacenter

o Replaces ESXi host

Managing Storage Devices

Logical Unit Provisioning - Allows LUs to be provisioned,

expanded, deleted, and presented to VMware ESXi hosts

Storage Pools - Allows pools to be added, expanded, and

deleted

Resource Group - Display Resource Groups information

Parity Groups - Allows parity groups to be created and

deleted

Ports - Displays storage array ports and status

Host Group - Allows hostgroups to be created, edited, and deleted

iSCSI Management - Allows iSCSI targets to be added, edited, and deleted

Replication Management - Allows you to manage HTI

Snapshot, ShadowImage, TrueCopy, and HUR replication

Datastore - Allows you to create, expand, delete, mount,

and unmount a VMware Datastore



Managing Network Switch Devices

FC Switch Management - Supports managing aliases, zones and zone configurations

VDX/ICX switch management - Supports configuring ports and VLAN settings for VDX switches. Displays

configuration information for ICX switches

Switch firmware upgrade - Supports FC and VDX/ICX switch firmware upgrades

Switch configuration backup and restore - Supports incremental backups and selective restores of switch

configurations

Connected Features - Shows Compute devices connected

to FC and Ethernet switches

Synchronize VLAN range from virtual switch to

Brocade VDX switch - Copies the VLAN range from a VMware DVS switch's uplink port to the physical VDX switch

port attached to the ESXi host

Managing Compute Devices

Power management - Supports viewing and changing Compute power states

LID management - Supports viewing and changing Compute LID states

Firmware upgrade - Supports UCP Compute device firmware upgrades

Compute and chassis labeling - Enables labeling of Compute servers and chassis

Set boot options - Allows Compute device boot order

settings to be configured

Replace Compute device - Replaces an existing ESXi host

in a VMware cluster with a new one, and updates storage array settings to present the previous host's LUs to the new

host

Compute device information - Displays FRU, voltage, temperature, fan, CPU, and memory information



ESXi deployments - Supports the following ESXi operations:

o Deploys ESXi host to ESXi cluster

o Deploys ESXi host to Datacenter

o Replaces ESXi host

Managing VM Backup and Recovery

Hitachi V2I - Supports Hitachi V2I integration with vCenter, which provides data management services including

managed snapshot backups, snapshot restores, and

snapshot backup scheduling

Monitoring UCP Devices

vCenter related events and alarms - Supports the generation of vCenter alarms corresponding with UCP

device events on vCenter

UCP device alerts and events - Displays UCP device-specific events and alerts in the device summary screen

vRLI integration - Provides UCP device log analysis

Known Problems

Manually Removing Content after Uninstallation

Although the uninstallation scripts removes most existing UCP Advisor

content from the most recent installation, it does not remove all of

the content. To ensure all content from the previous version of UCP

Advisor is not present, you need to manually remove the content that

the uninstallation script does not take out. To manually remove this content, perform the following steps:

1. Log into vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) using the root

credential.

2. Run the following two commands to remove content that the

uninstallation script has not taken out:



rm -rf /etc/vmware/vsphere-client/vc- packages/vsphere-client-serenity/ com.hitachi.ucp.advisor-*

rm -rf /etc/vmware/vsphere -client/cmCatalog/com.vmware.ciscom.hitachi .ucp.advisor.zip

3. Browse to the following path:

https://<VCSA_IP_Address>/mob

4. Select hitachi.ucp.advisor extension and unregister the

extension.

5. Go to VCSA again and run the following command to restart the

Web Client service:

service web-client restart

You have removed the content that the uninstallation script could

take out.

The following list details other known issues in the product.

The UCP Advisor tasks do not display under My Tasks under

Recent tasks.

Workaround: Click Global Refresh to refresh My Tasks.

A VLAN name with more than 14 characters is truncated,

displaying the asterisk (*) character.

When you select any device type to add, only a Network device is added.

Cause: The check on the network type is performed only after a

device is added. The display value is correct once the software

adds the device.



When scheduling days for a backup, make sure to schedule

only consecutive days. If you create a backup for non-

consecutive days (for example, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday), the backup will occur continuously every 15 minutes until the

first non-consecutive day (in this case, Thursday).

HiSupport.bat does not collect all log files.

Workaround: To collect all logs use the Log Bundle feature.

The Device Status display incorrectly does not indicate an

unreachable status when a device is unreachable.

While UCP Advisor supports the VMware vSphere Web Client

on Chrome version 54, a recent version, some features might

not work properly on later versions.

The Create command device operation may fail from Toolbox

when proxy settings are enabled.

Workaround: Enable bypass proxy server for the local

addresses option in the proxy settings.

Documentation

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1 Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows PowerShell

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3 Hitachi Storage Adapter for VMware vRealize Orchestrator

4 Hitachi Compute Connector for VMware vRealize Orchestrator

5 Hitachi Storage Content Pack for VMware vRealize Log Insight

6 Hitachi Compute Content Pack for VMware vRealize Log Insight

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcac-pubs.html



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terms of your agreement(s) with Hitachi Data Systems.



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