Cisco UCS Plugins for VMware vSphere Web Client and vCenter/vRealize Orchestrator

Jeffrey Foster · ‎11-08-2013

The following Plugin for VMware vSphere Web Client is available for download from Cisco.com:

Cisco UCS Manager Plugin Release 2.0.3 for VMware vSphere Web Client:

Details on this release

Downloads:

Documentation Links:

Cisco UCS Manager Plugin Release 2.x for VMware vSphere Web Client - Release Notes
Cisco UCS Manager Plugin Release 2.x for VMware vSphere Web Client - User Guide

External customers - For any issues, contact Cisco TAC (highly recommended for quick resolution) or add a discussion to the Cisco Developed Integrations sub-space on Cisco UCS Communities. Send your suggestions for new features/enhancements to ucs-vmw-plugins@cisco.com.

Internal (Cisco) customers and employees - Contact us at ucs-vcplugin@cisco.com for support questions and ucs-vmw-plugins@cisco.com for roadmap questions, new feature requests and feedback.

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Cisco UCS Manager Plugin Release 1.0.1 for VMware vCenter Orchestrator:

Cisco UCS Manager Plugin for vCenter/vRealize Orchestrator (Release 1.0(1))

Downloads:

Cisco UCS Manager Plugin for VMware vCenter Orchestrator v1.0.1

Documentation Links:

External customers - For any issues, contact Cisco TAC (highly recommended for quick resolution) or add a discussion to the Cisco Developed Integrations sub-space on Cisco UCS Communities. Send your suggestions for new features/enhancements to ucs-vmw-plugins@cisco.com.

Internal (Cisco) customers and employees - Contact us at ucs-vco@cisco.com for support questions and ucs-vmw-plugins@cisco.com for roadmap questions, new feature requests and feedback.

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Cisco UCS Central Plugin Release 1.0 for VMware vRealize Orchestrator:

Cisco UCS Central Plugin for VMware vRealize Orchestrator (Release 1.0)

Downloads:

Cisco UCS Central Plugin for VMware vRealize Orchestrator v1.0

Documentation Links:

External customers - For any issues, contact Cisco TAC (highly recommended for quick resolution) or add a discussion to the Cisco Developed Integrations sub-space on Cisco UCS Communities. Send your suggestions for new features/enhancements to ucs-vmw-plugins@cisco.com.

Internal (Cisco) customers and employees - Contact us at ucs-vco@cisco.com for support questions and ucs-vmw-plugins@cisco.com for roadmap questions, new feature requests and feedback.

Amitrajit Chatterjee · ‎12-30-2013

For registering the plugin the default url does not work but if you select "Enter Plugin URL" and then type in "https://communities.cisco.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/36989-2-55056/ucs-vcplugin-0.9.2.zip" it works fine.

reswaran · ‎01-01-2014

Thanks Amitrajit for the catch. We have moved away from CDN. So the URL need to be modified within the registration tool.

Amitrajit Chatterjee · ‎01-02-2014

Also I'm running it on Esxi5.5 and UCSM 2.1(3a) without issues.

hklw_cisco · ‎01-06-2014

hello, how did you get it to run ? I allways get an error that vSphere PowerCLI 5.1 must be installed. Version 5.5.0 is installed and i set the restrictions in PowerCLI to unresticted.

hklw_cisco · ‎01-06-2014

after deinstalling PowerCLI 5.5 and installing v5.1 i did get it to run and register the PlugIn....

Amitrajit Chatterjee · ‎01-06-2014

Yeah, I' had to do the same thing.

matthewburchett · ‎01-14-2014

Is this plug-in only compatible with the 5.1 vCenter web client? I am running 5.5 in the lab and was able to successfully register the plug-in, but it is not popping up in the Administration view.

Amitrajit Chatterjee · ‎01-15-2014

I was able to run it on ESXi 5.5 and UCSM 2.1(3a) without issues. After installing it, had to wait for a few minutes then logged out and logged back in. Then it popped up.

matthewburchett · ‎01-15-2014

Still not seeing it a day later. I am running ESXi 5.5, vSphere Web Client 5.5.0 Build 1369380, UCSM 2.1(3a). I have restarted the vCenter server service and the Web Client service. I did do the install using an HTTP server, so made the appropriate change to webclient.properties, adding allowHttp=true. I received a success message on the install, and can see the plugin under "Manage Plugins" in the Windows vSphere Client.

Amitrajit Chatterjee · ‎01-15-2014

OK that step is different since I just used the CDN URL directly, but not sure if that makes any difference.

vaibjain · ‎01-15-2014

You can verify that your plug-in package deployed correctly by searching the log file on the vSphere Web Client Virgo server for "com.cisco.ucs.vcplugin". If the package deployed correctly, the plug-in package ID is included in a message about a succ...

On the Windows operating system, the file appears in the following location.

%PROGRAMDATA%/VMware/vSphere%20Web%20Client/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity/

On the Linux operating system, the file appears in the following location.

/var/lib/vmware/vsphere-client/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity/

If packages are not here, web-client is unable to download/extract the plugin zip for some reason.

beausoleil stephane · ‎01-29-2014

Hi,

the environment I am trying to deploy the plug-in into does not have a internet access and does not sport either a free to use IIS server.

is there a way around using a web url to deploy the plug-in? the file is here on my disk? why would I need a IIS server to deploy a file I really don't get this... am I missing something?

thanks for any help.

Stephane

vaibjain · ‎01-29-2014

Hi Stephane,

The web client plugin registers the plugin url. The actual files gets downloaded only when the web client gets launched. The server checks the files on the server if files does not exist, then it downloads the files from http(s) server.

You may try directly unzipping the files in following directory:

<Web client dir>\plugin-packages

Eg. C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere Web Client\plugin-packages

Create a folder ucs-vcplugin and unzip the plugin file.

You should now have the following directory structure in the VMware vSphere client directory:

plugin-packages/

ucs-vcplugin/

plugin-package.xml

plugins/

Then restart the vsphere web-client service.

This should work.

Regards,

Vaibhav

beausoleil stephane · ‎01-30-2014

Thanks that did the trick

I would never have found this out.

Thanks a gain.

Stephane Beausoleil

beausoleil stephane · ‎02-03-2014

Hi,

OK plugin install and working.

Now If I try to register one of my six domain I get this error:

Now UCS port 443 is open and responding to telnet from my WS.

anything I am missing? Would it be because my ucs domain are already ergistered with ucs Central?

Thanks

Stephane.