UCS Central Pools

[madennis]

                   Hi, when I create pools in UCS Central they do not get updated in UCS Platform Emulator 2.1.1a, is this normal behaviour?.  I have tried IP Pools, ext-mgmt IP Pools, and MAC pools, either way they cannot be referenced in UCSPE which is successfully registered and in domain group.  The UCS Central apears to be able to read from the UCSPE but not write to it.  Please confirm whether this is expected or there is a trick or issue to overcome?. Thanks

[Jeffrey Silberman]

The Global Pools (created in UCS Central) do not show up in the UCSM GUI (PE or real) under the "Pools" tree.   But --- if you're changing the UUID/MAC/WWxN for any of the local resources, then you should indeed have visibility to the Global Pool names from the resource's corresponding ID pool drop-down menu in the GUI.  For example, changing the MAC Pool for a VNIC or VNIC template  --- you should be able to see globally defined pool names.  

Note that for 2.1.1a, with UUID changes you can see "Global Pools" and "Domain Pools", whereas for VNICs and VHBAs, you'll see both global and local pool names listed together.  [Therefore, it's always a best practice to prefix global pool names with "Global-" or "G-", to easily distinguish.]

Hope this helps,

-Jeff