UCS Manager equipment re-inventory or reset?

[ronpiecyk]

I have a Cisco UCS deployment that was moved from one datacenter to another - 5 chassis' with 40 blades (8 in each chassis).

When brought back online at the new datacenter, only 3 of the 5 chassis' were brough back online, with 24 blades (8 in each). The reimaining 2 chassis' and 16 blades were ungracefully retired - they were not removed from UCS Manager prior.

Additionally, the remaining blades have all been reinserted into different chassis and slots, and the connections from the chassis IOM's to the FI's are unsing different ports now as well.

In UCS Manager, all of the chassis' show a status of "Accessibility problem".
All of the blades are in a "decommisioned" state.
All of the IOM's are in an "inoperable" state.

At this point, we want to start from scratch and reconfigure things fresh. is there a way to have the FI's re-inventory all of the hardware, so that we can then associate the service profiles to the blades?

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Wes Austin]

If the servers were not properly decommissioned before being moved, thats likely related. I would start fresh by decomming each chassis and re-acknowledging it, so that UCSM knows where each blade is and can re-inventory appropriately

[Steven Tardy]

To add on to what Wes said. I would:

1. Decommission all servers / chassis
   1. There should be nothing in equipment and all in [Decommissioned] tab.
2. Un-configure all FI server ports (leave uplinks ports configured).
3. Delete all servers / chassis from [Decommissioned] tab.
   1. This will make sure UCS has "forgotten" about everything and chassis 1 is now chassis 1 and not chassis 3.
4. Re-configure server ports one by one letting each chassis start discovery before moving on to the next.

Hope that helps.