I've spun up UCS Director and created my first VM via automation - woo!  Now I'm confused as to how my users can access it.  I configured UCSD to deploy a VM with Windows 2008 R2, and it successfully mounts the ISO.  However, it's waiting on user input at the VMware console. Is this as far as a standard catalog can go?  Can it complete the Windows installation and give it an IP address, or does that require a VM image?  Trying to learn Jeff ... View more

I've spun up UCS Director and created my first VM via automation - woo!  Now I'm confused as to how my users can access it.  I configured UCSD to deploy a VM with Windows 2008 R2, and it successfully mounts the ISO.  However, it's waiting on user input at the VMware console. Is this as far as a standard catalog can go?  Can it complete the Windows installation and give it an IP address, or does that require a VM image?  Trying to learn Jeff ... View more

I followed the installation guide for installation of UCSPM 2.0 via the docker container (Control Center) web gui.  Everything installed fine, but I get no access to the UCSPM URL via my web browser.  Part of my question is, when asked for an IP address, was I wrong to use the same IP address I use to access the Control Center?  The documentation is unclear but I thought that's what they wanted me to do. The domain entry for my server is test-ucspm.  So now my UCSPM CC is available via test-ucspm.domain.com, but I cannot access UCSPM itself at ucspm.test-ucspm.domain.com.  So again - was I wrong to use the same address?  If so, is there a way to change it?  Or is there another reason I cannot access it? Many thanks to anyone who can offer some sanity :) Jeff ... View more

When I use DCNM to discover a Nexus 5548, entering its mgmt0 address (172.16.x.190) as the seed, DCNM finds it but lists it as 1.1.1.190.  It takes a long time to discover for some reason, too.  When I open the fabric, it cannot access the switch until I change its address manually, at which point it seems to fully access the device. However, the fabric seed address is still listed as 1.1.1.190. Any idea what's going on here? ... View more

Hey all, I'm doing some UCS studying and I'm trying to understand how private-vlans work within UCS, but there's surprisingly little documentation on the subject.  So far, based mostly on trial-and-error, these seem to be the rules for using pvlans in UCSM:  - only isolated type is allowed  - no promiscuous ports within UCS  - a vNIC can carry the secondary vlan ID only (no other vlans can ride alongside it, including the primary)  - the primary vlan can never be used on a vNIC   Despite this, I cannot get a VM to speak to its upstream promiscuous port/gateway.  One document I found suggested the vNIC should not set the secondary vlan as native, but that seems to have no effect either way (even looking at the veth config at the CLI).  The same document suggested VMware should tag the traffic, which would require the 1000V.  Based on the CLI configuration, I'm guessing that's not true, but I could easily be wrong. Does anyone know of a good guide for this, or maybe could even point me in the right direction for getting pvlans to work within UCS?  Thanks! Jeff ... View more