Registering UCS manager with UCS Central

UCS Central is the centralized management tool for managing UCS domain.

Prerequisites : 

1. Make sure NTP server name and time zone matches exactly between the UCS central and UCS manager. Lot of time I  get into trouble in registering the UCS manager with UCS central due to this .

you can set this on UCS manager ----> admin -----> Time Zone Management 

 On UCS central Administration----->General-----> Date/time

2. Ucs central IP address and  Shared Secret password is required for this


Actual Steps :

Step 1:

Goto UCS Manager ----> Admin ----> UCS central   ( if you not seeing this option under Admin tab then check the filter under Admin tab and make sure either UCS central is selected or ALL is selected)

Step 2 :

click Register with UCS Central

Step 3:

update the UCS Central ip and Shared secret password


Step 4:

if you want to change some policy revolution control  to global  ( which means it will get the settings from UCS central ) you can select that as global or you can change this anytime after registration


Step 5:

click ok and accept 

Step 6:

once it is properly registered wtth UCS central then the repair state is showing as done and  Registration status will be showing as Registered . Check the FSM tab to see the progress

step 7:

On the UCS Central login  navigate to Equipment ---> UCS domain ------> Ungrouped domains and  UCS manager will be listing there if the registration is successful

 

Step 8: 

Right click on the UCS manager under Ungrouped Domain and click change group assignment

Step 9: 

 Select the proper domain Group , either put that on root domain group or you can create a sub domain group. I would prefer to create a sub domain group  and click yes for changing the group.

Step 10:

check the ucs manager is showing under the Domain group

How to expand or resize the netapp lun which is having snapmirror

Below are the simple steps to expand the or resize the snapmirror lun.

Step 1:  Note down the source volume name and destination volume name

Step 2: ssh into both source and destination netapp controller

Step 3: On the destination or target netapp ssh session  run the below command

            a. priv set advanced
            b. snapmirror break "destination volume name"
            c. vol options "destination volume name" fs_size_fixed off
            d. vol size "destination volume name"  1000g  ( here I am resizing the lun from 500 to 1000 GB)
                 Note: please change the size of the lun according to the requirement
           e.  vol options " destination volume name" fs_size_fixed on

step 4. On the source netapp ssh session run the below command

            a. priv set advanced
            b. vol options "source volume name" fs_size_fixed off
            c. vol size "source volume name"  1000g  ( here I am resizing the lun from 500 to 1000 GB)
                 Note: please change the size of the lun according to the requirement
           d. vol options " source volume name" fs_size_fixed on
       
step 5. On the destination netapp ssh session run the below command
     
           a.snapmirror resync -S sourcefiler:sourcevolumename targetfiler:targetvolumenane