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A pod is a logical grouping of physical and virtual components, including one or more physical or virtual accounts, such as an HP account for computing or a NetApp ONTAP account for storage. Typically, a pod represents a single converged infrastructure stack, such as FlexPod, Vblock, or VSPEX.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . | ||||||||||||||
Step 2 | Click the Pods tab. | ||||||||||||||
Step 3 | Click Add. | ||||||||||||||
Step 4 | In the
Add
Pod dialog box, complete the following fields:
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Step 5 | Click Add. |
Add one or more accounts to the pod.
Cisco UCS Director supports the HP ILO version 2, 3, and 4. Cisco UCS Director performs auto-discovery of the HP ILO version and manages all infrastructure elements in the server that are associated with the HP account.
Add the pod to which this HP account belongs.
Cisco UCS Director tests the connection to the HP server. If that test is successful, it adds the HP account and discovers all infrastructure elements in the server that are associated with that account, including servers information, slots, processors, memory, and NICs. This discovery process and inventory collection cycle takes approximately five minutes to complete.
The polling interval configured on the System Tasks tab on the window specifies the frequency of inventory collection. For more information about configuring the polling interval, see the Cisco UCS Director Network Devices Management Guide.
You can test the connection at any time after you add an account to a pod.
If the connection fails, verify the configuration of the account, including the username and password. If those items are correct, determine whether there is a network connectivity problem.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . | ||
Step 2 | In the left
pane, choose the pod that includes the
HP account that
you want to verify.
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Step 3 | Click the Compute Accounts tab. | ||
Step 4 | In the table, click the row of the account that you want to verify. | ||
Step 5 | Click
View
Details.
Cisco UCS Director displays the iLO server details of that account that it has discovered. | ||
Step 6 | Click Back to return to the Compute Accounts tab. |