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Procedure To Discover Chassis Using Cisc

This document discusses configuring equipment policies, ports, and acknowledging a chassis in Cisco UCS Manager to discover the chassis. Key steps include: 1. Configuring the equipment policy for chassis/FEX discovery and power. 2. Configuring ports on the Fabric Interconnects as server ports based on cabling. 3. The chassis will be discovered under the Equipment tab once policies and ports are configured. 4. You can acknowledge the chassis if the number of links change to update Fabric Interconnect awareness.

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Procedure To Discover Chassis Using Cisc

This document discusses configuring equipment policies, ports, and acknowledging a chassis in Cisco UCS Manager to discover the chassis. Key steps include: 1. Configuring the equipment policy for chassis/FEX discovery and power. 2. Configuring ports on the Fabric Interconnects as server ports based on cabling. 3. The chassis will be discovered under the Equipment tab once policies and ports are configured. 4. You can acknowledge the chassis if the number of links change to update Fabric Interconnect awareness.

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Contents

Introduction
Configuring the Equipment Policy
Configuring Ports
Acknowledging a Chassis
Related Information

Introduction
This document describes the procedure to discover the Chassis using the Cisco Unified
Computing System (UCS) Manager. Once the physical connection and the cluster configuration is
completed , the next step is to configure the polices and ports to perform the chassis discovery. In
this article, you can see how to configure the equipment policies and discovery of the
chassis. Once the chassis is discovered, you can see the chassis components like server
modules, IO adapters in the UCS manager’s Equipments tab.

Configuring the Equipment Policy


1. Assume that you have only one connections from each I/O Module (IOM) to Fabric
Interconnect (FI).

2. Login to UCS manager.

3. Navigate to Equipment > Policies > Global policies.


In Chassis/FEX discover policy tab, Here you should select the number of links that are connected
between an individual IOM and Fabric Interconnect pair. For instance, in the drawing displayed
earlier each IOM had one connections to its associated Fabric Interconnect. Thus, a 1 link policy
is created. This policy is essentially just specifying how many connections need to be present for a
chassis to be discovered.

In Power Policy tab select one of the below option:

In the Power Policy area, click one of the following radio buttons in the Redundancy field:

● Non Redundant—All installed power supplies are turned on and the load is evenly balanced.
Only smaller configurations (requiring less than 2500W) can be powered by a single power
supply.
● n+1—The total number of power supplies to satisfy non-redundancy, plus one additional
power supply for redundancy, are turned on and equally share the power load for the chassis.
If any additional power supplies are installed, Cisco UCS Manager sets them to a "turned-off"
state.
● Grid—Two power sources are turned on, or the chassis requires greater than N+1
redundancy. If one source fails (which causes a loss of power to one or two power supplies),
the surviving power supplies on the other power circuit continue to provide power to the
chassis.

Configuring Ports
Step 1. From Equipment tab, navigate to Fabric Interconnects > Fabric Interconnect A/B.
Then expand any Fixed or Expansion modules as necessary. Configure the appropriate un-
configured ports as Server.

Note: You have to do the cabling accordingly from IOM to FI. For an example, if you have
connected to the port number 2 from FI-A to IOM – A and port 2 from FI-B to IOM – B , you
need to configure only those ports.
Step 2. Right click the port and click in configure as server port for each port that you have
connected with IOM (Chassis).

Step 3. After configuring the server ports on Fabric interconnect A , you can see the link status like
below. (Overall status UP).

Step 4. Similarly you need to configure the ports on fabric interconnect -B.
Once you have configured the ports, chassis is discovered and it is to be listed under the
equipment tab. In the above screenshot, you can see that chassis 1 is discovered.

Acknowledging a Chassis

Lastly, you can acknowledge the chassis, if you increase or decrease the number of links that
connect the chassis to the fabric interconnect. Acknowledging the chassis ensures that Fabric
interconnect is aware of the change in the number of links and that traffics flows along all
available links. After you enable or disable a port on a fabric interconnect, wait for at least 1 minute
before you reacknowledge the chassis. If you re-acknowledge the chassis too soon, the pinning of
server traffic from the chassis may not be updated with the changes to the port that you enabled or
disabled.

Step 1 In the Navigation pane, click the Equipment tab.


Step 2 On the Equipment tab, expand Equipment > Chassis.
Step 3 Choose the chassis that you want to acknowledge.
Step 4 In the Work pane, click the General tab.
Step 5 In the Actions area, click Acknowledge Chassis.
Step 6 If Cisco UCS Manager displays a confirmation dialog box, click Yes.Cisco UCS Manager disconn
the chassis and then rebuilds the connections between the chassis and the fabric interconnect or
fabric interconnects in the system

Related Information
● {http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/gui/config/guide/2-
0/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_0/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_0_ch
apter_0100010.html
● Technical Support & Documentation - Cisco Systems

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