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Cisco UCS Director provides several different kinds of reports that you can use to view the current status of a pod and its components or to see how the pod or its component have performed over time. All of these reports can be manually refreshed for real-time data and exported to PDF, CSV, or XLS format for you to share with others.
The available reports include:
Summary reports for comparison data and other information about the pod or its components. These reports display in bar, pie, and tabular chart widgets on Summary pages.
Tabular reports for detailed information about specific components.
Trend graphs for information about the performance of pod resources over time.
Stack views for a graphical bar view of the infrastructure in a VM.
More reports include Top 5 reports and other reports for detailed information about high-performing pod resources. You can customize some of these reports.
Summary reports enable you to view the status of your HyperFlex pods and to manage inventory lifecycle actions for the pods and their components. Each report displays as a widget on a Summary page at the pod level and the cluster level.
You can customize your Summary pages to hide one or more reports. You can export the content of these reports in PDF, CSV, or XLS format. You can also add some or all of these reports to your Cisco UCS Director dashboard for quick access.
The summary reports for All Pods comparison include the following in graphical and tabular formats:
Active VM Distribution by Pod
Total Storage Capacity by Pod (in GB)
Overview
The summary reports for each HyperFlex pod include the following in graphical and tabular formats:
Storage Capacity of the Pod (in GB)
Cluster Nodes in Active vs Maintenance/Failed
Active VMs vs Inactive VMs
Summary of the pod components, including software versions and cluster status
Storage Capacity Summary
ESXi Host Versions
For more information about summary reports and reporting in Cisco UCS Director, see the Cisco UCS Director Administration Guide.
Tabular reports provide the status of the components in a HyperFlex pod. You can export the data from any tabular report in PDF, CSV, or XLS format. If you have scheduled inventory collection, the status is updated regularly. Otherwise, you can click Refresh on the tabular report to get real-time status.
You can access tabular reports from any page after you choose the HyperFlex pod. Reports are available for the following components:
For some components, you can click a row in the tabular report and access more detailed information through View Details.
Stack views provide information about a HyperFlex VM in a graphical format, including the compute, network, and storage configuration and resources available to that VM.
The stack view data includes:
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Compute |
Network |
Storage |
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OS |
OS installed on the VM |
OS installed on the VM |
OS installed on the VM |
VM |
VM name |
VM name |
VM name |
Network adapter and port |
Virtual disk |
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Hypervisor |
Hypervisor version, IP address, and cluster |
Hypervisor version, IP address, and cluster |
Hypervisor version, IP address, and cluster |
Port group and VLAN |
Datastore |
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VSwitch |
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Infrastructure |
Server where the VM is located |
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HX Storage Cluster where the VM is located |
To access the stack view, choose VMs, choose a VM, and then click Stack View.
When you add a HyperFlex pod, Cisco UCS Director discovers and collects the inventory of that pod. You can view the collected inventory and the status of the HyperFlex pod and its components in the summary reports and on the report pages. This status can be updated on a regular schedule through system tasks and manually by component.
The HyperFlex system tasks enable you to schedule inventory collection for each HyperFlex pod. Depending on your business needs, you can set the same schedule for all HyperFlex pods or you can set a different schedule for some pods. You can specify the number of hours or minutes to automatically run the inventory collection and update the status of the HyperFlex pod.
For more information about scheduling system tasks, see the Cisco UCS Director Administration Guide.
Even if you have scheduled inventory collection with system tasks, you can manually perform an inventory collection for a HyperFlex pod or its components. For example, you can manually refresh the inventory and status in the following ways:
Refresh—Updates the data in summary reports and tabular reports. This action is available for a HyperFlex pod and its components, such as clusters, controller nodes, datastores, disks, and VMs.
Inventory Collection—Performs an inventory collection for a component of a pod. This action is available for individual components, such as a VM, an ESXi host, or an HX Server.
A HyperFlex (HX) cluster is a group of Cisco HX-Series Servers. Each Cisco HX-Series Server in the cluster is referred to as a node or host, and must be configured identically to ensure failover works correctly. You can use Cisco UCS Director to view and manage the following components of your HX Cluster:
Cluster Summary
Controller Nodes
vSwitches
The HX Cluster Consistent column provides information regarding whether the vSwitch configuration is consistent across HX Cluster Nodes. The cluster is consistent if the vSwitch exists on each node, the vSwitch has the same number of uplinks and the uplinks have the same configuration, and the vSwitch has the same security configuration.
DvSwitches
The HX Cluster Consistent column provides information regarding whether the DvSwitch configuration exists across HX Cluster Nodes.
HX Servers
Disk Details
Port Groups
VMs
Dv Port Groups
VMs
Physical NICs
VMs
vmkNICs
VLANs
The Delete VLAN unassociates the selected VLAN from the respective vNICs and then deletes the VLAN associated to the service profile or service profile templates.
The Create a Port Group task creates a new port group for the VM on the selected vSwitch. It also provides an option to create a VLAN on Cisco UCS and updates all of the vNICS of HyperFlex cluster nodes.
Step 1 | Choose . |
Step 2 | On the HyperFlex page, choose the pod. |
Step 3 | On the HyperFlex page, click Clusters. |
Step 4 | Click the row with the cluster that you want to manage and click View Details. |
Step 5 | Click Port Groups. |
Step 6 | Click the row with the port group with a VLAN ID that you want to delete and from the More Actions drop-down list, choose Delete. |
Step 7 | On the Delete Port Group screen, complete the fields to delete the port group: |
Step 8 | Click Delete to delete the selected Port group. |
This task creates a new Dv port group on the selected vSwitch. It also provides an option to create a VLAN on Cisco UCS and updates all of the vNICS of HyperFlex cluster nodes.
Cisco UCS Director supports all ESXi host operations on HyperFlex as it does for converged infrastructure. In addition, it supports the following ESXi host operations only for HyperFlex:
See the Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform Management Guide for information about ESXi maintenance mode for ESXi hosts on HyperFlex.
Note | Cisco UCS Director supports only ESXi maintenance mode for ESXi hosts on HyperFlex. Cisco UCS Director does not support Cisco HX maintenance mode. To use Cisco HX maintenance, right-click on the ESXi host in VMware vCenter and follow the prompts. |
Step 1 | Choose . |
Step 2 | On the HyperFlex page, choose the pod. |
Step 3 | On the HyperFlex page, click ESXi Hosts. |
Step 4 | Choose the ESXi host that you want to move into or out of maintenance mode and click ESXi HX Maintenance mode. |
Step 5 | On the ESXi HX Maintenance mode screen in ESXi Action, choose one of the following:
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Step 6 | Click Submit. |
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Step 2 | On the HyperFlex page, choose the pod. | ||||
Step 3 | On the HyperFlex page, click VMs. | ||||
Step 4 | Click the row with the VM that you want to manage and click one of the following options:
Some of these options are available only from the More Actions drop-down list.
You can also click Stack View, and View Details to access trend reports and details about service requests, VM action requests, events, VM snapshots, vNICs, disks, CD ROMs, VM access data, and linked clone VMs. These details are specific to features and actions related to VMware vCenter. For detailed information about these features and actions, see the Cisco UCS Director VMware vSphere Management Guide.
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