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A multi-domain manager is an application that can manage more than one domain. For example, Cisco UCS Central is a multi-domain manager that manages one or more registered Cisco UCS domains.
Each Cisco UCS Central account represents a single Cisco UCS Central, plus all the Cisco UCS domains registered with that Cisco UCS Central.
When you create a Cisco UCS Central account all Cisco UCS domains that are registered with that Cisco UCS Central, and their related Cisco UCS Manager accounts, are imported into Cisco UCS Director. You can assign one or more of those Cisco UCS Manager accounts from the Cisco UCS Central account to a pod if needed. You can also register a Cisco UCS Manager account with a Cisco UCS Central account.
Note | Cisco UCS Central is a multi-domain manager; you do not create the Cisco UCS Central account in a pod. |
Cisco UCS Director tests the connection to Cisco UCS Central. If that test is successful, it adds the Cisco UCS Central account and discovers all infrastructure elements and registered Cisco UCS domains in that account, including chassis, servers, fabric interconnects, service profiles, and pools. This discovery process and inventory collection cycle takes approximately five minutes to complete.
The polling interval configured on the Infrastructure System Parameters tab specifies the frequency of inventory collection.
You can test the connection at any time after you add an account to a pod.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . |
Step 2 | Click the tab
for the type of account that you want to test.
For example, click the Physical Accounts tab or the Multi-Domain Managers tab. |
Step 3 | In the table, click the row of the account for which you want to test the connection. |
Step 4 | Click Test Connection. |
Step 5 | When the connection test has completed, click Close. |
If the connection fails, verify the configuration of the account, including the username and password. If the username and password are correct, determine whether there is a network connectivity problem.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . |
Step 2 | In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers. |
Step 3 | In the left pane, click UCS Central Accounts. |
Step 4 | In the right pane, click the row in the table for the account that you want to verify. |
Step 5 | Click
View
Details.
Cisco UCS Director displays a set of tabs that contain information about the components of that account that it has discovered. |
After you assign a Cisco UCS domain to a pod, Cisco UCS Director displays it as a Cisco UCS Manager account, and you can configure, monitor, and obtain reports on that account.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 2 | In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 3 | In the left pane, expand UCS Central Accounts and then click the Cisco UCS Central account. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 4 | In the right pane, click the All UCS Domains tab. Then click the row in the table for the domain that you want to assign to a pod. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 5 | Click Assign to Pod. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 6 | In the
Assign to
Pod dialog box, complete the following fields:
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Step 7 | Click Submit. |
When you unassign a Cisco UCS domain from a pod, Cisco UCS Director does not delete the related Cisco UCS Manager account. If you want to delete the account, use .
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . |
Step 2 | In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers. |
Step 3 | In the left pane, expand UCS Central Accounts and then click the Cisco UCS Central account. |
Step 4 | In the right pane, click the All UCS Domains tab. Then click the row in the table for the domain that you want to unassign from a pod. |
Step 5 | Click Unassign from Pod. |
Step 6 | In the UCSM Account dialog box, click Submit. |
Organizations
Multi-tenancy allows you to divide the large physical infrastructure of an Cisco UCS domain into logical entities known as organizations. As a result, you can achieve a logical isolation between organizations without providing a dedicated physical infrastructure for each organization.
You can assign unique resources to each tenant through the related organization in the multi-tenant environment. These resources can include different policies, pools, and quality of service definitions. You can also implement locales to assign or restrict user privileges and roles by organization, if you do not want all users to have access to all organizations.
If you set up a multi-tenant environment, all organizations are hierarchical. The top-level organization is always root. The policies and pools that you create in root are system-wide and are available to all organizations in the system. However, any policies and pools created in other organizations are only available to organizations that are above it in the same hierarchy. For example, if a system has organizations named Finance and HR that are not in the same hierarchy, Finance cannot use any policies in the HR organization, and HR cannot access any policies in the Finance organization. However, both Finance and HR can use policies and pools in the root organization.
If you create organizations in a mult-itenant environment, you can also set up one or more of the following for each organization or for a sub-organization in the same hierarchy:
The root organization is always the top level organization.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . |
Step 2 | In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers. |
Step 3 | In the left pane, expand UCS Central Accounts and then click the Cisco UCS Central account. |
Step 4 | In the right pane, click the Organizations tab. |
Step 5 | Click Add. |
Step 6 | In the Add Organization dialog box, complete the following fields: |
Cisco UCS requires a domain-specific time zone setting and an NTP server to ensure the correct time displays in . If you do not configure time zones, the time might not display correctly.
In addition, if your environment includes Cisco UCS Central, you must configure an NTP server and the correct time zone in Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco UCS Central to ensure that they are in sync. If the time and date in the Cisco UCS domain and Cisco UCS Central are out of sync, the registration might fail.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . |
Step 2 | In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers. |
Step 3 | In the left pane, expand UCS Central Accounts and then click the Cisco UCS Central account. |
Step 4 | In the right pane, click the Time Zones tab. |
Step 5 | Click Add. |
Step 6 | In the Add Time Zone dialog box, do the following: |