Cisco Confidential © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1 Cisco UCS Director – Carmel (5.0) Ravikumar Pisupati Senior Manager, Engineering June, 2013

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2 Cisco UCSD Bare Metal Agent

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3 Objectives  Learn BMA Agenda  BMA Management  BMA Configuration  PXE Management using BMA  Report

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4 Bare Metal Provisioning involves 1.Add Bare Metal Agent account. 2.Configure DHCP for the PXE subnet in BMA. 3.Support for managing network services in BMA. 4.Support for PXE Request workflow tasks. 5.On demand PXE Request support. 6.PXE Task report

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5 Administration -> Physical Account -> Bare Metal Agents -> Add

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6 Administration -> Physical Accounts -> Bare Metal Agents -> Select BMA Account

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7 Start Services -> Configures BMA and start Network Services From the BMA logs make sure that BMA is able to talk to UCSD and status is coming as “active” for the BMA report. BMA logs can be viewed in UCSD with “View BMA Logs” action button

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8 Stop Services -> Stops Network Services in BMA Service Status - > Service status in BMA and DB connectivity to UCSD Set Default BMA -> Make the selected as default BMA Configure DHCP -> DHCP Configuration View DHCP Configuration -> DHCP Configuration from BMA View DHCP Logs - > Logs from /var/log/messages View BMA Logs -> Network Services logs from BMA

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9 Administration -> Physical Accounts -> Bare Metal Agents -> Select BMA Account -> Configure DHCP /etc/dhcpd.conf in BMA appliance will be updated and DHCP service will be restarted once DHCP configuration form is submitted.

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10 Physical -> Compute -> POD -> PXE BOOT Request

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11 Specify the MAC address of the Bare Metal or VM for which PXE boot need to be performed. Specify other parameters like Hostname, password, Server address, time zone, etc. for the VM/BM Select the target BMA and image for PXE Boot. Once the request is successfully submitted, select the record and perform “Setup PXE Environment” action. Watch target BMA logs to make sure the configuration files got created in BMA

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12 Submitted - > Request is saved Environment Setup -> Completed Environment setup and ready for PXE Ready -> PXE boot is complete and VM/BM is ready to use Archived -> Performed “Clean PXE Environment” action

© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13 Power on VM/BM Check DHCP logs for handshake messages Check BMA logs for configuration file read activities Make sure DHCP configuration is correct and DHCP and HTTP service is up, incase PXE boot is not happening

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© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 15 Set up PXE Boot - > Legacy PXE boot request WF task Setup PXE Boot with BMA selection -> PXE Request task with option to choose BMA Setup Windows PXE boot -> PXE request for Windows images Monitor PXE Boot -> WF task for monitoring PXE boot process Remove PXE Boot Request -> Cleaning up PXE Boot setup