We proceed to open a browser and enter via HTTPS the virtual IP that we saw to access the UCS Manager GUI. Console login Step # 5 – Access the Web GUI In this way you can confirm which is the Virtual IP with which the appliance was uploaded to proceed to enter the GUI through the Web.
The platform in the banner gives us the username (“ucspe”) and password (“ucspe”) to access the console. The signal for you to know that the system is up and running is when you get the Login that you see in image # 6. This process can take about 10 minutes or more, so be patient. During this process we do nothing, just wait. In image # 5 we see how the appliance boot process begins and then a self-installation and configuration process of the Emulator begins. Network Adaptater type: Host Only Step # 4 – Start the VM and Perform Basic Settings The process is repeated for the 3 virtual network interfaces. But you can directly choose the option that says Host-Only or any other VMNet that you have configured. In image # 4 I am choosing VMNet1 in Custom, because I already have this virtual adapter configured as Host-Only for a specific subnet. We are going to choose the Host Only type, which configures a private network between the virtual machine and the host, in this case my computer. Once this process is completed, we are going to change the type of network connection that the virtual machine brings. This import process takes less than a minute. OVA, we simply double-click and it will start importing the virtual machine into VM Workstation as seen in image # 3.
Cisco Software Download Step # 2 – Import the. The appliance weighs approximately 2.3 GB, so the download will take a while depending on the speed of your Internet connection. Since this is deployed inside a preconfigured virtual machine, which we are going to load in VMWare Workstation.
In image # 2 we are already on the official software download page. As you can see in image # 1, the official download link for the emulator is at the link called “UCSPE 4.1 (2c) Downloads”. Link in the Cisco Community Forum on the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator:īy clicking on the link we will be accessing a publication by Eric Williams, where he shares the information and links to download the emulator. OVA image of the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator