Adding an extra UCS Chassis – the configuration minutes

There has been a lot of really positive feedback on the original “adding an extra UCS Chassis” video. In that video we demonstrated how long it took to unpack, rack, cable and power-up a new UCS chassis. I also talked about the time required to to complete the configuration and boot ESXi from the new blade.

But I didn’t show you the actual configuration steps and that is what this new video will do. I’ve been asked why I didn’t include the configuration minutes in the first video. The primary reason is that the screen capture software I used (Snag-It) recorded it in a resolution that turned out to be too low to be useful.

The solution was to re-record the configuration minutes, this time at a high quality. For this I used Screenflow software. I walked through the exact same steps to enable the interfaces, discover the new chassis & blade and then create a Service Profile to boot ESXi from the new blade.

As you can see, there isn’t a lot too it. UCS Manager takes care of most of the work.