Add a VLAN to a UCS blade via the CLI
Posted: June 21, 2013 Filed under: Cisco UCS | Tags: add vlan ucs cli, ucs cli, vNIC 2 CommentsSo my UCS Manager GUI was having certificate problems today in my test lab and I really wanted to get something done. I think I need to update UCSM from 2.0(1s) to one of the latest, but that’s a project in itself, especially if I can’t just click-click-click my way through. What I really wanted to do was add a couple existing VLANs to the vNIC of an ESXi host on a blade (so I could vMotion some stuff around). Of course, with the GUI, it’s a few clicks. Without the GUI (and not knowing where to go in the CLI), I was at a bit of a loss.
The UCS CLI guide wasn’t helpful as it was more for managing the hardware or upstream configs – not so much for what would seem like a task made for UCSM. So to get on with it, let me share the quick config for adding VLANs to vNICs. This post actually got me in the ballpark (just search for “vlan” in the post), but from there, I was on my own!
So unless you know the exact name of the VLAN you created in UCSM in the first place, you’ll have to look it up. You do that like so:
UCS-A# scope eth-uplink UCS-A# / eth-uplink # show vlan VLAN: Name VLAN ID Fabric ID Native VLAN Sharing Type Primary Vlan ---------- ---------- --------- ----------- ------------ ------------ AC 198 Dual No None CONEXIS-TEST-CIFS1 215 Dual No None CONEXIS-TEST-CIFS2 216 Dual No None CTRL 193 Dual No None CUPS 197 Dual No None default 1 Dual Yes None ISCSI 199 Dual No None ISE 201 Dual No None MGMT 191 Dual No None NCS 202 Dual No None NEXUS1000V 206 Dual No None NFS 207 Dual No None SAMMONS-COLO 78 Dual No None TEST-11082012 233 Dual No None TEST05082012 505 Dual No None UCCX 196 Dual No None UCM 194 Dual No None UCXN 195 Dual No None vCloud300 300 Dual No None vCloud301 301 Dual No None vCloud302 302 Dual No None vCloud303 303 Dual No None vCloud304 304 Dual No None vCloud305 305 Dual No None vCloud306 306 Dual No None vCloud307 307 Dual No None vCloud308 308 Dual No None vCloud309 309 Dual No None vCloud310 310 Dual No None vCloud311 311 Dual No None vCloud312 312 Dual No None vCloud313 313 Dual No None vCloud314 314 Dual No None VFILER-232 232 Dual No None VLAN231-TEST 231 Dual No None vMotion 208 Dual No None WINDOWS 200 Dual No None ZOOM-SPAN 205 Dual No None
Say we want to add VLANs 201 and 202 for ISE and NCS, respectively, to the first vNIC of blade 1 in our only chassis. You’ll have to note the names of these VLANs because that’s how they’re addressed when they’re added. We’ll then move to that particular vNIC scope. So let’s exit back to the main UCS prompt and enter
UCS-A# scope service-profile server 1/1
You’ll also have to address the vNIC by it’s given name, so find that with
UCS-A /org/service-profile # show vnic vNIC: Name Fabric ID Dynamic MAC Addr ---------- --------- ---------------- vNIC1 A B 00:25:B5:00:00:7F vNIC2 B A 00:25:B5:00:00:6F UCS-A /org/service-profile # scope vnic vNIC1
You add the VLAN with this command
UCS-A /org/service-profile/vnic # create eth-if ISE
You’ll see the prompt change again, including as asterisk at the end to indicate you haven’t committed your changes. So commit the changes like so
UCS-A /org/service-profile/vnic/eth-if* # commit-buffer
Finally, you can verify you’ve added the VLAN by running
UCS-A /org/service-profile/vnic # show eth-if Name: ISE Dynamic MAC Addr: 00:25:B5:00:00:7F Default Network: No VLAN ID: 201 Operational VLAN: fabric/lan/net-ISE Name: NCS Dynamic MAC Addr: 00:25:B5:00:00:7F Default Network: No VLAN ID: 202 Operational VLAN: fabric/lan/net-NCS
I don’t know how often someone would need this, but I know I didn’t find a walkthrough on it – there’s one now, though!
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