Cisco UCS Failover Via 6248 CLI

Need to fail over Cisco UCS Manager from one 6248 to another. Oh did I mention that you are in a hurry because you are going to have to sift through pages and pages of pdfs to get the information. I found this out the hard way. Anyway, out of the kindness of my heart I have documented this process below.

Cisco UCS Visio Stencils

Cisco UCS Visio Stencils -- Use the link below and scroll down to "Unified Computing and Servers", and select "Unified Computing System" and download the zip file. Currently (as of 12/2014) you can cut to the chase and use the direct link below:

How Not to Assign KVM IP Addresses Via Cisco UCS Manager

After a few hours poking around a newly deployed UCS cluster trying to get some basic profiles created and assigned. I realized that I had actually no idea how the KVM is actually supposed to work inside the UCS cluster. Which is funny as this was a subject that we touched on during my DCUDC class. Apparently we did not touch on it enough.