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.

First log into one of your 6248s and figure out which one is the primary by running the command below.

ucs01-A# show cluster state
Cluster Id: 0x4b05e6042b6111e1-0x8c9e547fee4bbf24

A: UP, SUBORDINATE
B: UP, PRIMARY

Note that UCS01-B is our primary. So log into UCS-B and issue the command below.

ucs01-B# connect local-mgmt

Then run the command to make UCS-A our primary.

ucs01-B(local-mgmt)# cluster lead a
Cluster Id: 0x4b05e6042b6111e1-0x8c9e547fee4bbf24

Note that you must issue the failover command on the node that is the primary, otherwise this happens.

ucs01-A(local-mgmt)# cluster lead a
Cluster Id: 0x4b05e6042b6111e1-0x8c9e547fee4bbf24
request failed: local node is subordinate

During the failover process you will see the output below when checking the cluster state.

ucs01-B(local-mgmt)# show cluster state

Cluster Id: 0x4b05e6042b6111e1-0x8c9e547fee4bbf24 B: UP, PRIMARY, (Management services: SWITCHOVER IN PROGRESS) A: UP, SUBORDINATE,

(Management services: SWITCHOVER IN PROGRESS) HA NOT READY Management services: switchover in progress on local Fabric Interconnect