Cisco UCS Blade Server - USB connection

[Roberto Pancrazio Loiudice]

Hello,

I have a Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server and I want to see the USB at the BIOS of the VM. I know there are two way to connect USB: via KVM cable or via Internal USB port. I need to know what are the differences between this two method. Someone knows what are the differences?

Thanks in advance.

Roberto Loiudice

[Walter Dey · Accepted solution]

Ciao Roberto

Don't use the KVM cable (dongle); this should only be used for troubleshooting purpose.

You have 2 choices: Internal USB, or SD card.

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UCS-USBFLSH-S-4GB
4GB Flash USB Drive (shorter) for all M3 servers

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Dual SDHC flash card sockets are provided
 on the front left side of the server.

NOTE:  
Dual card support (mirroring) is supp
orted with UCS Manager 2.2.x and later

UCS-SD-32G-S
32 GB SD card module for UCS servers

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B200-M3 specs: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/B200M3_SpecSheet.pdf

Walter.