Cisco UCS mini setup and config help

[emilyforcisco1]

I have a UCS mini (6324 FI switches) connected to a Cisco switchstack over the 2 10gb uplinks.  8 b200m1 blades and a c240m3 I'm hoping to setup for disk/san use by all ucs servers over the fabric.

basically all the cords are connected and now I'm trying to figure out how to set everything up.

1st issue is how to setup the disk on the c240m3 to be available san for the rest of the blade servers?

2nd question is on configuring the uplink connections from the FI switches to the cisco  switchstack.  Lights are green and connected, wondering if after enabling the fabric interfaces as uplink ports and plugging into switch whether I have to do anything "more".

I've found myself searching and stalling enough on referencing things for config that I thought I would post and see if I could get any help from people that have setup Cisco UCS mini from beginning to end with a rack server integrated for storage.

Any help would be appreciated

[Walter Dey]

Hi

my 2c

- First you have to check the interop guide: e.g. only M4 blades and C-series server are supported !

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-mini/index.html

- regarding SAN, do you need classiscal FC or FCoE ?

- if you need classical FC, you need to configure universal ports for FC ! see eg. https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12917511/configuring-fc-ports-miniucs-6324

- do you have external FC switches ?

- is your UCS FI running FC end host mode (recommended) or FC switch mode ?

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https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/13089146/ucs-mini-connected-mds9124

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12950981/flexpod-deployment-ucs-mini-5108-w2blades-2-fi-embedeed-6324-1-n5k-5548-1-netapp

https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/12500371/expert-webcast-slides-cisco-ucs-mini-architecture-troubleshooting-and-upgrade