04-25-2014 03:13 PM - edited 03-01-2019 11:38 AM
Welcome to this Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn and ask questions about the Cisco UCS Manager 2.2(1) release, which delivers several important features and major enhancements in the fabric, compute, and operational areas. Some of these features include fabric scaling, VLANs, VIFs, IGMP groups, network endpoints, unidirectional link detection (UDLD) support, support for virtual machine queue (VMQ), direct connect C-Series to FI without FEX, direct KVM access, and several other features.
Teclus Dsouza is a customer support engineer from the Server Virtualization team at the Cisco Technical Assistance Center in Bangalore, India. He has over 15 years of total IT experience. He has worked across different technologies and a wide range of data center products. He is an expert in Cisco Nexus 1000V and Cisco UCS products. He has more than 6 years of experience on VMware virtualization products.
Chetan Parik is a customer support engineer from the Server Virtualization team at the Cisco Technical Assistance Center in Bangalore, India. He has seven years of total experience. He has worked on a wide range of Cisco data center products such as Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus 1000V. He also has five years of experience on VMware virtualization products.
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04-29-2014 11:59 AM
Hello gents,
Is it possible to connect storage directly to UCS? If so, what is the required configuration on UCS? Appreciate your assistance.
Jackson
04-29-2014 11:59 AM
Hello gents,
Is it possible to connect storage directly to UCS? If so, what is the required configuration on UCS? Appreciate your assistance.
Jackson
04-30-2014 03:56 AM
Hi Jackson,
Yes its is possible. Connect the storage array to the fabric interconnects using two 10GB links per storage processor. Connect each SP to both fabric interconnects and configure the ports on the fabric interconnect as “Appliance” ports from UCSM
For more information on how to connect Netapp storage using other protocols like iSCSI or FCOE please check the url below.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-6100-series-fabric-interconnects/whitepaper_c11-702584.html
Regards
Teclus Dsouza
04-30-2014 01:31 PM
Hi Guys,
Is it possible to configure private vlans in UCS and VMWare 5.5 vDS to a 3750 core without a Nexus 1k, Nexus 5k or Nexus 7k? Any information on this setup would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Daniel
05-02-2014 12:04 AM
Hi Daniel,
Yes its possible to create Private Vlans on UCS . The attached guide gives step by step instructions on how to go about it .
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/116310-config-ucs-pvlan-00.html#anc11
I hope this helps answer your question.
Cheers
Teclus Dsouza
05-06-2014 05:49 PM
Hi Teclus,
Thanks for the your answer. One more question for you. How can I check whether my UCS setup is compatible and supported?
Jackson
05-07-2014 01:56 AM
Hi Jackson,
You can use the below compatibility matrix and check the same.
http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html
Let me know if you have any other queries
Regards
Teclus Dsouza
05-02-2014 01:35 PM
Hi Teclus and Chetan,
Can I have my fabric interconnect connected to two different upstream switches? Please help.
thank you,
Sebastian
05-07-2014 03:01 AM
Hi Sebastian,
I am not sure if you got the answer to this. Yes the FI's should be connected to 2 different upstream switches as this is a recommended topology .
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-6120xp-20-port-fabric-interconnect/110267-ucs-uplink-ethernet-connection.html
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-manager/116095-configure-ucs-upstream-port-channel-00.html
Let me know if you need any other details
05-07-2014 03:18 PM
Thank you Teclus. This helps very much. Also, I know that Fabric interconnect operate in NPV mode by default. Can the fabric interconnect/UCS work in NPIV mode? If yes what is the configuration needed?
Sebastian
05-28-2019 08:32 PM
Hello ,
I am looking for below Cisco server whether the window server 2016 support or not and which version require for firmware.
Cisco C220 M3 ,Cisco C220 M4 , Cisco C220 M5 , Cisco UCS B200 M3 , Cisco UCS B200 M4 , Cisco UCS B200 M5
Cisco UCS C240 M3, Cisco UCS C240 M4, Cisco UCS C240 M5,
Appreciate your reply.......
05-28-2019 10:19 PM
05-29-2019 04:20 AM
You can use this document to check what software is supported on what hardware at certain firmware versions.
https://ucshcltool.cloudapps.cisco.com/public/
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