Unified Computing System Discussions

hyperflex Sizer

Dears attached is the report for the Hyperflex sizer in which the requirement for usable storage is 20 TB and i am getting those but i m surprise from the available core is only 90 hence the i have selected 18 Core * 2 socket processor = 36 Core an...

UCS trys to reach the internet

Hello,i have a question about ucs and proxy server. One of our security admins ask me why our ucs fi are trying to reach the internet. He saw a lot of blocked connections in our log files. I did not configure any proxy settings so it should be someth...

Resolved! Cisco RAID controller utility -Red hat 7.7 (Megaraid)?

Hi folksWe have a bunch of C240 M5 servers with the inbuilt Cisco 12G Modular Raid Controller with 4GB cache (max 26 drives) (MRAID, is there a download link to install and manage the raid sets within the operating system. Is it the LSI Mega Raid co...

FI FC ports saturated?

We have Fabric A and fabric b each FI has 2 x 8 Gbps - these are NOT connected via Port-channel We have concerns that these links may becoming saturated. How can i verify this from UCS manger? is it do-able or do i need to look at the SAN switchin...

Resolved! Question About Firmware Version Upgrades & Minimum Software Version

Will upgrading bundle A and B to 4.0(4d) while our current bundle B is on 3.1(2b) instead of the listed "Minimum Software Version" of 3.1(3a) on the Release Notes for Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.0 cause an issue during the interim of the upgrade? Or...

Local disk 25 on server is not usable by the operating system for c240M5L

In UCS version 3.2(1d) we have a bug as below, do we have any more info of how to clear the alert, if any. https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvh18287/?referring_site=ss&dtid=osscdc000283

Q: UCS FI 6332 FC uplink to MDS 9148

We have purchased and received a pair of Nexus FI's 6332's that need to connect to the UCS-IOM-2208XP on the server side, and uplink to Cat-4500-X's in VSS mode on the LAN side. My confusion is the challenge or possible incompatibility on the SAN F...

Latest driver from cisco for redhat

Hi ! I am working on UCS hardware and we are running Redhat 7 over ucs-b200-m3. It was ask me to ensure we got the latest driver for the nic and other components of that UCS. Here I am asking if cisco publish his latest drivers over the redhat repos...

UCS 220 M5SX with Intel CNA X550-T2 not seeing FCOE boot option only iSCSI option

I have the UCS C 220 M5SX with CNA X550-T2 card and from the specs FCOE is supported. When I boot the system up I am only seeing the iSCSI boot option menu and not FCOE option. What do I need to do in order to get this card configured with the FCO...

MLOM Slot vs Chassis Slot in ESXi?

Hi all, we're in the process of replacing much older UCS hardware (6120's serving B440M2's with M81KR adapters) with 6248's serving B200M4's with VIC 1340 adapters in chassis using 2208XP i/o modules. I'm presenting 10 vNIC's to the servers. While...

UCS San Boot timeout

Hi All We are using UCS boot-from-san using the traditional 4 WWPN search order;Primary HBA( VHBA0) , Primary WWPNPrimary HBA( VHBA0) , Secondary WWPNSecondary HBA( VHBA1) , Primary WWPNSecondary HBA( VHBA1) , Secondary WWPN All seems to work well. (...

CIMC IP Pool got full "ext-mgt-pool " Any alternative ??

Hello Guru'sIst Question:Problem is IPs from "ext-mgt-pool " pool is out of stock . Is there any alternative to expand it or create new IP Pool with in Outband or Inband? currently we are using outband.The KVM IP Address has to be from the same subne...

RX and TX packet drops

Hello Cisco Community - can anyone help me understand how to monitor packet drops in Cisco UCS? In UCSM there are error and loss counters in the port stats, but none are a basic counter for packet drops, and more specifically how can one check to se...