Unified Computing System Discussions

All,I have an issue I have been fighting for about a week now.  We have our chassis connected to two 6120's.  The 6120's are trunked to a Cisco 4900M switch.I appear to have an arp issue that I can't resolve.  It could be a VLAN tagging issue also.I ...

Hi All,   We are encountering a very strange and frustrating issue at the moment with our ESXi 6.0 hosts that are hosted on B200M4 blades on UCS Mini environments. I am hoping someone has seen this issue before or can help.   Daily, with what seems l...

We are preparing to deploy our first HX stack consisting of 2 6248UP FI switches and 8 M5 hybrid nodes (SSD for read/write cache and spindles for persistent storage). I see that Data Platform 3.5(2a) is the Cisco suggested version, which is interesti...

Greetings!   I have a number of C240M5 chassis with the VIC 1455 cards;  Is there a way to configure this vic card for the following scenario:   Standalone chassis (i.e., not connected to a fabric interconnect) All four SFP ports are usable for assig...

Hi all, Probably a dumb question but I have a UCS B460 would anyone know if it's possible to configure it to work independently as 2 x UCS B260’s, I’m guessing it’s not possible without the correct terminatorAny ideas greatly appreciated   

Dears, I have 2 no's of  Fabric Interconnect and from each FI i have 2 no's of connection  to 2 no's of core switches 6509 ( in VSS) , My port channeling is not coming up,on the switch end i see the the bundle is in waiting state but from FI end i do...

  has anybody seen System Software event: Processor sensor, Configuration Error was asserted.   running ESXi6.5 and  its was hung on a dump screen this morning, The esxi console screen what i could understand was Machine check exception: fatal MCE on...

Hi everybody,please check the below parts and explain to me the usefulness and the positioning of the ucs part numbers.brkukuPart Number Description•1. R200-BUN-2 UCS C200 M2 Rack Svr, 1xE5640, 1x4GB, 1PS•2. R200-BUN-3 UCS C200 M2 Rack Svr, 1xE5620, ...

 am having an issue where my UCS server hangs on bootup at the "Configuring and testing Platform Hardware..."  I have followed the necessary steps to clear the CMOS , and then update bios with CIMC , USB , TFTP and CLI , always he show me "Completed ...

Hi, i'm really confused why would anybody configure "vNIC/vHBA Placement Policy" manually. When i setup Cisco UCS i always choose "Let System Perform Placement"   Am i missing some hidden jam that i might be using manual instead ?

Hi,  where can I find a Visio stencil that contains the UCS-EN140N-M2/K9? I have looked into the ones for the routers where this can be plugged-in, as well as in the UCS area. None of the stencils seems to contain this specific module. Thanks.  

Hi,There are several blogs and white papers that describe how to configure QoS and Jumbo Frames. But they differ in therms of MTU size. Most official UCS based white papers configure an MTU size of 9000. What is best-practice for a FlexPod? Configure...

Hello, I am trying to install a Fusion ioMemory SX350 card into a C420-M3 running BIOS v1.5(9)a.  The PCIe card works, but it's operating at the default power of 24.75W, and the documentation indicates that it can provide better performance if it can...