Unified Computing System Discussions

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...

Trying to get UCS to boot from SAN and just running into issue after issue. Running B200-M5 blades. The profile is set up so that the CDROM is first to boot, then the primary SAN and then secondary SAN. When I launch the ESXi installer, it sees the b...

Hi,   I'm just preparing for a UCS troubleshooting certification, where the Redwood and Woodside commands are good to know for troubleshooting IOM-FEX. Little bit hard to study for it, because you have to use physical equip. UCSPE is not supporting t...

Hello everyone.   I recently discovered following error in my environment (5108, 2208XP (4.0.1c), 6248UP (4.0.1c), B200M3 (3.1(25d)):   Affected object    :    sys/chassis-1Description    :    Thermal condition on chassis 1 is upper-non-recoverableID...

Hi, I am getting "Login Error: Failed Login info: User reached maximum session limit" when trying to login to UCSM over web.But I managed to login to UCSm using cli. What is the command to terminate/kill the old admin sessions from cli in UCSM.Please...

Hi, On two C240 M4 hosts with VIC1225 and 1227 connected to a Cisco Catalyst over 10GB we get continuous high network latency warnings from VMware VSAN Health check. When running vmkping between vsan vmk's it shows latency peaks over 20ms from time t...

Hi All,   we are getting everyday the following Email Notification from our IMC Supervisor Engine. Everything is running fine so far, the admin Account is still working. We also change the Password, but we are still getting this Email every Day... Us...

Ok here is my scenario, I have 32 C220 servers in a rack (Nodes 1 - 32). The servers showed up by default with the CIMC in dedicated mode so I figured the fastest way I could get an IP address to a server CIMC and know which IP went to which physical...

We're having problems monitoring UCS devices via snmpv3 (tested against 2.0(9c) and 3.0(3a)); it seems when the engine restarts (for example, if the snmp Location value is changed in the UCS software), engineTime restarts to 1 but engineBoots doesn't...

i have a UCS C220 M3 with four hardisks and i have a cucm and ccx vm inside , one of the HDD is giving a warning , can i remove it to check it's model then return it? or would that cause system outage? is the this code on the outside facing panel "A0...