Unified Computing System Discussions

Cisco UCS B-Series 3.1 - Unable to ping GW via ESXi hosts/All Host can ping within chassis

Hoping someone can resolve this issue and point out an obvious flaw. UCS B-Series all ESXi hosts on blades can ping each other via mgmt network (tagged 510) although they cannot ping the mgmt GW. The FI indicate the following configuration on the 62...

XenServer with Cisco UCS FI setup

I have been asked to look at our current XenServer setup on our Cisco environment. The issue is that everytime I do a firmware upgrade to the FI's it breaks XenServer. We noticed that our bonds in XenServer are set to Active/Active. If you read the d...

Resolved! THE MDS 9124 IS CONNECT TO UCS 6120 under the 6120 FC Mode:switch.

hi, everyone; when i try to change UCS 6120 to FC Mode: switch ,then try to connect to MDS 9124, checking MDS 9124, always display following error. " isloating because of hte zone modes does not match the receive rjt from adjact switch. " wh...

Resolved! ISCSI Boot issue

Hi , I am setting up ISCSI boot lun .I have configured the IQN,IP and IQN target (which is from netapp storage).Iam getting Initiator error 1 and ISCSI login error ,were there is no chap login configured at storage or ucs side. below is out put from ...

Resolved! MDS 9124 cannot learn one of the WWN of the UCS a blade server

Hi, everyone,g could you help me, introduce testing evrionment , A SAN switch is MDS 9124. A UCS Mini 6314 A EMC VNX 5100 on the MDS, cannot found out one of WWN of the blade server ? because of when initialization UCS profile, a...

SSH slow response UCS C240 M4SX.

Hi Guys, I'm connecting via SSH to the CIMC port of the server and response is pretty slow ~16sec before I get the response for password. Is this a known bug? I have CIMC firmware version 2.0(13e). From SSH debug I get this: debug1: sending SSH2_...

CIMC - Modifying Threshold Values in CIMC

Hello,I want to modify the threshold values for temperature, voltage etc given in the CIMC of a C240 Series UCS box. In the CIMC window it shows me what is the current value and max/min threshold values but it doesn't give me option to change the thr...

Resolved! Need an help to dis-associate service profile and associate different service profile from template

Hi Team, I need an help to give steps/details to dis-associate and associate service profile. We have already two service profile exist in environment such as “XYZ” and “ABC” in which first three blades(Blade1,2,3) are associated to service prof...

UCS Director VMware VM NIC Not Connected when deployed

How do ensure the vNIC on a VM deployed by UCS Director is Connected? Have a basic installation of 5.4, only VMware vSphere 5.x connected. Simple VDC created and as well policies. Deploying a Windows VM from a VMware template. Any time I deploy a VM ...

ESXi 6.0 Installation on Nvme Drives ( With RAID/Redundancy/ mirroring)which comes with cisco C240 M4 Server

Dear Friends, I am trying to install the esxi on cisco UCS C240M4 server as standalone. It has 2x Nvme drives & rest all are SAS drives. But i am not successful. This device has UCSC-MRAID12G controller too. But it won't support Nvme drives. Please...

Unable to communicate with UCSM controller - 2.2(1b)

Hi All,On upgrading from v2.1(1e) to 2.2(1b) we have seen a similar issue on two different clusters.After activating the new image on the subordinate FI and attempting to switch the primary role to the subordinate, a 'show cluster state' reports that...

unable to configure ssl connection UCS Central to openldap

Hello. I sucessfully configured ldap authorization on my UCS Central machine, but unable to upgrade connection to SSL or TLS. That I did: checked ssl checkbox, changed port to 636 (tried both 389 and 636);at certificates section I created new trusted...

how to create a multicast policy in ucs central

hi All I have been using UCSm to configure our servers and create multicast policies and it works pretty good We are now switching to UCS Central for our UCS management, but i cant figure out how i have to create and use a multicast policy. I can ent...

Automate bring up of 50 UCS-C and installing Software on top of them

Hi, I'm a network guy and i am assigned a task to bring up 50 UCS-C 240M servers, some of them will have VMWare vCenter and some will just have an operating system (a linux variant, still an .iso image). What are the known/common ways to automate t...

Unable to launch KVM

I am unable to successfully launch the KVM console for the UCS C200 M2. The firmware version is 1.4(3y) which is the latest available. Firstly, whenever trying to launch the KVM, the following error pops even though I am running the same version of ...