Unified Computing System Discussions

Resolved! Blade OS has no connectivity

OS (ESXi) installed on blades has no connectivity to network and cannot ping gateway. I have confirmed the necessary VLAN's on my north bound switchs are in place. I can access the UCS infra and KVM with no issues. UCS infra, blade kvm and ESX are on...

snmp to virtual-ip of the FIs

Hi,can the cisco ucs support snmp on it/s virtual-ip, we have sucessfull snmp walks to the individual physical ips of both the FIs, but not the vip.

C220M3 FlexFlash in Unhealthy state

I have a C220M3 running the latest (2.0(13f)) firmware. The CIMC is showing the FlexFlash as being Degraded. When I look at the FlexFlash via the CLI, I see: /chassis/flexflash # show physical-drive Physical Drive Slot Controller Role ...

Disconnecting old SAN from Fabric Interconnects

Hi, After migrating data from an old SAN to a new one, we need to disconnect the old SAN from the fabric interconnects and make sure the port licences move to the interfaces connected to the new SAN. The current FC uplinks are as follows on both FIs...

How to configure Cisco UCS for monitoring by Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Hi, We have two Cisco UCS C-series servers (C210 M2) with VMWare Esxi 4.1.0 and we need to configure them for snmp monitoring using Cisco Prime. How do we do that. Please note that we do not have Cisco UCS Manager. We have CIMC though. We use VMWare ...

Resolved! UCS blade B200 M4 booting from san, loads OS to repair option.

Hello. i do have a question. i have UCS blades running windows server2012r2 that are booting to SAN. Recently added one blade.. completed successful at first boot.. after restarting it prompt for a OS repair . Kindly Assist.

Resolved! Deploy C3160M3 as a Shared Storage

Hi, Need an assistance & advice on how I'm going to deploy my C3160 as a Shared Storage... I currently have 2 C240 server installed with vSphere 6 and I would like to link both C240 server to the C3160 (Shared Storage)... tq

UCS FI6200 Authentication question

Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on the behaviour of authentication the Fabric Interconnect 6200 currently running software 2.2 5(d). I've just had to RMA a unit and found with pairing the new unit to the cluster, we have to set the authe...

Expansion of existing UCS Infra is possible or not !!

Hello Team, I am using a pair of 6248 UP interconnect with 4 links discovery architecture & 4 uplinks for ethernet (No FC, only ISCSI).Rest 44 are server ports. Questions is maximum chassis i can connect? i belive 11. correct me if i am worng. If i w...

Resolved! UCS mini KVM login failed or timeout

Hi, everyone: could you please help me to solve kvm cannot logint issure ? try many way and has ever configure KVM ip address, according to the following step "In the navigation pane, click the LAN tab, expand LAN > Pools > root > IP Pools...

Resolved! Cisco UCS 260M2 5.5 U3 - custom image and compatibility

TAC has turned a customer around and pointed at a compatibility matrix for an installed UCS-C 260M2 claiming that the firmware on the UCS and the current version of Vmware is not supported. They are suggesting that the customer moves to fimware 1.5(9...

Fabric Interconnect local Admin password change

Hi! Expert: My customer do not have the local admin password for their FI cluster anymore, the person create the setting left the company not in a good term. They still can log in the cluster with remote authentication with admin privilege. I chan...

Cisco UCS C220 M3 - Hard Disk Status Blinking Amber

Hi Community, We have Cisco UCS C220 M3 server with 4xHDD. The Hard drive fault status are blinking amber at the same time. I check the installation and service guide if what does it mean and it says the device is rebuilding.What is the reason why it...