Unified Computing System Discussions

EMC Simple Support Matrix for Cisco Blade Chassis Switch Modules

This Simple Matrix is released on Sep 2016, it is very useful.

Resolved! UCS Server Alerts

Hello, When I know I am going to reboot a blade for maintenance purpose, can we stop the call home/alert from going out? Please let me know. Thank you! Best regards,

Connectivity randomly breaks between UCS and 3560 Switch

Hi We have established connectivity between UCS Servers and Cisco 3560 switch. Two Trunk ports are configured and required VLAN is allowed over trunk. everything is up and running. Virtual machines are reachable. Switch port configuration: interface...

UCS Central TACACS Authentication bug

Hi folks, Today I faced a bug I want to report: My setup: OS: Windows 10 x64 UCS Central: 1.5(1b) Browsers: Chrome 54, Firefox 49, Edge 38 I want to login to UCS Central by using Active Directory integrated authentication, but because of our security...

Resolved! UCS Central Server Pool Qualification Policies

Hi guys,I have 2 domains added to UCS Central with following Domain Groups structure:Root DG-EMEA DG-LABI want to create server pool qualification policy which will use only server from chassis 1 in second domainI found that I can distinguish ...

Replace 6248UP FI

Greetings,We currently are in the process of replacing a faulty FI on our environment due to an partition corruption. We do have a replacement at this time so my question is, what will be the graceful way to shutdown the faulty FI from the Cluster? C...

cisco ucs adaptor issues with vmware operations manager

HI All,Need help getting authentication to work properly with Cisco developed plugin for vmware operations manager. Vmware seems to think problem lies with the cisco adapter. Copy of the error from vmware support:2016-05-23 09:08:02,569 ERROR [Ta...

How do I access the "VIF Paths" tab information from UCSM from PowerTool?

In UCS Manager, there is a tab on each server and Service Profile called "VIF Paths", how can I see this information from the UCS PowerTool or the CLI?Thanks,Bryan

Resolved! Fabric Interconnects hung with "Switchover in Progress"

We had a scheduled maintenance window this afternoon that offlined both network switches connected to the management interfaces of our UCS 6248 fabric interconnects (version 2.2(1c)). There was no impact to the production uplinks/portchannels. When c...

Resolved! Upgrading UCS Mini to 3.1.1g, FI is getting as failed.

Hello Team, I am upgrading my UCS Mini to 3.1.1g, FI is getting as failed. UCS manager upgraded successfully. But post activating firmware upgrade for subordinate FI, getting FAILED message . Severity Code Last Transition Time ID Descri...

Resolved! Has bug CSCuh90667 come back?

I'd be grateful if anyone else running UCS Central 1.5(1a) has experienced the following bug, which was reportedly fixed in v1.1? https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCuh90667 I am seeing "Unassociated" Status for GSPs even though the GS...

Server Port - Trunk Mode

Hi,One of the Server ports (pointing towards a UCS Chassis) on my fabric interconnect is currently showing as down as it is Trunk mode not Fabric Mode as per all the other server ports.For some reason when I look under the LAN tab this one interface ...

UCSM 3.1.1b Pending Activity for reboot greyed out

Unable to make new changes as most functionality is greyed out. When I first open UCSM a message flashes up and goes away indicating a pending reboot. Have not been able to get to reboot because pending activity is also greyed out. Appeared to coinci...

Resolved! install ESXi on UCS to boot from SAN

Hi, I have ucs and I need to boot from SAN I need to confirm one thing When I was installing windows server on ucs to boot from SAN. I attached the drivers iso for the HBA driver so the blade can detect the boot LUN. Now I'll install ESXi. Do you kn...