Unified Computing System Discussions

We have a need to be able to receive a promiscuous mode PVLAN from an upstream Catalyst switch into an existing Cisco UCS Mini chassis.  The chassis is connected to the switch that has the PVLANs on it and is already trunking "normal" VLANs to the UC...

Good day!On my server Cisco UCS C220 M3s error occurred, which led to the failure of multiple virtual machines on the virtualization server VMware: ping disappeared and there was no access for http and RDP. Part of the machines remained to work. In t...

Hi, we have a UCS domain on our 1st site, and now I want to expand it to a 2nd site. My plan is to use UCS Central to import the configuration from the 1st site into UCSC and use it as a global configuration for both sites. Can anyone explain me how...

Hello, I have an existing environment of 2 6248 switches and 2 UCS Chassis 16 blades total.  The are running ESXi 5.5 and a virtualized vCenter. To save on costs, the bosses want to purchase a Dell FX2 with 8 Blades and attach it to the 6248.  Will...

Hi All, I'm getting up-to-speed with our Cisco UCS environment as we've been an HP and Dell shop for years. I've installed SLES 11SP3 on a B200 M4 and I'm having some intermittent issues with OS initiated reboots.  The result is that the KVM console ...

Hi All,I am trying to configure CISCO CIMC IP on UCS E160-M2 version. I am selecting NIC Port as dedicated and redundancy as None and I am selecting CON port as dedicated port but still I am not able to save the config and it is giving erroe like "co...

Hello, I inherited a situation where I can get to the CIMCs but doesn't that mean there is a UCS housing the servers?  If so is there away on the CIMC to find out the IP address of the UCS Manager GUI? No one seems to have a clue. Thanks, Repl...

After much trial and error, I am able to successfully boot VMware ESXi 5.5 U3b from an EMC CX4-120 iSCSI LUN. Using 5 vNICs, 2 for Management / vMotion, 2 for VM traffic and 1 for iSCSI traffic - would like to use 2, but boot is only successful using...

The setup consists of Chassis Cisco UCS 5108 connected to the 2 Fabric Interconnectors.The Fabric Interconnecters are connected to the switch 4900M via Fiber connectors.Created the Service profiles with the vNICs for the Public, Private and Video net...

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to expand a RAID 5 volume by adding a new disk on a C220 M4 with storcli. My server is running VMWare 6.0U2 and it seems that the good old LSI gui tools don't work with 6.0 anymore Does anyone know what would be the...

# scope chassis 5 # sh faultSeverity  Code     Last Transition Time     ID       Description--------- -------- ------------------------ -------- -----------Major     F0317    2014-04-22T10:43:20.223   2441759 Server 5/8 (service profile: ) health: in...

hey, i am working from data center directly connecting my laptop to FI-B (the master). i need to open KVM of one of the blades, whose managing instance is FI A How do i change the managing instance from FI-A to FI-B? Note - configured only out of ban...