Unified Computing System Discussions

How to check Hard Disk drive is broken in UCS C220-M4S ?

Hi All, I have a problem on my UCS C220-M4s server. I am facing Hard disk drive error. My server has 8 hard disk drive. When i login to MegaRAID controller, it show me "Foreign" error for 5 hard disk drive. I checked again in CIMC for those drives. C...

Resolved! If we upgrade FI 6296UP to UCS 3.1, what version firmware for our MDS 9148 is interoperable?

We are considering upgrading our UCS environment to UCS 3.1. We currently run UCS 2.2(3c) on our 6296UP FIs, and our MDS 9148 switches are currently on firmware 6.2(5a) If we upgrade UCS to 3.1(1e) or 3.1(1g), how can we find out what version MDS fir...

Resolved! C3160 Direct connect support?

Hi I am having trouble finding anywhere that will give me a confirmed answer on this. I would like to know if a C3160 server with a Vic 1227 supports direct connect mode into the FI's. Many thanks

UCS call home to external SMTP server

Hi, I need to configure the call home for UCS The SMTP server is external Do I need only to route the FI-A, FI-B and cluster IP Addresses to internet to access external OR How the UCS could access external network ? And how to confirm that ? is it f...

Resolved! Can servers only get OOB management IP addresses from local UCS Domains

Using Ucs Central 1.4.1b it seems, that physical servers can only get their pooled OOB management IP addresses (for KVM access etc) from local UCS Domain ext-mgmt pool (no way in Ucs Central to configure them to use global management IP address pools...

Cisco UCSC-C220-M4S Unable to connect to CIMC

We have multiple C220 servers in our Data Center. We just purchased 4 more; the 4 new servers have server 2012 installed on them. These new serves are connected to a Cisco 6509 server setup as an access port with Auto/Auto for speed and duplex. The C...

Cisco UCSC-C220-M4S Unable to connect to CIMC

We have multiple C220 servers in our Data Center. We just purchased 4 more; the 4 new servers have server 2012 installed on them. These new serves are connected to a Cisco 6509 server setup as an access port with Auto/Auto for speed and duplex. The C...

Resolved! Firmware upgrade form 2.1(1a) to 3.1(1e)

Hi, I have a UCS system running on version 2.1(1a) and I need to upgrade it to 3.1(1e). I could not find any related document for upgrading from this version to 3.xx can it be done directly or should I go into intermediate version such as 2.2(5) or s...

UCSM and UCS central time is not synchronized

Hi All, When i am trying the register my UCSM to UCS central i am getting the below error. I have checked the time on both UCSM and UCS central. The time seems same but in UCSM it is in IST and in UCS central it is in UTC. how to change it from...

Resolved! Problem with booting to VMware ESXi 5.0

I just installed VMware ESXi 5.0 on a new Cisco UCS B200 series blade with two 300 GB hard drives configured in a RAID 1 Mirrored. I went through and completed installation of VMware ESXi 5.0 on this server. When the installation completed and the ...

UCSM vs Apache & openssh

Hi ExpertsI am trying to gather Apache and openssh server version info for various UCSM codes. I've managed a few.2.1 (1a)TBD2.1 (3b)TBD2.2 (1d)TBD2.2(3e)Apache: 2.2.25openssh: 5.92.2 (5b)TBD2.2 (5c)TBD2.2 (6e)Apache: 2.4.12openssh: 5.92.2 (7b)Apache...

Port Channel Setup for New Chassis added

How is the Port Channel created under the Internal Lan tab, when a new Chassis is connected to the F1 and how is the Peer Info Setup for the Port Channel. We are seeing VIF errors for our new Chassis and Blades after we attach a Service Profile and B...

Resolved! New ucs chassis to existing environment

Hi I'm connecting second ucs chassis to a fabric interconnect . How to copy a service profile from the 1st to 2nd chassis and is ucs director need license and is there best practice for this new chassis Thanks

Resolved! Need help w/UCS-B420

Hi, I'm trying to setup a B420 in our lab, but just found out the 6324 F/I doesn't support B420s in the UCS Mini configuration. I read through the documentation and it wasn't clear to me at time of order. It's only when I assembled all the components...