Unified Computing System Discussions

vNICs are down on the blades with the cause 'vif-down' and 'link-down'

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...

Expand Raid 5 Virtual Disk - C220 M4 - storcli - ESXi 6.0U2?

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...

Resolved! How does UcsCentral 1.4.1b Site DomainGroup qualifier work?

My assumption is, that this regex is matched against the Ucs Domain's "systemname", e.g. Ucs Domain with name "Ucs01Location03GeneralPurpose" with a given IP address could be matched with regex ".*Location03.*", but this does not work (the IP address...

I am getting faults on UCS

# 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...

Blade server managing instance

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...

Resolved! the remote device or resource won't accept the connection -CIMC

Hi, I was trying to access remotely CIMC via web browser but getting error message "the connection was refused by the target device" I was able to access similar device in thesame location but won't for this particular device. Further diagnosis with ...

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...