Unified Computing System Discussions

Resolved! B200-M4 Board Controller activation failed

I think we have this seen before. B200-M4, 2.2.3d. HFP 2.2.3d -> B200-M4 Board Controller Version 5.0 B200-M4 factory delivered with Board controller Version 9.0 Applying this HFP fails (see attachments) I think it is due to Board Controller cannot b...

Resolved! How to tell if the Hypervisor is installed on FlexFlash

I have a customer UCS C240 Standalone server which has one FlexFlash SD card installed in Slot 1, but none in Slot 2. The FlexFlash Controller is showing the Health state as "Degraded RAID" because obviously there are no other cards to mirror. The CI...

CDP shows Full Duplex Disabled but config shows "Actual Full Duplex"

Config:ESXi 5 / Nexus 1000v, on UCS B200M3s with palo and vic 1240sLooking at what CDP reports (from vem view in vCenter), it shows Full Duplex...... Disabled on all VEM Uplinks. However if you look at the vSwitch properties, vmnic properties show Co...

Resolved! Chassis numbering after power fail ? Persistency ?

I had an environment, where all blades were associate and powered down (customer did some power environment tests). All the OS are installed on local disks (ESXi, Windows, Linux). Then a power fail happened. Power comes back, and the discovery of the...

Resolved! Partition opt on fabric interconnect a has file system errors

After a painful recovery downgrade (failed upgrade from 2.2.3d to 2.2.6d) everything is working again, however I see Partition opt on fabric interconnect a has file system errors (see attachment) Any hints to fix this nasty error are appreciated.

How to configure CISCO C240 M4SX to run in C0 mode exclusively

Hi All, I have CISCO c240 M4SX server. We are having requirement to configure CISCO C240 M4SX to run in C0 mode exclusively. What are the setting in BIOS to support this? Regards, Suhag Desai

Cloud name is not reachable when enabling SRM in UCSD

Ok, we have just got hold of UCS Director and I am busy setting it up. But I am stumped when trying to integrate Vmware Site Recovery Manager I can add my Vmware clouds successfully and can see information etc, unless I try to enable SRM when the ac...

faulty slot - can't boot from ISO?

I have a rather odd problem. In one of my UCS environments I seem to have one particular slot in one chassis that is broken. Nothing in that slot can boot from ISO. Some environment details: FI's: 6248, 2.2(5b) Blades: B230 M2 Steps taken: Decom-reac...

UCS Central - bug reporting

Hi all, How do I go about reporting a bug in UCS Central? The TAC website wants a product serial number but I don't know how to obtain that. I'll reply to this post with an explanation of the bug I think I've found anyway - perhaps it's just user err...

Scripting UCS FI 2.x NX-OS Commands

Has anyone successfully scripted UCS 2.x NX-OS commands (such as show system uptime, and show platform software cmccrtl process meminfo | i MemFree) that can be run across multiple domains which passes credentials? Apparently cannot be done using Po...

UCS | serial console over LAN

We recently got a UCS 5108 and installed in a remote site. The fabric interconnects have serial consoles which needs to be accessed from our LAN during power-up of UCS and cisco webex support sessions. What is the recommended method to access the s...

DAS for UCS on FC or SAS

One of my client is looking for DAS option on standalone UCS. What options would be available to connect to DAS (FC or SAS) , what HBA can be used? Also was trying to find DAS options available to connect to UCS. Can some one help on options availabl...

Resolved! How to Configure Intel X520 Dual Port card on VMware

Hi, I'm Hyeonjin. I'm configuring use VMware5.5. I want to use Intel X520 SFP+ Dual Port 10GB like LOM(on board NIC 1G TX), but it's not display the Port on CIMC and NIC card configure on VMware How to configre the problem? Server : UCS C220 M4 C...

Resolved! Old interface in UCS Central 1.4(1a)?

Hi, Can anyone tell me how I can switch back to the old interface in UCS Central 1.4(1a)? There just doesn't seem to be an option for it so wondering if I need to specify it on the URL? Thanks Richard

UCS cluster IP not responding

Hello all, cluster ucsm mgmt ip not accessible even not able ping. from primary FI i can able to access UCSM. please advice how we can solve this problem. Regards Vinod Narayanan

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Resolved! B200-M4 Board Controller activation failed

Resolved! How to tell if the Hypervisor is installed on FlexFlash

CDP shows Full Duplex Disabled but config shows "Actual Full Duplex"

Resolved! Chassis numbering after power fail ? Persistency ?

Resolved! Partition opt on fabric interconnect a has file system errors

How to configure CISCO C240 M4SX to run in C0 mode exclusively

Cloud name is not reachable when enabling SRM in UCSD

faulty slot - can't boot from ISO?

UCS Central - bug reporting

Scripting UCS FI 2.x NX-OS Commands

UCS | serial console over LAN

DAS for UCS on FC or SAS

Resolved! How to Configure Intel X520 Dual Port card on VMware

Resolved! Old interface in UCS Central 1.4(1a)?

UCS cluster IP not responding

UCSM vMedia mount error

C220-M5 Optane DCPMM Requirements

Confusing slot assignment in C240-M5SX

SNS 3515 cannot downgrade firmware to lower version of 3.0(4m)

Outage when multiple domains became ungrouped in UCS Central

Relocating one of the fabric interconnect 6200 without downtime

C220 M4 — Fans running at maximum speed without alarms on CIMC 4.1(2m)

New UCS-X Direct deployment - looking for X-Series server firmware

About X210Cm7 install GPU card

How to restart UCSC-C240-M5S remotely via CIMC