Unified Computing System Discussions

Hello All,I am new to this technology & facing a peculiar issue with the UCS blade networking.Two UCS B200 M3 blades are configured as ESXi hosts. Static IPs have been configured.Both the blades are able to connect to the external network but they ar...

In Case of Dual active or Split brain what actually causes data plane to break. As end device already have Ip resolved either to Virtaul or Physical mac address. Shouldn't existing flows continue even when we have both vPC peer active.Its theres stat...

Most of the white papers covering AD Integration of UCS don't use SSL; transporting clear text passwords over the network is not state of the art. Are there any white papers, which cover AD Integration of UCS with SSL ?

I am running UCS emulator 3.0 with 4 gig of ram and 2 cpus.When I open UCS Emulator in firefox or  chrome the left hand menu shows up fine but the middle/left pane is blank, no launch buttons show up.I am running java 1.6.Any ideas?

High Experts, Please let me know which UCS rack server is best to accomodate both ESAv, WSAv and SMAv virtual appliances. Thanks & Regards,Rahil

While creating PEER link for a VPC  is it must to have peer switches  back to back connected or there can be a extended layer 2 connectivity over multiple layer 2 devices in between . If so is there any limitation on number of devices in between.

We have a UCS5108AC chassis with 2 2104XP I/O modules and 1 B200 M1 Server.  We recently purchased 2 UCSB-PSU-2500ACDV power supplies.  We are wanting to use the 110v capability off of the new power supplies.  My question is will this work.  The only...

I've got C220 M4 server with two 1Gb Intel LOM adapters which I configured for iSCSI boot. I got boot from SAN working but only on one adapter at the time, secondary adapter is not active and stays that way even if I shut down the primary adapter. Is...

Hi, I hope somebody can help me with this. I've had this server powered down for about two months and it was working fine. I powered it on to install VMware ESXi 5.5 or 6. When I checked the RAID controller there were not any virtual drives created w...

Hi all,I tried to configure my UCS System with a Service Profile template.I Use iscsi boot, so I Need to configure a UcsVnicIScsiStaticTargetIf via CiscoUCSPS.It took me a Long time to find out the Syntax with try and error and the | convertto-ucscmd...

Hi all, just completed an upgrade from firmware 2.0.2q to 2.2.5b (with an intermediate stop at 2.1.3g) on management, fabrics and blades.  The blades are running vsphere esxi 5.5.  Prior to the upgrade, if I told vsphere to shut down, i.e. shutdown a...

I have a question on the process that the HUU does when a C series FW is updated. I have done a few of them and each one does it so far. I get done with the upgrade, hit exit, and the server goes trhough what I think would be a graceful restart. Duri...