Unified Computing System Discussions

Resolved! Scub policy

Hi! Experts: I have some concern regarding scrub policy. Here is the best practice from Cisco white paper:"Scrub Policy Scrub policy determines what happens to local disks and BIOS upon Service Profile disassociation. The default policy is no scrubb...

Cisco UCS Central 1.3

Good morning, I am installing the UCS Central 1.3. When i access the new HTML5 console, all of the variables appear with the symbols: ??¡¿¿I have tried with Firefox, IE, Chrome, all supported versions, and all with the same result. I attach a pic. Is...

Dependencies Nexus 5548UP Upgrade / Fabric Interconnect

Hi,we would like to perform an upgrade of our two Nexus 5548UP from 5.1(3)N2(1b) to 7.0(5)N1(1).Unfortunately our server team just told us, that they are worried about their UCS/FabricInterconnect. They have following HW/SW in use:UCS Manager: 2.1(1e...

Resolved! UCS Blade B200 M1 Discovery Issue - Bug Found with 1.4(2b)

Hello I m testing some UCS hardware that consist of Two Interconnect 6120xp and Two chassis, Each of the chassis have two blades One is B250 M1 in Slot 1 and 2 and One is B200 M1 in Slot 3I was at one point running the B200 M1 Blades in each of the c...

cisco ucs FI to brocade vsan

quick question, do I need to setup vsan on the FIs if I am connecting a pair of brocade dcx to the FI?

Resolved! Vmware Snapshots

Hello, I would like to know if it would be a good procedure to when doing upgrades or installing any patch do a "Snapshot" with the vmware. I have my daily backups but just want to know if this could also help to have a backup. Thanks.

getting mac address from vnic0

How do I use the powertool to get the mac address of vnic0 which will be my pxeboot nic which I need to make a reservation into dhcp so that the blade can pxeboot the first time

UCS Central with signed SSL certificates

All,I have UCS Central setup up and working with two UCS Domains using the default certificate in UCS Central. I created a signed certificate to use for https and uploaded it. I committed https to use the new signed cert but now the UCS domains fai...

Resolved! UCS C-Series Call home

Hi,We have some Rack mount C220's ad 240 servers that we are currently blind to in terms of hardware monitoring. As they are backup servers we don't want the traffic to pass through the FI's, is there a way to monitor the servers with call home using...

Resolved! Software RAID and harddrives visibility in CIMC inventory. I cannot see any of my 2 disks. Right or not?

Hello,we have got CE500 – VCS (telepresence), which is CISCO UCS C series server. The latest CIMC/Bios update is applied (2.0.3...)There is no hw raid controller inserted.Server seems to be OK but when looking into CIMC inventory I cannot see any of ...

UCS 240 Nic Teaming

Hello, I have a UCS 240,y the vSwitch configuration I only have 1 vmnic0, I need to configure teaming / failover, but my question is, if I add a (vSwitch0 Properties-->Network Adpaters,) second vmnic1 will I have any connectivity issue? Thanks.

Resolved! One of the two cluster FIs have a bootflash capacity-exceed warning

Hi everybody, Could someone can solve this or show me what files in the bootflash? I found some documents on Cisco site , the bootflash utilization should equal. One of them is 30% and another is almost 70%

Expansion Hard Disk Vmware Esxi 5.1

Hello, I have a doubt with the exansion of hard disk in vmawre esxi 5.1 in RAID 1. We have the following:- 4 HD 500GB each one- RAID 1 And we want to add 4 HD in this RAID:- 8 HD 500 GB each one- RAID 1 ( 4HD - 4 HD) How can I do this without losing...

ucs 10GB qos

how should i setup Qos on my 10GB uplinks? Currently I have mgmt - 2 nicsvmotion - 2 nicsVms - 2 nicsiSCSI - 2 nicswhat policy or best practice is recommended? how should i carve up or make sure iSCSI gets priority incase of congestion? most of the ...