Unified Computing System Discussions

Powertools for UCS scripts fan norxack stats

Hello all, Does anyone have an idea about how to get norxack stats from the fans on multiple IOMs with powertools?

UCS Central CLI local-mgmt ping

Installed UCS Central 1.2e using ovf in VM Center. Can only register 1 domain. Of course this a network issue, or is it? Will a successful install include the ability to ping all UCS domains/subnets from the UCS Central CLI? Has anyone tested thi...

Resolved! What is the maximum number of FC connections supported by the UCS Mini (FI 6324)? 3 or 4?

Hi All, I recently tried to do a UCS Mini BOM on CCW and the it gave me a an error when i tired to configure 8 FC SFPs to the two FI6324 saying "UCSB-5108-AC2 requires a minimum of 0 and allows maximum of 6 from Fibre Channel Options" On the officia...

Configuration L2 based Nexus 1000v installation change to L3

Do we have a documentation how to change a L2 based Nexus 1000v installation to a L3 one ?I've never done it; I assume it is disruptive ?Any feedback is welcome !Walter.

iSCSI Boot with UCS/ESXi & UCS upgrade

I do not see any best practice configuration guide for the Cisco UCS with iSCSI boot.I am currently running Cisco UCS 2.1 & Trying to upgrade to 2.2.I need to find if anybody is using this in Production & good experience with iSCSI boot .SincerelyVir...

Resolved! [SOLVED] CIMC 2.0(3i): Launch of KVM Console fails

Hi, After upgrading to CIMC version 2.0(3i), launching KVM Console fails with Java error "Unable to launch the application" Java Exception trace follows:JNLPException[category: Download Error : Exception: null : LaunchDesc: null at com.sun.javaws....

New version of UCS Central V 1.3.1a

Just in case you haven't seen it https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-57385UCS Tech Talk: What’s new in the world of UCS Central version 1.3(1)https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-35264UCS Central Best Practice Guide --- Updated for Release 1.3(1...

Resolved! LSI 9271 on C240M3 constantly reporting "Unexpected Sense"

I have a relatively new (2 months or so) C240M3, and I happened to be going through the CIMC today and noticed the storage log has the following entry from the RAID controller every 3-10min:"Unexpected sense: Encl PD 08 Path a80c0dc0ce0000bd, CDB: 1a...

UCS Fabric Interconnect hangs

My Fabric Interconnects 6248 hangs with the following single line message "N5000 BIOS v.3.5.0, Thu 02/03/2011, 05:12 PM I've tried going into the Golden Bios and showing debug message and the following was displayed before it hanged. N5000 BIOS v.3....

Conectar Cisco UCS via Nexus a NFS via IP

Tenemos una solución Cisco UCS la cual esta conectada a los Switches de Agregación Nexus y cuando se trata de conectar un o unos ServidoresVirtuales o SX a un NFS via IP no establece la conexión generando time-out, pero si la solución Cisco UCS es co...

Server hardware not supported

I added in some b200 M4 blades into the UCs chassis and tried to reack the slot. but got this error. I am running ucsm 2.1(3a) any idea?

changed service profile from B200M2 to B200 M3 now vmware stuck on booting

I had a service profile that was attached to a B200 M2 server but I disassociate that profile to that server and associated it with a b200 M3 server with more memory. now its just stuck on loading up vmware at iscsi_vmk loaded successfully and thenvm...

USB Composite Device / Cisco Virtual Media driver letters in Windows

Hi, everybody.I just saw two iSCSI LUN's "disappear" from Windows Disk Management, hope you can help me get them back. UCS C-220 M3 standalone. Updated with Host Utilities ucs-c220-huu-2.0.3i.isoWindows 2008 R2 SP1 installed using ucs-cxx-scu-4.0.3.i...

RedHat Clustering with Cisco UCS B Series?

Hello,I’m trying to figure out how to configure HA with luci/ricci and Cisco UCS. I’ve added both of my nodes into a cluster in luci, but can’t seem to get fencing to work. In testing this, I found the fence_cisco_ucs command. Running this against UC...