Unified Computing System Discussions

Last week someone took a server from my Test Teams UCS and my Integration Team's UCS and cluster them together in VMware vSphere. This worked great besides vMotion. My boss gave me the great idea of trunking the 2 Nexus 5 k's from each side. Do I hav...

When will Cisco ready this installer for UCS?  I found the vSphere 5.5 is ready but a lack behind on 5.1, is Cisco already stop support 5.1 already? 

Can anyone verify if the Cisco UCS -E Series has a raid controller supported by vmware vsan?

We are trying to setup & ensure automation of backups for our entire UCS environment through UCS Central. Some questions have arisen and we are hoping to get some clarity.We are implementing the backups for the individual UCS Managers through the Ope...

Looking for the part number for the Single-Wide E-Series Server (UCS-E140S) KVM.

I need your suggestions. I just apply 2 profiles to 2 blades. 1 Blade came up fine. The other one came up with this. All Virtual Circuits are unpinned.  I don't have any Pin group setup.Yes, I have tried to turn it off and on :)), same issueI have 4 ...

Did anybody ever encounter problem to update FI firmware from 1.1(1l) to 2.0.x?We can not download firmware into UCSM.  Tried 4 different FTP tools, tftp,  also with CLI.  It just start for 20 seconds then failed at 2%.  Is there any work around?  An...

Hello,I implemented a few UCS C240m3 servers with 2xvic1225 and QLogic-2672. The servers are manage by UCSM 2.2.3 C.I'm a little bit conffuse because in UCSM vic1225 cards are looked fine(in UCSM), but QLogic cars looks like not full support (attachm...

I upgraded a UCS B series system from 2.1(2a) to 2.2(3d) and i've receiving some errors and I was hoping someone could help me resolve them. Below are the errors i'm seeing. - Code F0315 - Service profile failed to associate to server- FC uplink down...

I've got a C220 M3 and I'm trying to add an Intel I350T quad port NIC to the server. If I just plug in the NIC into the second PCIe slot, the server doesn't complete POST - it hangs after displaying the messages from the onboard NICs. (The server has...

I know that C-series M4 servers support direct attachment and management to the 6248 Fabric Interconnects using a Direct Connect configuration . My question is does this design support direct attached Fiber Channel or IP based storage directly attach...

We are opening up a new data center that will mirror our current one for DR purposes. We have three UCS domains in our current DC and will have three in the new one. If I take an ALL Config backup of my current UCS domains and import that backup to t...

Currently getting my butt kicked by this, but I have two VSAN's I've created in UCS Central and they are not propagating down to the UCSM. Currently running UCSC 1.2(1d) with the UCS domain running 2.2.2c and 2.2.3d(tried both on this domain). I have...