Unified Computing System Discussions

hi am having issues getting my cisco UCS servers to san boot off of my EMC VMAX storage array the UCS chassis connects to a pair of Brocade 5100 FC switches which in turn connect to the VMAX the WWNs of the UCS server are visible on the brocades, but...

I have a VIC 1225T card, which by definition has 2x 10 GbE copper ports. What sfp's am I supposed to use in the fabric interconnects that support 10GbE over copper?

HI,I am thinking of using C220M4 in standalone mode. I have been reading about adapter-fex and I am wondering which Cisco VIC supports adapter-fex and which Nexus Switch will support adapter-fex. I am thinking of using a VIC1225 and Nexus 3000. Thank...

Hi,I have the a chassis, that included the B200 M1 M2 M3 .... I want to promote the maximum hardware specification ....Would you mind help to verify the maximum specification as below: (Actually, I cannot search the B200 M1 datasheet to talk about th...

Dear UCS communityI hope you have seen this announcement:New Cisco UCS Power Calculator and Estimation Tool. It features an all new User Interface (UI) and is currently live at http://ucspowercalc.cisco.com

Hello,We need to upgrade memory for one of B200 M3 servers. It is fully equipped with 24x 16GB 1600 RDIMMs. We need to have 512GB of RAM, so we have to replace old DIMMs with 16x 32GB ones. Now, I have a question which DIMMs are better since the pric...

I am building a server to be used as Cisco TelePresence Management Server.  An app that runs on Win 2008 R2The server has 2 500gb hd and mezzanine controllerI can see that the CIMC works as I assigned an IP and I was to KVM to it.  After Windows inst...

I am having troubles getting the KVM sessions going.  It is a Windows 7 workstation with Java 8 Update 25.  I have cleared the temporary files from Java.  I have added the server to the exception list so far.  Nothing seems to work.  I cannot lower s...

At UC platform i can see some applications are installed on Windows server and some directly to VMWare. Pls explain?

                   I have an issue with 3 UCS C220 M3's with VIC 1225's installed seeing FC Storage from a NetApp 2240-2 connected to a pair of Nexus 5548up switches.  1.  On each of the Nexus 5548up switches I am using port 1/29 and 1/30 as native F...

please help to provide what need to be upgraded? what is the best practices.UCSM, FI FW upgrade?compatibility with ESXi5.0U3 and SAN using Hitachi HUS/VSP? thanks for any comments and information. rgds,Sean 

I am trying to creating iscsi boot but the iscsi vnic is grayed out. any idea?