Unified Computing System Discussions

Recently we got few new C240 M3S2 Rackmounts from Cisco. Those came with 2.0(1b). We want them to downgrade to 1.5(4e).We used hostupgrade utility and selected to downgrade CIMC and BIOS.   CIMC downgraded successfully, BIOS successful message we did...

Hi, I am trying to configure boot from san for a UCS C220 server with a qlogic qle2562 fc hba.When the server boots i should be able to press ctrl-q and enter the hba utility, but ctrl-q does not appear.I am able to see the adapter in cimc and I also...

Hi,The latest version of UCS Central came with "Authentication domains" support.When I create domains in UCS Central, and then tell UCS Manager to inherit those settings, they are not created in UCS Manager? Am I missing something here? /Jerry

Hi,I am planning to upgrade our UCS B-Series server(B200M2) to 2.2(1d) from 2.1(1d).While i was reading the Cisco document for the upgrade, they were specifying about a bug CSCuh61202 ( https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCuh61202 ) .It is saying...

We have been running a few of these servers with only a 500GB 6GB SATA 7.2K drive installed with all VM's (Hyper-V) sitting on an attached SAN. For various reasons we needed some local storage on the server and installed 2 1.2TB SAS drives (10K 2.5")...

Hi, There is lot of information available about how a Fabric extender connects to the Fabric interconnect. e.g. SFP+ ports, cabling etc.I am bit a confused, how does connectivity happen between the blade server and fabric extender inside the chassis....

I need to check if Cisco SCH turned ON and Off staus can be captured by any monitoring software like CA?if yes, what do you need to do? 

Assuming one is deploying a stand alone C220 chassis which will be managed through CIMC, is there an efficient way to collect all the serial numbers for all the minor parts in the chassis?Cutting and pasting from the GUI is painful because complete r...

Dear Techies,I have received the following requirement from one of our customers.********************************************************************************************************************Required Blade Server as per following specs:Location...