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Cisco C240 M3 Flex Flash controller hanging up

I have had two recent cases of Flex Flash controller hanging up on two different C240 M3 servers. Luckily I have been able to resolve this issue by going into CIMC and resetting Flex Flash controller, but this is issue getting too frequent. We are us...

SCOM 2012 UCS pack and C-series monitoring

Hello,Does anyone know if the SCOM 2012 UCS pack can be used to monitor Cisco C-series server at the hardware level?If so, can it do this directly without going through UCSM (FICs)?If not, is there any sort of pack setup for monitoring of C-series se...

Resolved! UCS Central - Migration from local-db to external database?

Hello,we have Central 1.1.(2a) running with a local database and we think about migrating that local postgres-db to an external db.Has anybody of you done that already?Or does anybody know, where to find a best-practive-guide?Thanks, Patrick

Resolved! Licensing UCS Central 1.1(1a)

Having an issue getting UCS Central licensed for the 5 initial domains. Following documentation; I go out to license portal but there is no field for a GUID.I've clicked on just about every link with in the portal but have found nowhere to enter the...

UCSC-C220-M3S

Hello,I am running ESXI 5.1.0 build 1065491 and I keep receiving the error below the only way to get the server back is by rebooting it.Lost access to volume52fa9798-2f07f05f-c1f7-b0faeb97d646(datastore1) due to connectivity issues. Recoveryattempt i...

Upgrading the Infrastructure firmware only

Hi Guys,Is it possible to upgrade the infrastructure firmware only to the latest 2.2 version and leave the blades on 2.0 or 1.3 firmware.Reason is its hard to get downtime to reboot blade and some new blades with V2 CPU requires new firmware. Jibby

After creating RAID 5 for hard disks, CIMC shows Modrate fault

Dear all,There are two UCS servers which the model is C240 M3 When I created RAID 5 for hard disks, CIMC shows Modrate fault. The warring message is storage virtual drive 0 degraded: please check the storage controller, or reseat the storage drive uc...

vnic's gone from traffic monitoring session after UCS upgrade to 2.2(1d)

Any one come across this issue before. After we had upgraded our whole UCS environment to 2.2(1d) all the vnics fromour traffic monitoring sessions were gone and had to be added back in to the session.nothing in upgrade or release notes about it

Resolved! Keyring being post processed every 10 min on UCS 2.2(1b)

Hello, I'm just doing a fresh new UCS install (2.2(1b)), and after having the error of the default keyring being invalid, I've regenerated it. What I'm now seeing in the event log of UCS is that at every 10 min, there is some post ...

Resolved! Adding ports to a vlan on Fabric interconnect (End-host Mode)

Hi All, I have an issue, i created vlan 99 and added the ports and port-channel to the vlan on the ucs fabric interconnects and saved the configs. To my surprise nothing has changed, they are still on vlan 1 (default).See my configuration below.UCS-A...

How to create Dual boot on UCS-C220

While I am unable to start nested VM on VMWare planning to install Ubuntu on a bare metal UCS, also would like to have ESXi as a second boot option. This UCS-C has four raid drives and planning to use one for the Ubuntu and rest for the ESXi.Would a...

UCS Monitoring

Hello,I'd like to know recommended option to monitor UCS, specially for historic traffic flows, bandwidth occupation and so on. UCS Manager can't provide this. Is it possible to track these sort of things with UCS Central? What about UCS Director? Ma...

Call Home: Inventory Full

What is the meaning of the following message in call home ?System Notification from NN62FIP16-A - inventory:full - 2014-05-26 22:04:47 GMT-00:00 system inventoThis has been discussed before, but I can't find it.

Queue depth & execution throttle ?

HelloI am running a few different cna's (vic 1240, vic 1280 & M73KR) (2.03c) with esx 5.0 and windows 2008 r2. In either B200 m3 or B440 m2. fnic 1.5.0.8 and enic 2.12.22 in esx. What would windows use as the driver for any of the above cna's? In the...

UCS-E CIMC SNMP Stops working

Hi,Has anyone seen where SNMP stops responding on a UCS-E after sometime?Disabling and re-enabling SNMP did not resolve issue, but restart of CIMC did. Versions: UCSES.1.5.0.2 (Build Date: 05/15/2013)CIMC Firmware: 2.1(1.20130726203500)The 2.2 releas...