Unified Computing System Discussions

How can I release assigned identities from Service Profile?

Hi, As you know, when I create a service profile with serveral pools, each service profile holds its own identities such as MAC, WWnN, WWpN, Mgmt IP, etc.I really want to know how to release those assigned identities from SP back to the pools. Thanks...

Ask the Expert: Cisco UCS Troubleshooting Boot from SAN with FC and iSCSI

Welcome to this Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco UCS Troubleshooting Boot from SAN with FC and iSCSI with Vishal Mehta and Manuel Velasco.The current industry trend i...

Resolved! Howto set timezone on UCS C220 M3 by CLI

Hello, I have configured NTP in the GUI but due to a wrong timezone time isn't OKI cannot edit the timezone in the GUI so I looked for CLI commands.http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/cli/config/guide/1-3-1/b_CLI_Config_Guid...

UCS server c240 m3 raid 10 with backup disk.

Hello,I have c240 ucs with raid 10 ( 6 disk) + one disk not configured. Is it possible configure that disk to automaticaly replace when disk in raid die? Something like hot standby.If there is no such a feature, what is procedure when one of disk s...

UCS C210 Memory Configuration

Good Morning,We just purchased 2 UCS C210s for our new virtual infrastructure. When we purchased all the equipment we wanted 48GB of RAM for each machine. When we opened the machine we noticed that there was already 8GB of RAM in the A1 and D1 chan...

Resolved! Nexus1000V load balancing

Hello,could someone help me clarify this...In our environment we have a Nexus1000V. VEMs are connected to two uplink switches. At this point neither mac-pinning nor vPC-HM are being used and nexus is running the default load-balancing mechanism (sour...

Virtual-service-blade reduncancy not working

I have a pair of n1010 appliances in an HA pair. The redundancy is working as expected. I have an existing virtual-service-blade configured and enabled, which is operating as expected in an HA mode. When I attempt to build a second virtual-service-bl...

Nexus1000v Configuration and Migration from vmware vDS

really need some guidance here....I am trying to deploy the 1000v in l3 mode, which to my understanding using mgmt0 and control0 only. Packet and control traffic are carried on the same interface. So here are my questions:Do I still need 3 port-group...

Yet another encapsulation ? isn't VXlan and NVGRE enough ?

Not a question but something you should be aware ofVMware, Microsoft end encapsulation protocol turf war with GENEVEMicrosoft and VMware have proposed the GENEVE encapsulation protocol to the IETF. It would standardize tunneling methods for network o...

Memory Upgrade

Hi, Am planning to upgrade my RAM used in B200-M3 blade from 128GB to 256GB.Now my A0,A1,B0,B1,C0,C1,D0,D1,E0,E1,F0,F1,G0,G1,H0,H1 are populated with 8GB and planning to install 16GB modules in the remaining 8 slots with 16GB.Is it possible to mix ...

Resolved! Encrypted ports in 6120XP

Hi,I am new to Cisco UCS, I am currently studying the hardware isntallation guide of Cisco UCS Fabric interconnect 6100 series in the following link. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/hw/switch/install/ucs6100_install/overvie...

UCS private-vlans

Hey all,I'm doing some UCS studying and I'm trying to understand how private-vlans work within UCS, but there's surprisingly little documentation on the subject. So far, based mostly on trial-and-error, these seem to be the rules for using pvlans in...

Resolved! a SP boots to BIOS gui interface ?

I just created and associated a new SP to a B200M3.When i check the boot server via the vConsole, i can see that the B200 switch to BIOS "gui interface". If i try to go out the bios, the B200M3 switch back to bios.... in short, i can not leave the bi...

Resolved! ESXi host connection

Hello,I have a UCS 5108 chassis with two B200 M3 server blades and FabricInterconnect 6248 (no expansion module) with 2.2(1d) version running. I have installed ESXi 5.1 on both blades. Now I can add one of the ESX host to my vCenter, but the other on...

UCS Management Pack for System Center 2012 OpsMgr add monitor wizard error

We're successfully using the 2.6.0.179 version of the UCS Management Pack for System Center 2012 Operations Manager in our 2012 SP1 OpsMgr environment; however, in the new 2012 R2 OpsMgr environment we've stood-up and in which we installed the 2.6.2....