Unified Computing System Discussions

Hi;I have a requirement for a datacentre interconnection that the DCs are about 600km apart. Has anyone experienced the DCB (Datacentre Bridging) at close to this distance? or should I be looking at OTV ?The features what I am looking between the DCs...

Hi, While introducing an MDS9148 switch to the environment we changed Fabric Interconnect FC mode from Switch to End Host. However, after the required FI reboot all ports in the FC Expansion Module were completely dead - they show up as failed in UCS...

Dear all,My UCS chassis now facing a problem, that is UCSM fail to discover blades (2 blades), when I looked into FSM of the task discovery, i saw the following: <computeBladeFsmStage  descr="detect mezz cards in 1/1(FSM-STAGE:sam:dme:ComputeBladeDis...

Chaps,If is just me but all previos versions of 1000v software take the naming convention nexus-1000v-kickstart-mz.X.X.X.SVx.X.binAn now I have the latest software:nexus-1000v-kickstart.4.2.1.SV2.1.1a.binAm I missing a trick here?  Or has there been ...

Hi,I am working on a project on which the customer has limited access to 10GigE Ports on their Core Network.As we all know you can configure LAN Appliances under the FI6248, but I was wondering if I can use such option within the FI to connect the EM...

Hi All,We have recently setup a Cisco UCS platform, with 4 chassis, and using the fabric interconnect/UCS Manager to manage the racks.Our monitoring team uses EMC Smarts (v9) for monitoring the whole environment. We have been having trouble getting t...

I am looking to run some kind if report    that will give me all deivces that have - "Video Capabilities Enabled." I am trying something run sql select * from device where name = 'SEP######'    which is given me what appears to everything I might nee...

I understand if there is one 10 GB PCI card from a C240 M3 going to the Fabric Interconnects you would need to cross the connections one going to FAB-A and one going to FAB-B.  However, if you have two PCI cards do you plug all of adapter 1 into FAB-...

I have two UCS C220-M3 stand alone servers each with 4 500GB drives configured with raid5. Can I remove one HDD from one server and add to the other without rebuilding ESXi host and guests?

I see conflicting information regarding the ESXi 5.5 and 5.5 U1 Support for B230-M1 Blade with Palo Adaptor (see attachment) and UCS 2.2.1http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/interoperability/matrix/r_hcl_B_rel2-21.pdfsays E...

Hi all,We are planning to upgrade our vSphere environment from 5.0U1 to 5.5 and our UCS hardware from 2.0(4b) to 2.1(3b) soon.All ESXi hosts are running on UCS hardware. Most them run on B230-M1 blades.As we checked the compatibility matrixes, we not...

Hi Guys,I was wondering if you could provide me with some insight.If I have 2 L3 devices in my collapsed core and distribution layer, how do I go about configuring VLANS? Currently I have 2 Core/Dist Switches both running L3 and 5 Access SwitchesI've...