Unified Computing System Discussions

UCS Connecting to two different storrage with two different SAN switch.

I currently have 2 X 6296 ucs Fabric connected to CISCO SAN Switch (VSAN default) with Hitachi storrage.I have 4 B200 bladesIn this setup two of my b200 blades boot from the SAN. (Esxi 30GB and storrage 1TB) for Call managerNow my storrage team brin...

Resolved! UCS 210 M2 RAID and VMWARE

Hello'I have cisco UCS 210 M2 Server with 10 HD 140GB, I insert new HD and I rebuilt the RAID, but when I installed the Vmware 5.0 the server could not see the Vmware.see the attached picture , what is this message , is it relarted

Resolved! Need help for setup VM-FEX on UCSM 2.2(1b)

Hi expers,I try to setup VM-FEX on FI6120 with version 2.2(1b). And vCenter and vSphere running on the version 5.5. The extension plug-in can success add-on. But when I setup VMware Integration it always failed and show "extvmmProvider: connot contai...

UCS C22 M3

Hi,Please find the attached.I want to know the RAID controller firmware for UCS C22 M3 Servers, when i try to access through CIMC it is showing me nothing.How can i get it??Thanks

NIC Teaming W2012

Is this a valid configuration:UCS 2.1.2a, Ethernet EHMSp with 2 vnics, vnic0 fabric A and vnic1 fabric BW2012 OS without Hyper-V; Team vnic 0 and 1: switch independent mode (FI doesn't support LACP), all adaptor active, loadbalancing address hash ...

Fabric Interconnect 6248 & 5548 Connectivity on 4G SFP with FC

Hi,Recently I came across a scenario when I connected a 4G SFP on Expansion Module of 6248 Fabric Interconnect at one end and at other end 4G SFP on 5548UP. I was unable to establish FC connectivity between both of the devices and the momemt I connec...

Network Connectivity-Best Practise

Hi, We need to install a C240 M3 SFF with 2 CISCO Intel i350 Quad Port 1Gb Adapter on it. The server has totally 8 network ports(each Intel i350 Quad Port 1Gb Adapter has 4 ports).What is best practise to connect the ports to the switch in terms of r...

Jumbo Frames size

Can someone please clarify the secrets about Jumbo Frame Size.Here are some findingson UCS QoS, max is 9216 (eg. best effort QoS)on a ethernet vnic, max is 9000Setup UCS - N5K - Netapp for NFS, L2 no routing, Netapp vfiler interface 9000vmkping with ...

Resolved! UCS C200 M2 - Drive Tray Screws?

Hello everyone,I have a C200 M2 bundle server for my home Lab that came without any installed drives.Since this is for lab work only and I wanted to save money I used my own SATA Drives but I couldn't find screws that are thin enough head to use with...

Resolved! ESX 5.5 Teaming Issue VIC1225

my environment is like this:2 c220 M3 Servers with VIC1225 connected to 2 X Nexus 5548.i created 8 vNICs and 2 vHBAs and install ESX 5.5.when tring to add second nic for Teaming i lose connectivity to ESX.i tried with and wihtout ehterchannel on the ...

UCS Manager Issue with 2.0(2q) and Java

Hey All, I have done some reasearch and realize that we are far behind in our current UCS software but I am running into an issue. In Jan/Feb we are supposed to do a major upgrade of both our UCS and CUCM\UC infrastructure at my job. In prep for that...

Resolved! Host firmware package upgrade from 2.1(1b) -> 2.1(3a) APEI Generic Hardware Error

Hello all, We just did a UCS firmware upgrade from 2.1(1b) to 2.1(3a). Our UCS is using the B200-M3 blades. And I use firmware policy to update the firmware on the blades. I just did one blade as a test to upgrade from 2.1(1b) to 2.1(3a), and ...

More space, lower performance?

Good afternoon, all!I need to increase the memory in four of my UCS C210 M2 servers. They're currently running VMware 4.1 with 12 4G DIMMS, for a total of 48G memory per server. If I increase the memory to 96G with 12 8G DIMMS, that will be a best-...

Resolved! Installing UCS 240 M3 SFF

Hi,We have purchased 4 Cisco UCS 240 M3 SFF(Two each in 2 Data Center) for migrating hardware from Cisco MCS to Cisco UCS.We have purchased VMware vSphere Standard 5 software directly from VMware.As new to virtualized server platform ,will help if so...

Resolved! Regarding WWN of HBA

Hi,I need help some help for UCS B series and C series device for getting the HBAs detail using MIB I have checked the cucsAdaptorHostFcIfTable table [CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-ADAPTOR-MIB ] where I able to get the details for HBAs but in the table i...