Unified Computing System Discussions

We are running UCS and we have some blades running vmware. We have a SAN Storage in the backend which the vm's are installed on. We are in the process of upgrading vmware from 5.0 to 5.5. The problem we ran into is all the hosts that have been upgrad...

I have a question, and I cannot seem to find an answer in documentation or other questions on the support community.  In UCS Manager, if you click a blade server, click the inventory tab, click the memory subtab, you see a graphical display of the me...

This link to the release notes of 2.2(1b) is broken:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/release/notes/ucs_2_2_rn.htmlCan someone provide a working link or have it fixed?

We've been testing iSCSI booting on UCS with 2.0(1t) and the Palo M81KR with an EqualLogic PS6010. We are connecting through a 10GbE switch via an uplink port. However, we've hit a snag and want to see if anyone else has gotten around this. The EQL s...

Can someone explain what this error message means ? I cannot find it in http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ts/faults/reference/UCSFaultsRef.pdfThanks Walter.                  

Hi All,I need to know from which link can i get versions of BIOS , CIMC , Host firmware packages versions ... I am making LLD so i need to include this informationAnother question i have is that ..  I have M81KR with B230 M2  cisco compatibility matr...

Is there a rule how big a boot lun must be for a W2012 server installation; server memory size, e.g. 64GB / 128GB / 256 GB / 512 GBI have seen, that for a 512 GB size, a boot lun of 60GB is by far not enough.            

While planning for an upgrade from 2.0 -> 2.1 we noticed the warning about Default Zoning not being supported in 2.1(1a) and later releases. Is it possible to reconfigure and disable Default Zoning without causing any disruptions?The system is runnin...

Good days Gurus,I am being tested in the emulator of UCS, the characteristics of Local Zoning of the fabric. The versions are not saved! that I am using are :Cisco_UCS_Platform_Emulator_2.1.1ape2 and Cisco_UCS_Platform_Emulator_2.1.3aPE1.The steps th...

Hi,In our environment, there are 4 B440 servers using vic 1280. When i tried to figure out which FC uplink port each server is using, 3 servers show the FC VIF Path is unpinned (picture attached), only one shows the current FC Port (1/30).Is anyone h...

Hi All,I have a customer who is look to double the memory allocation in their B200 M3 Server blades.At present they have deployed 8 x UCS-MR-1X162RY-A (16GB DDR3-1600-MHz RDIMM/PC3-12800/dual rank/1.35v) so wanted to verify if there are any concerns ...

Hello,I am trying to assist my customer develop a tool to generate inventory/health reports and part of that involves logging into the C-series system using PowerTool CLI - Customer is able to login by using local authentication (user-id and password...