Unified Computing System Discussions

Resolved! Does a UPC(Unified Port Controller) of the FI 6200 supports multi protocol port concurrently?

Hello a Good Person,Does a UPC(Unified Port Controller) of the FI 6200 supports multi protocol ports concurrently?For example, Second UPC has 1/9-16. can I configure those ports like these? 1/9-10 for Server ports , 1/11-12 for Uplink ports, 1/13-14 ...

vSphere 5.1 Load Balancing with UCS

Hi,We are running Cisco UCS 2.1(2a), B200 M3 blades, Nexus 5k switching and vSphere 5.1 Update 1If we are not running Cisco 1000v virtual switching and just using VMware vDS, what should the port-channel load balancing method be set to on the Nexus 5...

UCSE E140D not booting

So I have two of these in 2951s that are not booting (against three more that are). The CIMC is not coming up at all. The power LED on the module is amber and blinking. The router itself seems fine (although I'm not doing much with it besides configu...

Resolved! UCS-Blade do not boot from disk local

Hi everyone,I have a UCS-Blade and UCSM with version 2.1 (1e), I create the boot policy to boot from the disk local and raid 1.The trouble is that when the Blade server boot show me the screen in SHELL, in other words the server st...

Resolved! Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server NTP/Timezone? M Port Speed/Duplex?

All, have aprox 100 C220's deployed and need to setup NTP and hardcode speed/duplex on the management port (assuming it's set to autoneg). Can anyone advise how this is to happen as I don't see anything readily available in CIMC GUI or CLI. Any docs ...

Resolved! SAN Boot Policy Clarification

I would like some clarification regarding the SAN Boot policy. I was always under the impression you were suppose to use the WWPN of the storage port. But what if you have many storage ports coming from the array (16 for example), this would not be p...

FI mgmt ports as pvlan isolated ???

Hello,Is it possible to connect the 2 FI mgmt ports to a OOB switch where the 2 interfaces are configurated as pvlan isolated ?So the 2 FI Mgmt ports could not see each other ?Is is a issu for VIP cluster address ?Thx.Nicolas.

Resolved! Physical Connectivity from Fabric Interconnect to MDS and Failover please suggest

Dear TeamWe have 2 FI and 2 MDS 1 SANCurrenlty the connectivity is2 direct physical connections from FI-A to MDS12 direct physical Connections from FI-B to MDS2From MDS 1 connection to SAN Primary controllerFrom MDS 1 connection to SAN Secondary cont...

Resolved! UCS Express E140D CIMC KVM certificate revoked

So I've got a bunch of 2951s with E140D blades in them. I need to install ESXi on them but the stinking KVM (accessed through the CIMC) for every one of them comes up with a certificate revoked error.I just did this for a bunch of C240 M3s without an...

Fabric Port Channel - Added a server port need to remove it

I recently changed my global chassis connectivity policy to 1 link with port channel configuration. I originally had 4 links connected to each IOM, but wanted to go down to 2. I re-acknowledged the chassis after making the change and disabling the ot...

create a vPC from the Fabric Interconnects to N5k’s

hi allam i right in saying that you cannot create a vPC from the FI's to the N5k's if carrying VSAN traffic?

UCS Design Best practice for vMotion

hi,We are deploying a new UCS domain with 8 chassis and 50/60 B200M3 for installed an VMware infrastructure 5.0For each ESXi, we need : 2 vNIC dedicated to Management Network 2 vNIC dedicated to vMotion4 vNIC dedicated to srvThese vNIC will be config...

Server UCS B440 M2 problems Error

I have the following errors in the discover the server UCS B440 M2 in the chasis UCS 5180 the firmware is 2.1(1f)FSMFSM Status: In ProgressDescription:Current FSM Name: DiscoverCompleted at:Progress Status: 9%Remote Invocation Result: End Point Proto...

Resolved! Designated Broadcast/multicast uplink port

Hi all,If I have a chassis with two 2208IO modules and FI6248XPs,I pinning each server on each uplink.I setup a designated B/M uplink on FI6248 port 1, Does it mean only blade 1 server can receive B/M traffic?As far as I know, If i want to access a s...

Disjoint L2 Limit Information Missing from Configuration Limits Guide

Hello Team,Just wanted to inform you of an omission in the documentation: Disjoint L2 information is missing from the configuration limits guides.Both the UCS 2.1 GUI Configuration Guide and UCS 2.0 GUI Configuration Guide reference the Configuratio...