Unified Computing System Discussions

Hi,I was wondering if it's possible to monitor a SPAN session that's been setup on a Cisco MDS, via a Fabric interconnect. So for example, setup the span session on the Cisco MDS, connect the FC Span port from the MDS to a Fabric Interconnect, then c...

Hi all, can someone tell me please how to clear alerts in Cisco Unified Computing System Manager?some off blades has been powered off as part of troubleshooting and  this generated faults in CUCS. faults has been asknowledged but how to clear them?al...

Hi Folks ,Today we enabled Syslog & configured local file destination in UCS manager.Very curious to see whether entries are getting in this file or not ?How can i view UCS local syslog file & check it.Is there any way to transfer that file from Fabr...

Hi all,Anyone with any thoughts re this:Dual site setup with NetApp Fabric MetroCluster (two storage controllers stretched over fiber links)Two Nexus 5000 switches at each site, so we have two FC fabrics, stretching both sites (as required for MetroC...

Could you give me some detailed steps or attentionsThe IOS is VMware ESXi, Thanks very much.

Hey guys, hopefully this is an easy one. What is the maximum power draw that a 5108 chassis can handle? In other words, how many amps can the chassis actually take? I thought I heard 32A at some point, but I can't find it in any documentation. Thanks

I want to configure a disjoint layer 2 network in UCS.  For this, I have created dedicated NIC templates with only the disjointed networks VLAN specified.  I have 8 total NICS going to ESXi and only 2 of them were created from the 'dedicated' disjoin...

I am trying to get a handle on Best practices around the networking part of the ESX-i deployment. I am using 5.1 I am not using a V1000 so is it better to add another Vswitch to esx or is it good enough just to create another port group.. As well as ...

Hello,I am setting up a UCS240M3 with 12TB (3TB X 4). I used the SCU to create RAID 5 from all disks using maximum size of 12TB. I installed win2k8 R2 and noticed it used about 15Gb (i did not select this size during install, there were no options fo...

Hi everybody,I have the below UCS server with the part number and description: Part Number ==> R200-BUN-2  Description ==>UCS C200 M2Hard Drive ==>250Gb SATA 2 qtyI want to add a RAID controller to it, please suggest to me the type and part number of...

Hello,we have a problem with Virtual Machines running on ESXi 4.1 on UCS 1.4(i) Blades.Configuration:2 Fabric Interconnects2 VNICs per Service Profile for VM traffic, NO pinning groups2 Uplink ports per FI, one to each Core Switchwhen we are doing fa...