Unified Computing System Discussions

UCS 2.0 to 2.1 Upgrade with Direct Attached Storage

Hi,I have a scenario where I will be upgrading a UCS environment from 2.0 to 2.1 utilizing direct attached FC storage on the Fabric Interconnects. From my understanding on what I've read is that the default zoning will no longer work and some additi...

Dear Expert

Dear Expert,Can someone pls tell me the procedure or steps to upgrade from UCS 1.4 to 2.0. Much Thanks,Mukesh

Connecting Fabric Interconnects together with FC

Hi,Is it possible to link two Fabric Interconnects together with FC uplinks?If I have two sites and I have a pair of Fabric Interconnects in site A and a pair in site B. Is it possible to connect FI-A of site A to FI-A in site B via an FC upllink por...

vNIC pinning to HW port channel in UCS

Hi there,my question is the following:given that you use the vic 1240 mLOM + 1280 mezz for "real" redundancy in a M3 blade + 2208 IOM, that creates 4 different port channels composed of 2 x 10GbE KR lanes each.Then when creating a vNIC in your servic...

1000v -Problems after 1000v upgrade from 5.1a to 2.1.1

Hello, We recently upgraded our Active and standby VSM pair form 5.1a to 2.1.1 in preparation to go fomr ESX 5.0 to ESX 5.1.We did the upgrade in two environments without issue. However out prod evvironment is causing issues. The upgrade went fine , ...

i am unable to browse internet from my cisco 881 router and configuration is below could any one help me in this regard

HOME#sho runBuilding configuration...Current configuration : 5657 bytes!! Last configuration change at 10:51:11 UTC Fri May 17 2013 by admin!version 15.0no service padservice timestamps debug datetime msecservice timestamps log datetime msecno servic...

Ask the Experts: Design, Plan, Configure, Implement, and Troubleshoot Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

With Ozden KarakokWelcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn how to design, plan, configure, implement, and troubleshoot Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) with Cisco expert Ozden Karakok. FCoE...

ESXi 5.1 Update 1 with UCS B and C Series

VMware site states the ESXi 5.1 Update 1 is supported with UCS but Cisco interop does not state that it is supported. When will UCS interop state support for ESXi 5.1 Update 1?

Resolved! Redhat 6.4 network connectivity setup

Please excuse my lack of knowledge in this area as this is all new to us (UCS, SAN and Linux). We have a UCS chassis with B200 series blades and are booting off ISCSI disks on a HP 43000 storage nodes.With help from the CISCO rep, we setup the UCSM s...

Resolved! IOM Update Status: Updating

Just curious if anyone else has run into an IOM firmware update that takes forever. I'm working on a 2 chassis domain with a pair of FIs in an HA pair. The two IOMs (2208xp) in chassis two updated quickly (well, quick for UCS firmware updates, so abo...

B200 M3 - esxi 5.0 slow boot

I have several B200 m3's booting esx 5.0 off local drives. It takes around 45 minutes to boot each. Most of the wait time is loading esxi modules. Such as the one below it sits at for about 10 minutes."hbr_filter loaded successfully""running usbarbit...

No FLOGI on nexus 5020 switch - UCS C200 M1/P81E

[update]issue has been resolved.switch# show flogi database--------------------------------------------------------------------------------INTERFACE VSAN FCID PORT NAME NODE NAME -------------------------------...

Mixing PSU N20-PAC5-2500W and UCSB-PSU-2500ACPL

Is it acceptable to mix Gold and Platinum Power Supply Units in one chassis? N20-PAC5-2500W Gold PSU UCSB-PSU-2500ACPL Platinum PSU

UCS Central Pools

Hi, when I create pools in UCS Central they do not get updated in UCS Platform Emulator 2.1.1a, is this normal behaviour?. I have tried IP Pools, ext-mgmt IP Pools, and MAC pools, either way they cannot be referenced in UCSPE whic...

I used to stuck in Collection Manager installation for Cisco SCE

I used to install Cisco Service Control Management Suite Collection Manager.Before that I have to install CentOS 5.5 and then install MySQL Database.For MySQL installation, I have to use some SQL command to complete the installationbut no configurati...