Unified Computing System Discussions

Hi Guys,We just got a new UCS c220 server, we were deploying Esxi on it and all of a sudden it started alarming a beep sound and it is continuous, there are no logs generated either CIMC nor the led indications, what might be the possible reason, an ...

Man, that's a long title I just typed. But maybe a better chance of getting more Google juice :-)Important thing is this adds ESX 5.1 support for the B230 M1 and B440 M1 servers that many of you still have and are still in production.Direct link to d...

Hi,We currently have 2 - Catalyst 45072 - Catalyst 3750X2 - UCS 62481 - UCS 51081 - EMC VNX5300B200M3 Blade serversCisco UCS VIC 1240 modular LOMWhat is the best practice for setting this up for a VMware 5.X environment?Can Cisco VN-Link or VM-FEX be...

on my 1000v, when i try to move my control nic to the 1000v dvS, packets are not forwarding and the vem loses connectivity to the vsm.on the 1000v my uplink is configured asport-profile type ethernet ucs-n1kv-uplink  vmware port-group  switchport mod...

   We started using UCS Central .. Its very cool . I can add domains into UCS Central . I see pools of the domains I add in . I even see the fault Numbers at the top of the screen . What I cannot do is click on the faults tab or events tab of any Dom...

Hi,i've installed a new UCS Pod with a couple of B200M3 and 420M3, each Blade have one VIC1240 and one VIC1280. After Installing ESX 5.1 on the Blades i can see in the Networking pane of the vsphere client that the discovered VNICs by vmware have dif...

Hello,Our customer reported that their vsphere hosts deployed on Cisco UCS unexpectedly crash (purple screen). The hosts are san booted.We checked release notes for firmware 2.0(2r) and came across this information:- "Fibre Channel firmware issues di...

Hi all,I am putting together a BOM for a UC deployment of CUCM, CUC and UCCX.  I have chosen a C220 as the platform, part number UCUCS-EZ-C220M3S.However, I am struggling to determine what VMWare component to add to this order. My server has 64Gb of ...

Hi,We have followings:Chassis 5108FI 6248FEX 2208Adapter VIC(1240), 2 vNIC for VMData (VoIP applications), a few others vNIC for mgmt, vmotion etc.ESXi 5.1CUCM, Unity, etcFor example, CUCM and Unity marked VoIP media as CoS 5 and signaling as 3.Will ...

We're wondering how UCS decides which FC port on the 6120 Fabric Interconnects to send fc traffic out of?We have four fc ports per Fabric Interconnect.Our storage engineer is working on zoning and network documentation and he is asking how we can tel...

I am getting ready to roll out a new deployment of UCS that I have quasi-inherited part way through.  I have experience with HP blades and Juniper gear, but here is my first soup to nuts roll out for UCS.  I just want to make sure I have all my bases...

Big Thanks to Nick Anderson for putting together this amazing guide.  From Cabeling to creating pools and policys this guide has it all.http://speakvirtual.com/2013/02/08/cisco-ucs-101-installation-and-basic-config-2/Be sure to follow him on twitter ...