Unified Computing System Discussions

I opened a case with vmware about performance of a w2k8 r2 vm. Vmware support made the following statement.                   "first, the power usage on the vm CPUs seem to stay consistently at the 1064GHz range. The host you're using has the followi...

Last week, I attempted to update a pair of 2208XPs from 2.0(3b) to 2.0(5a). I followed the upgrade guide, and ran into a known bug related to an out-of-space condition on the IOMs. TAC was able to walk me through the fix, and now I'm ready to complet...

Hello,We have a major issue with our NLB cluster since migrating to UCS, Can anyone help at all ?ESX5.1 host running on Cisco UCS B series blade.2 x Windows 2008 R2 servers running NLB (unicast as multicast will not work) inside the ESX5.1 host (Dist...

I've initially setup our B200-M3 blades running RHEL 6.4 to boot off of iscsi storage (HP P4330s storage) and all appears to boot and run fine.Our initial boot disk setup is only 40Gb. No VM. I now need to add data storage to one of our servers and a...

Hello Folks,I am not able to find this particular ESXi iso image on Cisco or Vmware Websites.ESXi 5.0 update 2.Can someone help with the link or details .

Hello,I just installed the DCNM 6.2.1 as a VSB on the Nexus 1100.I can rech the webgui, but I dont know what the login user is.No standard user/pw combination works. Do you have some ideas what I can try?Or is there a documentation with this informat...

I am using the default keyring in UCSM & have installed this cert to my trusted root certs. The problem I am seeing is that everytime I go to view the fault summary tab within UCS Central & click on my UCSM, it pops up the warning "UCSM Communication...

Hi Team ,We added new Chassis into our exisitng UCS infrastructure.We discovered Chassis also & gave IPs to CIMC of new servers also.New Chassis IOM to FI cabling is also correct.But when i am trying to communicate with CIMC of Servers, connecion is ...

Hi everyone,Our end customer has a UCS and we need to perform a password recovery. Since they lost all users, we need to restore factory default. They kept a backup of the configuration using the "show configuration all" command in UCSM CLI and "sho...

I have setup UCS Platform Emulator 2.1 running on an ESXI host. I noticed after connecting to the Default configuration, that all of the servers where 'missing'. It showed the Slot as provissioned but missing. So to try and 'resolve' this, I tried to...

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

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...

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...