Unified Computing System Discussions

I've been reading about upgrading to version 2.1 & the biggest feature I've been wanting to try out is FC Zoning, however I've read 2 different articles that suggest that this feature is really only suggested for smaller deployments or dev/lab enviro...

I am trying to use the out of band managment port (RJ45 port) on the back of the C220M3 server so we can connect it to an MRV. Does anyone know what the baude rate is? I would think 9600, N, 8,1 and tried several buade rates, but I could not get in. ...

Hi, I tried to configure an ldap authentification on UCSM2.1. My connexion is OK but I can't get the "role" of my user. To finish my role is Read-only. When I test as :      UCSM01-B(nxos)# test aaa server ldap  <ldapserver> <user> <password>    ...

We have a couple 6120XP fabric interconnects setup in a cluser.  The expansion modules have the 6 port 8Gb fiber channel expansion modules in them.  Presently, we are only using two of the 8Gb ports per fabric interconnect.  They are connected to por...

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...