Unified Computing System Discussions

Help on ordering UC

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 ...

UCS QoS, VoIP applications and upstream switch

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 ...

UCS and Fibre Channel

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...

New UCS Deployment - What am I missing

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...

Resolved! EMC Data Domain directly connected as a VTL

Hello,Can I connect an EMC Data Domain working as a VTL (with EMC Networker) directly to Fabric Interconnects of a UCS 2.1?Thanks a lot,

Cisco UCS 101: Installation and Basic Config

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 ...

Resolved! UCS with vsphere to BFS on IBM XIV

Hello,It seems that IBM XIV storage has a limitation around the minimum LUN size, which appears to be 17 GB. Taking into consideration that one of the added values of UCS is the boot from SAN using the service profiles, and that most of the UCS imple...

Resolved! UC on UCS with iSCSI

Hi,I was wondering if there is any update regarding UC on UCS support for booting from iSCSI SAN?I would like to implement the follwoing scenario: B-Series Chassis with an ESX 5.1 B200M3 Server which hosts UC Apps (UCSM 2.1). Could we boot that serve...

Resolved! What tool is used to open and read UCS tech support files

Hello, Due to internal Infosec policies, I need to open and read UCS tech supoort files that I generate prior to sending them to Cisco TAC. Can someone tell me what tool I can use to accomplish this task? Thanks.

Resolved! temperature values of blade servers with snmp

Hello everybody,is there a way to read the current cpu temperature or other environmental counters from a B200M3 with snmp or does anybody know the OIDs to get these values?BR Stephan

Windows 2003 on UCS C240 M3

Hello,We need to install Windows server 2003 on Cisco UCS C240 M3 server while the Cisco configuration utility for c240 M3 only support windows 2008 r2 , windows 2008 r2 sp1 and windows 2012 server. I need some help finding the driver of the raid con...

Resolved! C220 Can't find drives in 2008 R2

I have 2 physical drives and have setup my array in the Mega Raid Bios. WHen it boots it shows my configured virtual drive. I then proceed to install Server 2008 R2 on it. The problem I am having, I've tried every storage driver included on the "...

Cannot ping 2 N5K with Jumbo frame

Hi all,I have an UCS architecture from ESxi to N5K (with MK81R and FI6248)I would like to check a ping or wmkping between 2 hosts with failure.So I started to check the jumbo frame between 2 N5K on the same vlan and I have the same...

Host firmware package

Hi,I am trying to create a new host firmware pakage for version 2.1.(1a).I was able to find right hardwares for Aadpter, CIMC, BIOS, and storage but couldn't find right one for board controller.We are using B200 M3 but not listed under the tab. (see ...

Resolved! c-200m1 doesn't allow ip management after KVM session

Hello,Our customer is having following issue: he connects locally to the KVM of a c-200m1 through the serial/vga ports, and right afterwards he can't access remotely to the CIMC via IP, unless he reboots the server. Is that a common behavior of these...

Unified Computing System Discussions

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Help on ordering UC

UCS QoS, VoIP applications and upstream switch

UCS and Fibre Channel

New UCS Deployment - What am I missing

Resolved! EMC Data Domain directly connected as a VTL

Cisco UCS 101: Installation and Basic Config

Resolved! UCS with vsphere to BFS on IBM XIV

Resolved! UC on UCS with iSCSI

Resolved! What tool is used to open and read UCS tech support files

Resolved! temperature values of blade servers with snmp

Windows 2003 on UCS C240 M3

Resolved! C220 Can't find drives in 2008 R2

Cannot ping 2 N5K with Jumbo frame

Host firmware package

Resolved! c-200m1 doesn't allow ip management after KVM session

Firmware upgrade from 3.2(3) to 4.1(3m)

UCSM vMedia mount error

Confusing slot assignment in C240-M5SX

SNS 3515 cannot downgrade firmware to lower version of 3.0(4m)

Outage when multiple domains became ungrouped in UCS Central

C220-M5 Optane DCPMM Requirements

UCS C220 M4 HDD/Raid Troubleshoot

Relocating one of the fabric interconnect 6200 without downtime

C220 M4 — Fans running at maximum speed without alarms on CIMC 4.1(2m)

New UCS-X Direct deployment - looking for X-Series server firmware