Unified Computing System Discussions

Hi, We have a UCS 6100 and wanted to boot from a VNX 5300 directly connected via FCoE. My understanding is his cannot be done due to the FCoE multihop limitation. Also, we are not able to implement zoning on the UCS. The Nexus 5K has been sugested as...

H everyone,I  have a C210 M2 Server with LSI MegaRAID 9261-8i Card with 16 hard  drives of each 146GB.If I am going to run CUCM, CUC and CUPS to support up to 5000 users, What is the best practice to configure virtual drives? Do I need any hot spare ...

There's so many ways to skin the management cat. Most of the time I answer the question by saying "Use your management tool of choice, or see if anyone has written some Powershell script to solve that problem". I often forget that sometimes the simpl...

Has anyone completed the upgrade to 2.0?  And if so, how was your experience?I have the firmware bundles downloaded and am preparing to run the upgrade but wanted to know if anyone has run into any issues.  I have checked and do not have any FCoE VLA...

Hi all... I was wondering if anyone knows how the needed amount of uplinks from UCS fabric interconnects to upstream switches is determined. I also would like to know how the number of links between FEX mods and fabric interconnects are determined. I...

Hi everyone,I'm wondering what the recommended design/configuration is for a VMware vMotion network on UCS-B Series v2.0?1. Create a single vNIC with A-B failover for the vSwitch2. Create 2 vNICs with A-B failover and make them both active for the vS...

Hi there guys!I'm a dummy in UCS world !!!On UCS 2.0, I need to add new vlan in a ServiceProfile Template who is binded on production service profileDoes unbinding a Service Profile Template is a destructive action ?Greetings

Dear Community,We are trying to set a up a  Cisco UCS Blade System for SAN Boot. The SAN are two EMC VNX 5300  Storages and the OS is OEL 5 Update 8 x86-64.Steps performed:-> boot lun with 300 GB configured on both EMC Storages and granted access for...

Hello AllIt is possible to patch cucm remotely via a webex connection?.If so, can someone direct me to documentation on how to do this and what software clients I will need e.g vsphere client.I have never ever done this before so will need some hand ...

Hi,I had an issue where traffic on one of my ESXI port groups stopped passing traffic.Port Group name :UCM  vnic 1&2         -     Catalyst 4500     Etherchannel     Mode on, access vlan 100Port Group name :Unity/Uccx vnic 3&4 -     Catalyst 4500    ...

Hello everyone,I ran into an interesting issue this evening. While upgrading our B200 blade from 2.0(1t) to 2.0(3c) our servers did not boot into the Cisco firmware utility. The system showdown the OS, rebooted and began the OS load, then during mid-...