Unified Computing System Discussions

I’m wanting to get the Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist and Design Specialist certifications.  I’m a bit confused as to the prerequisites to get these certification as I’ve received different answers from different people and th...

Hi ,I changed some Vmnics on UCS 6248 (remove and create new one) but on 1000V I have an error 2012 Nov 13 11:29:17 E2VSM001 %ETH_PORT_CHANNEL-5-PCM_ROLLBACK_MAX_PORTS_EXCEEDED: Max ports per channel exceeded while trying to create port-channel 0. Ro...

Hi,My first post here! I got 4 B200M3 blades with VIC 1240 and 1280. I have installed vSphere 5.1 on them. The blades are configed with a number of NIC's.The NIC's get a speed of 20gb full duplex(set on auto negotiation) and i would like to set them ...

First off I know very little about the SAN and it's configuration.  I am in the process of bringing up UCS chassis using a pair 6248 Fabric Interconnects.  Does anybody have any information about best practice configurations for this scenario.  I wou...

Hi All,I was working on setting up UCS blades servers today.  There are two fabric interconnects.  I connected them to the chassis using 4 links on each.  For some reason only one of the io modules is showing up (io module 2).  Any idea what could ca...

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...