Unified Computing System Discussions

Hi,We have a small POD which has followings:UCS 5108FI 6248 (two)FEX 2208B200M3NetApp 2240Plan is to connect NetApp directly via FC.Are there any cons (pros) doing this.Thanks,Harry

We have two 10 Gb links going from our FIs to two core Brocade MLX switches. They work fine.Now, we are trying to do a Layer 2 Disjoint for two 1 Gb links to a Brocade ICX 6610 DMZ switch. No matter what we do, we get an "ENM Loop Disabled" error. If...

Hi All,Have just been having a wuick look at virtual fibre channel on a couple of B230 M2's and was looking at the virtual fibre channel features of 2012.Under the Virtual SAN Manager (in Hyper-V manager) both vHBA's have a status of "The device or d...

Hi UCS Community!I've heard from Cisco that using a single vNIC for vMotion and Management AND having the "Enable Failover" checkbox checked in UCSM, so UCS manages the redundant links through Fabric A and B is the way to go.And then, for Fibre Chann...

I'm putting new USC blade servers to production. I've discovered that if I set correct time zone for my city ( "Asia/Yekaterinburg (Moscow+02 Urals)" ), the time shown in USC Manager is one hour behind the actual time. It seems that this bug is relat...

Just want to verify communication between UCS servers on same chassis but having active vNICs on different FIs (Diagram attached). I suppose all commuication between server-A & server-B will happen through Layer 2 switch as server-A will generate an ...

My fabric A is primary and fabric B is sub. but when I try to ssh into fabA ip, I get to fabA.when I ssh into fabB ip, I still get to fabA.when I ssh into the cluster ip, it get to fabA.Do I need to failover to fabB before I get ssh into fabB?

Hello!I need...... configuration best practice guide for UCS C460 M2.1. what is the memory configuration of max memory clock?  ex) 16GB pair kit, 32DIMM slots -> Total size ; 512GB, clock speed : 1066Mhz?2. When install of all memory,  what's the mem...

Hi there, I can;t get the CIMC-Express component of the SRE to work. I have the followed the document here to the tee: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/interfaces_modules/services_modules/cimce/1.0/configuration/guide/CIMCe.htmlI have the SRE working ...

any idea how I can enable cdp on a standard vswitch?

Hello, I'm curious if anyone has had success with connecting virtual media from the command line from a Windows server (map to local ISO/connect to CIMC)?  Basically I need to mount an ISO programatically, and CIMC/virtual media is outside of the UCS...

Hi,i'm istalling a new B-230-M2 with a M81KR interface card and after i associate  the service profile the nic1 went down with error code F0207.I tried to reacknowledge the server but it doesn't fix the problem any idea?Solved i forgot to configure t...

Hi all,  I am attempting to boot a host over iSCSI but have run into a brick wall trying to get my host to boot after successfull install of the OS.Without changing the service profile I am able to install and boot VMWare ESX fine.  Windows just does...