Unified Computing System Discussions

I read a very good article on TJs Thoughts regarding how UCS achieves 80Gb per Blade. Within this blog TJ has a diagram (see attached) of the internal 10Gb-KR connectivity between the various IOMs, through the backplane and finally to the mLOM and me...

hi,can someone help me verify if it is possible to connect an FCoE capable SAN storage to a Nexus 5000 FCoE port? thanks!

I have ESXi 4.1 installed on B200 M2 blades in UCS.  I can ping the IPs of the ESXi hosts from my computer and ping my computer from the ESXi hosts.  I can't connect to any of the ESXi hosts from my computer with the vSphere client.  I cannot even ge...

We are considering purchasing a VBlock.We have heard the cabling is simplified.  How many cables are connected to each bladeDoes each blade have a power cable, or does it get its power directly from the chassisCan it get its 10GB from the Chassis

Helloo All,One of our uplink ethernet FI-6120  connected to J*N*R switch..1. when we set the J*N*R switch port to trunk mode, the uplink ethernet always down,(we test the connection using ping) how to solved this ? or any basic information?2. right n...

Is it possible to power off the UCS if the temperature sensor reading exceeds a certain value?Can I power off the UCS remotely?

A converged10G  FCoE link carries data and storage traffic. By default,  how is that 10G link divided between the two types of traffic? What are the percentages? I believe the Nexus has a default configuration for PFC and ETS that define the division...

In reviewing the documentation it appears that within the same subnet that the following would occurSwitch mode:  A packet from chassis A to Chassis B would take 1 hop.  It is only 1 hop instead of 2 because both Chassis are connected to both Fabric ...

Hi, I'm trying to automate some CIMC CLI commands to show the inventory of C-Series servers, i.e. show CPU, show hdd, etc. Typically I use Putty to SSH to the CIMC and run each command manually. I'd like to automate this process and save the results ...

Hi allI have a server cisco UCS C210 M2 would like to know two things.1 - You need to register the product (the server) with the login and password on cisco website? If so I can tell how?2 - I want to update the driver and firmware from cisco website...

Anybody  please help me.I'm already configure UCS manager authentication with LDAP by following this guide https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-14642everything OK but in the last step i can't issue command test aaa server ldap the more detail is ...