Unified Computing System Discussions

We are implementing a new UCS environment comprised of a single 5108 chassis and a pair of 6120XP interconnects and Nexus 5K.The chassis IOMs have four twinax each to the interconnects and I had not set the discovery poilicy beofre powering up the ch...

I have been following the upgrade Guide within 2.0. everything went smooth until I started on the FIs. I activated the FI-B first, then I set FI-B as the lead. Since then I have not been able to log into UCSM GUI. The virtual IP is not responding. FI...

Hi all, have been trying to get this to work and I'm running into a wall.   This is a UCSB 5108 with 2 x 6248 FI's and 2 x 2208 FEX.  Very basic:6248UP ----- 3750G3750 port config:c3750G-DMZ#sh run int g1/0/11Building configuration... Current configu...

Hi GuysBit of a stupid question here. im experiencing very strange behaviour with some of my blades. I have 4 UCS b250 M2 blades. with 6248 FI's. I have configure 4 vNIC's on each blade and configure 2 of vNIC's for FI-A and other 2 for the FI-B. Onc...

Don't ask how it happened..   but does anybody know of the technical implications of a a Gold PSU being mixed with 3 platinum PSU's in a 5108 chassis. We're going to remediate it, but the nominal voltages, input VA and BTU output all seem the same of...

I just got an RMA C200 M2 chassis. The CIMC and BIOS version is only v1.1 and I have to upgrade it all the way to v1.4.For upgrade from v1.1 to v1.2, I will use the TFTP method stated here.http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/cl...

Is it possible to create both a Port Channel and Trunk on a Cisco MDS 9148? Yes correct? Or can I only trunk between the 2 MDS switches and not the MDS to Fabric Interconnect?These FC links would be connected to a 2248XP Fabric Interconnect carrying ...

I'm wondering if anyone has seen anything like this before, after a new installation completed today on 2.0(3a) I attempted to take a full XML backup. UCSM threw up an error (I'll get a screenshot next week if I can) about unexpected end of xml.What ...

Hi Everyone,I searched the forums before posting and didnt see anyone asking a similar question.  I've installed ESXi 5.0 Update 1 on two new UCS C210 M2 servers.  I used the iso that you can readily download on VMWare.com.  I did notice though that ...

Any reasons why when using the Configure VMware Integration wizard the port profiles/DVS was not created in vCenter?The plugin is ok and I was following the doc from Cisco:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/vm_fex/vmware/gui/con...

Hi All,I'd like to know the options for building UC machines ahead of deploying them on a production UCS platform. Since these machines are 'virtual' one should be able to convert and/or import them as needed. What I'd like to do is build several mac...