Unified Computing System Discussions

Hi UCS community,I was hoping that some of you could shed some light on the cable management arm installation.I have it installed correctly, however it doesnt appear to fit the APC netshelter rack very well with the vertical PDU's installed in the re...

Hello Experts I have about 50 datacenters deployed with Cisco UCS All datacenter have the same exec hardware and using the same UUID pools same MACs the only diffrence between them is the IP scheme I want to create a new template or service profile f...

Hi,We have purchased VMWare support from Cisco for our UCS servers. I need to check if i need to download any update fro VMware ;how should i do it? do i have to register on the vmware site or its downloadable from Cisco software downloads.Please let...

I'm trying to figure out what the load balancing algorithm for the 6100 and 6200 FIs for the Northbound connections. I can't find any documentation on how to change it. The Nexus 7000s use an 8-bit hash, making it very easy to do something other than...

I'm a VMware person and have been running it on UCS for a while now.  Works great.  I'm now looking at moving into Hyper-V for a project that I have.  I've been trying to find specifics on regard to Hyper-V and UCS but have been unable to find specif...

This is driving me completely nuts.  Let me start by saying I am new to blade servers and Cisco UCS.  I did take an introduction class, and it seemed straight-forward enough.  I have a chassis with two B200M blades, on which I am trying to configure ...

Is it possible to setup a storage device with a CIFS share on the 6248's through a port defined as an appliance port?  The GUI guide says this:"Appliance ports are only used to connect fabric interconnects to directly attached NFS storage."But what w...

hi, I have some question for you, if you can help me please?how could i have, from an remote network out of my own, the access to a kvm console, when i try to connect to this from another site, i could entry to the ucsm without problems but when i wa...

Folks,          1) In UCS is there a way to find out which ESX server is running on which blade?2) In UCS is there a way to find out which profiles are associated with which Template?

Is it possible to pass a vic1280 vhba through to a vsphere 5 VM via vmdirect path for the purpose of attaching to an FC tape library?Sent from Cisco Technical Support iPad App

We are just starting a XenApp / XenDesktop / VDI project at our company.  I'm very familiar with VMware as that is the hypervisor we primarily use on UCS.  I'll be using XenServer for this project though as the licensing comes with the Citrix licensi...

Hi,I'm looking for any configuration recommendations or best practices for configuring a VNX 5300 unified for direct connect to UCS Fabric Interconnects.The direct connect wil be 10GB on both the file and block side.Are their any guides or recommenda...