Unified Computing System Discussions

Hi expert,I have requirement to upgrade CUCM for my client to CUCM 8.6 and I will use two Cisco UCS C series totally four VM ware for CUCM divide on the two UCS , I’m little bit confuse regarding VMware licensing I need to quote cost effective licens...

Hi,I need to allow a customer access to a Nexus 1000V VSM via command line. On Virtual ASA context firewalls I can do this easily via privileges and local AAA accounts.But I have not found a way this can be done on the 1000V without the use of tacacs...

Hello,I remember having read somewhere that there is no way to grant a user access to ONLY organization X in UCS Manager while restricting the rest of organizations (even READ-ONLY mode) due to the way UCS Manager database is programmed. I'd like to ...

I have a 250 M2 blade with 6 vnics, first 3 on Mez 1 and Next 3 on Mez 2. I get this fault, major in severity,  "Hard Pinning Target missing or mis-configured" for all 6 vnics.When I have just 2 vnics, no issues. It may be a co-incidence but I can re...

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 ...