Unified Computing System Discussions

Hello,This will be our first deployment using UCS 2.x with 5108/B200/6248UP/M81KR Cisco hardware with an EMC VNX5100 directly connected to the Interconnects.I was wondering if anyone had a cheat sheet/cookbook for these boot from SAN architectures? T...

Hi, What is the difference between the CIMC and KVM?   I believe they are one each per blade in the UCS -- are the same thing in the newest release, and if not, it appears that they both need to be in the same subnet as the Fabric InterconnectThanks!...

Hi All,We currently have a UCS B chassis with 4 blades & 4 uplinks to the FI 6124 (2 from each FEX). We are now looking to populate the chassis with 4 additional blades & was wondering if there is a best practise/guidance document on how many uplinks...

When trying to connect a Intel ET Quad-Port ethernet adapter (located in a C210 M2) to the network, I continue to lose connectivity to the network from the server. This is happening on 2 different servers with the same exact hardware specs. It almo...

So I am currently bringing up a new UCS cluster and having connectivity issues after the initial configuration. These are 6120s cabled to a Nexus 7k. All signs on the Fabric Interconnects look good and the group managing the Nexus 7k say it is config...

Hi,we are using a single link to connect to the core switches, this link will be carrying all control, management and data traffic.VEM physical uplinks will also be configured as trunk.Can gre tunnel for VSM - VEM communication in L3 mode be made on ...

Hi all,I have a UCS C200 with 2 NIC. I was installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on it. The windows is successfully installed, i can login to windows. But after a couple seconds, the server shutdown itself. It was unpredicted shutdown and it was always h...

Well, I've been working on this off and on for a few months (yikes) now, and we are still using local authentication for UCS rather than tacacs. I am attaching a few screenshots of how things are set up that I believe encomasses everything, but am mo...

If anyone has gotten the disk perfomance between the bare-metal windows server and an XIV working would you kindly share how?Thanks,Tom

Hello,I am very familiar with Catalyst switches but new to nexus switching.We have a 7k up and running. 5k and 2k are on order. Once they arrive, how do I join/extend all 3 switches?How does a 5k or 2k know which fabric or 7k to join?