Unified Computing System Discussions

So we were "gifted" a UCS C250 M2 server.  Very nice of our Cisco Rep, who has been very good to us.The server just got RMA'd due to a motherboard issue diagnosed by a remote TAC engineer.How often does this happen?During our TAC case, the first engi...

If I wanted to shuffle some blades around from Chassis to Chassis in the same domain, but leave the server in-tact IE don't reprovision, format drives, etc.. simply a shutdown/move/power-up scenario. I've though through a few scenarios but I'm not su...

Hello all & greetings. Is it correct that if I have a fully configured N7K / N5K without the FCoE and NPV features enabled and subsequently ENABLE both these 2 feaatures, I will lose all configurations? Is that NX-OS version dependent? Any work aroun...

When looking at the different options for downloading ESXi, I see Dell, HP, etc. Is there a version that we should use for UCS? Thinking we are going to start with 4.1. Thanks!Craig

Guys,I have an issue with the Nexus 1000v, basically the trunk ports on the ESXi hosts stop inheriting from the main DATA-UP link port profile, which means that not all VLANS get presented down that given trunk port, its like it gets completey out of...

Do Appliance Ports Require End Host Mode?We are running switch mode, and wondering if I have to change to End Host Mode for Appliance Ports?Thanks!Craig

Hi everybody:I'm looking for a tech paper that state the relationship between the PSU and Blades in a 5108 chassisI want to resolve design questions like:How many PSU I need if I have only 3 half size blades and I want redundancy N+1?Or how many PSU ...

Hi folks,Kind of seeing something that is really strange.  I have built out a service profile and bound my vNICs to vNics template.  On vNic template, I only have a single VLAN assign to it and the service profile has the same vlan.  I also have  mul...

Hi all,I am trying to setup a raid configuration on my c210 M2,i am not using the onboard raid controllerd because i am using SAS Drive's.In my c210 there is a Mezzanine card, the labal say's: S98 SAS: 000 298D51The manufactur is ARM made in korea.No...