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Resolved! UCS 6248 licensing

UCS 6248UP LicensingWill ports configured as Fiber Channel also consume a port license?I think this is still to answerI have been testing different configurations with netformx and it seems that ports configured as FC do not consume licenses. Is tha...

6120 Fabric Interconnect

Is it possible to connect both ethernet switch and FC switch from 6120 Fabric Interconnect using the 8 port extended module?

Unable to boot the right side of UCS blades (B200M2)

This is funny but I have't figure out what is the problem.I have the SAN pinning setup as follows:A1 uses fc0 on 6120XP fabric A A2 uses fc1 on 6120XP fabric A B1 uses fc0 on 6120XP fabric BB2 uses fc1 on 6120XP fabric BAll the left side blades (slot...

UCS and SNMP - who's polling?

Hi!We are using SNMP on UCS and our monitoring works fine. The only "annoying" thing is that about every 20 min there's an Authentication Error message in the logs on both 6120's:Trap received from xxFIPRUCS-A[10.137.0.xx] : SNMPv2-MIB::authenticati...

Cannot create 110 vlans per vnic usiing the XML API

In a Service Profile, I have 2 vnics and both has 110 vlans, The HTTPS request to the UCS fails but when I cut it down to 60 it works. I have seen this working (110) on some UCS versions and fail on the same version on a different UCS. It is not a ve...

Downgrading Emulex HBA firware on C 200 series servers

Currently all of our Emelux HBA firware version 2.82A4 onto all of C 200 series server. After installing Hitachi multi pathing software (HDLM) windows 2003 servers ended up with blue screen. Now Hitachi is saying that current HBA version is not suppo...

Resolved! ESXi license install on UCS B200M2 fail

I tried to keyed in the VMware license into ESXi 4.1 from vSphere client and all the 16 keys were always prompted failed with message "not valid on this product.I installed using the Cisco ISO image "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.1.0-260247_Cisco.iso" o...

CIMC NIC Teaming

I know this is a stupid question. But I'm relativly new to the UCS servers. I have a C210 and set the CIMC NIC to active/active. I put the same NICs in a team in VMWare as well. the load-balancing hash is set to src-mac on both the switch and VMWare....

C260 M2 Server Availability

Does anyone know the release date for ordering the C260 M2 server?

UCS and Vsphere 5

Hi all.I was wondering if anyone could inform me of how ready the UCS product is for ESXi 5.0 and the new Vsphere 5.0 family of products?I have recently purchased a pair of 6120XP fabric interconnects and a 5108 blade chassis which we are connecting ...

CIM Providers for C210 and ESXi

Hi,are CIM Providers for ESXi for the C210 Series availible?Michael

Microsft SCOM

Hi, Anyone has any experience with Microsoft SCOM monitoring Cisco UCS? I want to tfind out if all UCS alerts from chassis, fabric interconnect etc. can be forwarded to SCOM.Rdgs,Leslie

Resolved! installing 2nd power supply in C210 M1 - downtime needed ?

I have several UCS C210 M1 servers that have just one power supply, I need to install a second one. Will I need to shut down the servers to install the second power supply?I found details on installing them here...http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/un...

Resolved! UCS Power Question

Hi,Just a quick one to double check I have this right....I have a UCS chassis with 2 x B200 servers & 2 x 2500W power supplies. Also will be running firmware 1.4.3m1. When using only 2 PSUs do they have to be in particular slots? i.e 1&3 2. What woul...