Unified Computing System Discussions

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?

Simple questionWhat good tools for OSX are there for working with vmware on ucs ?Not enough obviously ..Sent from Cisco Technical Support iPad App

We've got two sites each with it's own UCS.Site A - Fully operational - local data centre7 x b200 m2 - Oracle Enterprise Linux RAC 11g w/ RDBMS2 x b230 m1 - vSphere 5Site B - Build in progress - remote data centre7 x b200 m2 - Oracle Enterprise Linux...

Hi all,I have a problem, that interfaces shows as up, but it does not actually work - it doesn't work.When I tried vemcmd show port:LTL   VSM Port  Admin Link  State  PC-LTL  SGID  Vem Port   18     Eth4/2     UP   UP    F/B*      0        vmnic1   4...

Hi, Cisco Gurus:Need your authoritative take on the following: Ethernet and FC is all End-Host Mode.1. If client is using FC Port Channel on all of the FC Uplinks for the 2 Fabric Interconnects with a SINGLE VSAN on each FI, MUST THEY USE SAN PIN GRO...

Hi,I performed an upgrade to 2.0(1t) and ever since the local disks give an inoperable error in UCSM. Downgrading the host firmware to a previous version 2.0(1q) or 1.4(3s) resolves the issue.I've collected tech support bundles with and without the e...

With Marcos Hernandez Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn about FlexPod which is a predesigned, base configuration that is built on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS), Cisco ...

I have two nexus 5548's configured as a vPC peers and two ucs 6120's configure in a cluster.  The 5548's are connected to two catalyst 6500 via trunks that are in a VSS configuration.  My question is, i have the ucs 6120 managment 0 ports connected t...

I have been reading through all the details of migrating to new hardware for the vcenter server with the nexus 1000v.  i wish to avoid doing the vswitch thing.  If I am keeping the same database but just moving to new hardware and possibly new ip add...

We have UCS and Nexus 1000v running in our production. Due to some problem with the vCenter server, we need to re-install the vCenter server.Would like to know what should we do on the Nexus 1000v as re-installing the vCenter will cause the svs conne...

i recently deployed UCS 2.0(1s) and have run into a problem doing SAN boot ESXwhen i power on the blade, i see the connections in my fiber channel switch but dont see any host connections in my EMC VNX SANthe error message i see on the blade is "sele...

Are there guidelines for the number of windows 7 desktops per CPU and/or memory on a B250-M1?

I have a C200 M2 server with BCM5709 ethernet card,  I am trying to find the drivers to load windows server 2008 R2.   I am trying to install to an iSCSI SAN, the LUNS and volumes are all configured as they were just running VMWare,  the iSCSI boot i...