Unified Computing System Discussions

Resolved! SR-IOV

Quick question(s) - I have XenServer 5.6 SP2 installed on B200 and B250 blades with the Palo card and want to enable SR-IOV for my Provisioning servers to bypass Dom0/Hypervisor for network traffic.1)Does the Palo card support SR-IOV? I can't seem t...

Cisco UCS VIC M81KR 802.3ad support

Dear all,I looking in the data sheet of the virtual interface card at the link below.http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10280/data_sheet_c78-525049.htmlCould you assist me in finding out is the Cisco UCS M81KR supports IEEE 802.3ad ...

Changing Chassis Number

I'm having problems changing the ordering of the Chassis that the Fabric Interconnectsare acknowledging.We have 2 Fabric Interconnects configured as a cluster and 2 Chassis. I've rackmounted the 2 chassis one on top of another so I wanted the top ch...

Resolved! VMware Boot From SAN

I understand the concept of BFS, but how do you get the image on the SAN to start with? Can someone point me to the best resource for configuring Boot from SAN.

Resolved! How to change svs connection remote ip address - vCenter was reloctated

We just finished relocating our vCenter from one subnet to another, the IP address changed and now we can't add any vmware port groups in the vNetwork Distributed Switch.When we tried to add the port-profile the warning was "Warning: Operation succee...

Resolved! UCS 5108 - Blade Placement

We have currently installed two B200 M2 blades side by side (slot 1 and 2) into each of our 5108 chassis. I have since been told they must be placed into the slots in a particular order to utilise the two Interconnect uplinks currently connected. I c...

How to set user privileges for each server

Hi,I'm sorry if this topic was previously discussed.We have several users for accessing to UCS, but every users can access to every servers.We want to setup a user who can only access to dedicated servers, and this users cannot do anything on other s...

Clearing faults in UCS

Hello,I'm trying to clear some persistent faults within UCS and have a few that have me stumped. The UCS Faults and Error Messages Guide does not provide any details on how these faults can be cleared.After removing the 1.1(1j) firmware update packag...

Best Practises for UCS Monitoring

Hi,What are the current methods that have been followed to monitor UCS.I know there are third party agents/modules such as SCOM Management Pack etc.Howeer, are there any best practises / suggestions for using SNMP as a primary protocol for monitoring...

NetApp direct connect to UCS best practices

Folks,I have installed many FlexPods this year but all involved either Nexus 5Ks or 7Ks with vPC. This protects the NFS LUN connections from both network outages or UCSM FIM outages. What is not clear to me is the best practice on connecting a NetApp...

Adding additional vnics to Service Profile post install of ESX

I have a service profile with 2 vnics and ESX is installed. VMs are up and running. When I add 2 more vnics, the order on vmnics changes even for the ones that is created earlier. So to get around this we are having to have ESX reinstalled so that vm...

ucs chassis qos support

I bought a UCS chassis with two blades that are 'qualified' for Cisco Voice products (cm, ccx, etc).... i decided to not buy the $20,000 worth of VMWARE enterprise pro licenses and the v1000 switch... since the ROI is simply not there (I'd ra...

Resolved! How do I see power draw per chassis/UCS?

How do I see power draw per chassis in the UCSM?Also is there a way to see a SUM of that per UCS?Thanks!Craig

CDP not working in vCenter with hardware VN-Link

I have configured hardware VN-Link and created a vDistributed Switch through UCSM. I created a network control policy enabling CDP and applied it to the static vNICs in my ESXi service profiles. The static vNICs were used as the uplinks when I adde...

Enabling maintenance mode for UCS blade server

<<Original post by Marcel . Answered by Robert. Moving from document section to discussion>>Hi Folks,just one simple question:- Is it possible to enable a "maintenance mode" for a dedicated server for a short period of time, so that alerts or snmp-t...