Unified Computing System Discussions

When upgrading a UCS B200 M2 from ESXi 4.1 to 5.0 a warning is provided by the ESXi installer regarding the presence of custom VIBs.  In my case these are Cisco VIBs that I believe were pushed to the host by UCSM when it was added to the hardware VN-...

All,I am using UCS 1.4 and ESXi 4.1 along with vCenter and VM-FEX, VN-LINK hardware, or whatever they are calling it now.  I want to upgrade my vCenter server from 4.1 to 5.0 but I'm afraid I might have network issues during the upgrade as UCS is con...

I've read that only Release 1.2(xx) CIMC and BIOS is supported for UCSM integration.. So that means if I upgraded to Release 1.3(xx) and 1.4(xx) then I cannot integrate my c-series to ucsm?

Hi All,Are there any recommendations/best practises for/against running a mixture of the various blade models in a chassis. This in the context of using it for a VMware ESXi setup.Besides the quantity of full/half width combination to fit in a chassi...

Hello Guys & Girls,I have bought the above server for one of my customers.Together with the server i have ordered a LSI 9261-8i RAID card and 8 Seagate 500GB Hybrid SATA hard disks and 2 extra 4GB DIMMs.I have installed everything and i have configur...

We are looking for an efficient method to obtain a comprehensive text-based server inventory and diagnostics report.We have examined the servers with the HUU and SCU and find the log outputs to be a collection of individual text files.We can concatin...

I just setup a new QoS policy named "N1k-TRUST" in UCS system, applied to the service profile and reboot. Then a warning message saying "Policy reference qosPolicyName 'N1k-TRUST' does not resolve to named policy".Can someone let me know how to fix t...

Hi All,I have eight blades running in two seperate chassis. One of the eight has me concerned. If I click on the server and go to the "Server Details" tab and open up the "Status Details" under status, I have a "Avail State" of unavailable with a red...

With regard to the 2100 FEX module on the UCS....what exactly does it do besides simply act as a mux? Does it have any buffers (ingress and egress)? Does it have any switching intelligence at all?How does it handle the reception of DCB packets (PFC, ...

We had an instance where 4 out of six blades lost connectivity to 1 LUN. For some odd reason, this caused our ESXi hosts to become non-responsive although the VMs stayed up. The solution was to remap the LUN from our fibre storage array (Compellent) ...