Unified Computing System Discussions

In our data center we are in the process of transitioning one of our existing racks from 110V/3PH power to 208V/3PH power for a future UCS installation.  Currently, there is 110V equipment running within the rack.  Before that equipment is decomissio...

I saw in C-Series that it has an onboard two 1Gigabyte built in, also an expansion slot can be added with two 10Gigabyte to it,... Aside from the fact that they are different in capacity (one is 1G, other is 10G), how they are different from each oth...

The 10GE ports are encryption capable. Is there a use case for this available? Has anyone enabled this functionality yet?

Trying to install Windows 2003 Server on a UCS C200 M1, tried using the server utility but that doesn't seem to work.  Installed directly from Windows ISO but I need to install the RAID drivers during install but can't seem to find the .img file to l...

Hi,I am concerned about how traffic is distributed when we use static and dynamic pinning. Let's say, I have one chassis connected to only one FI. Two ports 1/1, 1/2 (etherchannel) go to one LAN switch, and next two ports 1/3, 1/4 (etherchannel) go t...

I just want to ask regarding taking the DCUCI exam. In cisco site I can see that the prerequisite before I become certified in 642-984 are the following1 ) VCP3 or VCP42 ) ICSNS/DCNIS or     DCUCI Qualifier Exam (642-979)Is this correct or I can take...

I just want to know how to manage this c200 rack version of UCS? I have only experience the B-series and familiarize myself with it's needed hardware/software connections like- FI- I/O Modules- vmware esxi, vcenter, vsphereSo is this c200 rackmount s...

Hello alltogether,we have a problem with installation of SLES11 SP1. The local harddisk is recognized as /dev/sdc. Normally it should be recognized as /dev/sda.Now sda and sdb is the virtual CDROM and floppy drive. How to manipulate the order of the ...

Hello,I am having a strange issue with a new UCS environment that we just brought online. One of the four UCS chassis had an issue with its firmware upgrade, specifically the IO module. All of the other componants on all of the other UCS chassis upgr...

As we move more and more of our services to VMWare, we keep adding 2RU servers and I'm wondering at what point it would make more sense for us to move to a chassis/blade UCS system.  The key issue being a small organization is we lack the capital to ...

NetApp's Interoperability Matrix Tool (IMT) does not show direct attach support yet with UCS 1.4(1i) for FC or FCoE.Presumably it will be supported. Any idea how long that'll take?-Craig