Unified Computing System Discussions

Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn how to configure and troubleshoot UCS in various environments with Cisco expert Stephen McCabe. Stephen is a customer support engineer in Cisco’s Adva...

Hi,I want to capture events of Cisco Unified Computing System Manager v1.4 thourgh my java code. but it got notification when i restart emulator.(All notificaton in one response) I can see events are logeed into the log file but java code get respon...

hi      I am using palo on a blade B200 server, and want to enable vn-link in hardware, but when it moved to "add host to vDS" in vcenter, it showed a error of "vDS operation failed on host hostnamexxxx, An error occurred during host configuration. g...

Hi experts,I have a doubt on chassis discovery policy,i have 1 chassis & 2 fabric interconnects, and chassis discovery policy is configured for four links. Then if 1 disconnect 1 cable between both FI and chassis then complete connecstion between cha...

Hi:Is there any recommendation with regard to the connectivity of NetApp FAS3140 Storage Processor Ports to a SAN Switch in a UCS environment?Assuming 2 Fabric Interconnects, 2 SAN Switches like Nexus 5010 and 1 NetApp FAS3140 FilerExample:----------...

Hi:Can some experts please help to clarify as I have been reading lot of conflicting information from various sources?Q1. Is NetApp FAS3140A an Active-Passive Controller Storage Array? Some told me that it is an Active-Passive and others told me othe...

Hi, I am building UCS system UC applications. I have two 5108 chassis with 3 B200 M2 blade in each Chassis. I completed configuration and want to do 'Production Readiness Test’ on UCS. When power down Fabric Interconnect-A (Primary), all my ESX hosts...

I'm trying to collect some QoS from our fabric interconnects and bring them into our enterprise monitoring solution.  One of the things I would like to collect information on is the Bytest Tx & Rx for the fiber channel uplink ports.  I think these ar...

We are trying to setup a C210 M2 and we are finding that with non-ECC RAM installed the fans run at around 5600 RPM.  If we pull that RAM out and replace with ECC (with temp sensors), then the fans run normally - around 2200 RPM.  The docs state that...

Looking for documentation that details the configuration steps needed to configure Port Channels and Trunking on a Cisco Catalyst 4500 and other Catalyst models to support the UCS 6100 Ethernet Uplinks. I have found all kinds of documents on creating...

Hello,Little question: in a UCS environment, I want to recable a FEX of a chassis which is already in production. What are the exact steps? Is it or is it not disruptive?Please, answer for all possible cases, when going from 4 cables to 2 cables and ...

Im wondering if someone can clear up one thing for me….What exactly does a UCS FEX do besides aggregate the server traffic  and push it up to the Fabric Interconnects? What I am wondering is what  functionality/technology does it need to possess to d...