Unified Computing System Discussions

When I boot ESX 4 with the latest up on our UCS B class blades I get a:"Failed to load iommu driver" and when it finally finishes booting on the first screen I have message in red:cpu1 :4106)Mod: 2077: Initialization for vtd failed with -1"I already ...

I am trying to install windows 2008 R2 on a B200 to boot from SAN. I have an M81KR (Palo) mezz card. I have tried using the drivers from cco for windows, I think 1.1.1j. I get the driver installed during the windows install and I can see my storage/L...

What is the best practice for configuring ports on the Fabric that aren't going to be used?  Our clustered UCS with 2 fabrics always have the yellow outline on the fabric nodes in UCSM because we have 8 ports on the expansion modules but only one por...

I have installed Windows 2008 R2 on a blade in a boot from SAN configuration. I loaded the Cisco Palo FCOE drivers during the install and it went through without a hitch.After the install the reboots are painfully slow, like 15 minutes. After boot up...

Hi all,I'm trying to get some stats on the 6120 through SNMP can't seem to find what I need which is cpu utilization, memory utilization, and throughput on both ethernet and fibre channel ports.  Is this something that I should be able to get through...

I have started to look at the UCS blade server range this morning as we may need to work with this kit in an upcoming project.From what I can see, HBA support is quite limited. I have an application that requires a Dialogic ISDN30 card in one of my s...

I just went through the process of trying to update our UCS from 1.1 to 1.2 via these 2 documents:http://www.ciscosystems.sc/en/US/products/ps10281/products_configuration_example09186a0080af310f.shtmlhttp://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/...

Are there any guides for a 2-node clustered UCS configuration?  I was able to find a guide like this: https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-6158 as well as some other guides on the "Tips and Examples" section but I can't seem to find one that dril...

Can use SFP-H10GB-CU3M OR SFP-H10GB-CU5M to connect 6120XP to Cat6K Switch?

Hi everyone, I have dual 6120 interconnects, each of which have two uplink ports. I also have two Catalyst 4900M switches to uplink to. So I plan to configure both 802.1q and 802.3ad on each of the 6120 uplink pairs. My question relates to the physic...

I have enabled IPMI on the UCS so that vCenter can power down/up the blades based on performance needs.It works great.  The blades get powered off when the utilization is low and then powered on when the utiltization increases.My only issue is the ti...

Hi to all,Is it possible for a RedHat 5.4 installed on a UCS blade to fence with a IPMI (BMC) port of another blade ?We created and applied a IPMI profile to the target (controlled) blade. We also created and activated a Serial over Lan policy on tha...

Hi,i installed ESXi4 on UCS B200M1 Blade, after ip address Configuration is done isaw:"Download tools to manage this host fromhttp://10.10.10.20/ (static)"But i can't ping this Ip Address and i can't reach it by http.I use the same ip address as KVM ...

I'm currently following this guide: http://www.ciscosystems.sc/en/US/products/ps10281/products_configuration_example09186a0080ae0f24.shtml to set up syslog for UCS but when I navigate to the node, I don't see the syslog option.  Anyone know why?  Tha...