Unified Computing System Discussions

Resolved! SAN Multi-pathing best practices?

Hi,I have a few questions on SAN Multi-pathing using UCS.I will itemized each questions.Since there's no failover option for vHBA, we would need to use the underlying MPIO features of the O/S (e.g. ESX/ESXi)? I believe MPIO for ESX/ESXi is enabled by...

How to boot-up Blade automatically upon power on?

Hi,Is there a way to configure the UCS blades to boot up upon power on (assuming each blade already has a service profile associated)?THanks.

UCS "Protect configuration" feature

I have created a Service Profile with the Local Disk Configuration Policy set to the default value. All went ok until I wanted to associate a different profile, now with RAID1 as the policy for the local disks. Here I got a misconfiguration error. Ap...

UCS Server BIOS update Linux

RHEL 5.5 x64 and UCS C200 M2 server.Trying to do the BIOS update from the OS, and getting the bellow error.# ./iflash32 -ni -u ./C200-BIOS-1-2-1a-0.cap iFlash32 Ver 1.1 Build 3Copyright (C) 2009 Cisco Systems Inc.*ERROR* Unable to find necessary BIOS...

Emulex LPe11002 BIOS BFS

I have one Cisco UCS C200 M2 rack mount server with Qlogic CNA installed. I have removed Qlogic CNA and inserted Emulex LPe11002 HBA, connected the HBA to the fabric, and assigned one LUN with single-path to the UCS server. The installed OS is RHEL5....

Server 2008SP2 raid controller driver for UCS C200M1?

Since Windows 2008 is a couple years old, it doesn't have a built in raid controller driver for UCS C200M1 servers. Windows did not discover the RAID controller in the server, and none of the drivers I've downloaded from Cisco appear to be correct. ...

UCS C-series support for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HBAHP

Hi Team,Do we have a UCS c-series solution to support Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HBAHP or anything like this?Sample is from third party: SC08Ge Host Bus AdapterReference:http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/adapters/sc08ge/index...

UCS C 210M1 is very noisy

Hi AllI have just installed a pair of UCS C210 M1 servers for Unified Communications Manager, however one of the servers is very noisy and does not seem to want to quiet down, the other server is fine, I have checked inside and all fans are running a...

Resolved! "Power button" - what's the meaning of active or standby state for the blades?

Hi,If I want to power down one UCS B-Series Chassis, do i need to put the blades on standby via the "power button"?I noticed there's a power button on each blades and it's orange/amber when there's no service profile association.However, pressing on ...

Resolved! Design question around VSANs

We are leveraging the Nexus 5K for our FC switching to boot our UCS blades. I am wondering what the best design is for the following situation.Active / Active NetApp HA pair.2 FC target ports from each NetApp head in the HA pair to the SAN switches (...

Service profile Motion

Is service profile motion possible between blade with different CNAs type ( for instance between a ablade with Qlogic CNA and another one with Palo VIC)?

N+1 mode with 2 power supplies?

Hi,Can I configure N+1 mode in UCSM with just 2 power supply?Can UCSM take this configuration or will it return an error?Thanks

VN Tag Question

Why does the Cisco VN-tag model require that the interface virtualizer tag VM traffic?Why cant the interface virtualizer track the MAC and IP addresses of the vNICs?Tagging the traffic is even a requirement when a 1000v is used - why? What good is a ...

Resolved! How to recover from a software failure on the 6120 Fabric Interconnect

Hi all,Had a software failure while upgrading the fabric interconnects. Does anyone know the process to recover from a software failure.Ive copied up the kickstart and system images, from the loader prompt ive booted the kickstart image and then load...