Unified Computing System Discussions

Let's say we have an FCoE pass-through switch sitting between an  Enode's CNA and the FCoE port of an FCF.Although the FCoE pass through  switch is invisible to the FC stacks on both ends, its existence does  impact the manner in which the FC stack o...

Looking at the requirements of the Nexus 1000V as requiring VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus Version 4.0 or later.This seems like a steep cost for some relatively small sites to take advantage of the technology.Does anyone know if there are plans to ea...

I have 2 brand new UCS C210 M1 servers. Both are running the follow:BIOS - C200.1.2.2f.0 - updated from 1.2.1bCIMC - 1.2(2d)LOM - 1.4.3Broadcom Nic - 5.0.6ESXi - 4.0 U1Intel driver - 1.3.19.12.1Broadcom driver - 2.0.7cServers are connected to the net...

Imagine that I need to validate the integrity of the firmware running on the UCS. I see how I can get a list of versions of running firmware. I also see that I can transfer files from the UCS via copy. What I don't see is how I can connect those two ...

Is it possible to activate mschap2 on the ucs system?I only found this:ucs-A# connect nxosucs-A(nxos)# show aaa authentication login mschapv2MSCHAP V2 is disabledBut i can't figure out how to enable it.

Can the 1000v be deployed in a non-Cisco networking environment? lets say we have HP blades and a Juniper ToR switch.With  the UCS system, the 1000v CLI is accessed via UCS Manager ( I think Im  right about that). The UCS manager resides on the 6100s...

If you have 4 5108 Chassis can you have 1 chassis with 4 links per fex and 3 with 2 links?  I would imagine the answer to that is no, as the policy is system wide.  Personally I really wanted the policy to be more like MLPP and be a minimum set of li...

Hello,Quick question regarding VSAN trunking. I have 2 6120 Fabric Interconnects and 2 MDS 9148's. Fabric-A is connected to MDS-1 and Fabric-B is connected to MDS-2 (4 4Gb links).I have created 3 VSAN's on the MDS's and have configured the ports conn...

Trying to PIN all traffic from NetApp filer to a specific port channel uplink and having no success.NetApp Filer is direct-connected to 6120 (appliance port mode).  There are 2 northbound port channel uplinks (Po1 & Po2) from 6120 to LAN.  I have cre...

I posted this on the VMWare Community forum, and they were no help... so I am posting here.Good Morning,I come from previous VMWare/ESX experience, and that  experience has always been with ESX hosts on stand-alone servers.   I am  getting ready to d...