Unified Computing System Discussions

Nexus5020 have two kind of power option:N5K-PAC-1200WN5K-PAC-750WCould you please advise what's the benefits to use N5K-PAC-1200W rather than N5K-PAC-750W?Thank you very much!

I've been performing failover testing with our UCS and can't quite figure out how I can repair a RAID-1 configuration for the blades' local storage.  What I did was pull one of the SAS drives out of a the blade then reinserted it.  The LED is lit up ...

Can anyone share your experience on doing this?

Has anyone connected a modem to a UCS for remote support?  If so how is is this done or is there documentation available on theSupport website?Thanks in advance... and GO RED SOX

Hi,I'm trying to install ESX (i've also tried ESXi) on a C200 M1 using the onboard nic. However both ESX and ESXi state that a compatable network adaptor cannot be found.Has anyone tried to install ESX on a C200 M1 using the onboard nics?Thanks.

Hi, I have multiple FC links from one FI to a MDS switch, I can only see WWPN in one of the FC ports in the MDS switch even if I have multiple FC links connected. This essentially means that only one FC link will be utilized at any one time. We worka...

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...