Blades are failing to discover

[ledward2541]

Hi everyone,

I purchased two new B200-M3 blades and they are failing to discover when I'm downgrading the firmware on them. It came with a 3.1(1e) package and I'm trying to downgrade to my infrastructure at 2.1(1a).

[Qiese Dides]

Hey Ledward,

According to the following doc, there is a minimum requirements for B200 M3 blade Running Intel E5-2600 Series CPUs.

 http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/hw/CPU/IVB/install/IVB-B.html#97180

Are you running B200-M3 with 2 CPU's if that is the case then you will need a firmware infrastructure of at least 2.1(3a) for them to be recognizable.

Please let me know if this fixes your issue.

[Walter Dey]

Hi

I'm shocked to see that you are still running 2.1.1a, released November 16th 2012 !!!

Do you have any reason not to upgrade ?

Best practise is to update UCS firmware at least once per year. The longer you wait, the more trouble you will have !

According to the 2.1.1a release notes:

B200 M1, M2, and M3

2.0(5f)

2.1(3j)

minimum / recommended release.