I know this question is ancient but perhaps answering this here will help someone else in the future.
When using ERSPAN, you do NOT need to implement PPTP. PPTP is outdated and insecure at the present time. ERSPAN uses a GRE tunnel between source and destination to pass the mirrored/SPAN'd traffic. The GRE tunnel is able to "pierce" the UCS Fabric Interconnects and hit a server (physical or virtual) that connects to the UCS FIs. This is the only supported type of SPAN that can be used with UCS FIs. SPAN and RSPAN rely on a destination switch, and the mirrored frames would never be passed through the FIs down to the UCS servers. ERSPAN works by creating a tunnel to the server's IP address, and thus will traverse the UCS FIs successfully.
The only other requirement is that your server destination has the ability to decapsulate the GRE packets. This can be accomplished fairly easily using any Linux server flavor (e.g. Security Onion, RHEL, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.) with native FOSS applications available to Linux. Also, I believe the Wireshark application can act as a GRE endpoint and will natively decapsulate and capture the traffic from the ERSPAN. There may be other tools as well, but I'm not familiar with them.
Here's an article to get you started: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/200521-Configure-a-Virtual-Machine-on-a-UCS-Bla.html
It's a bit dated but still applicable.
Hope this helps someone in the future.
William
