08-25-2012 01:55 PM - edited 03-01-2019 10:35 AM
Hi everybody,
I am a network engineer and rather a newbe on system…
I have just installed a w2k8R2 64bit on a B200M3 in our new UCS architecture (local storage; W2k8 as bare metal OS)
3 questions:
Many thanks in advance.
Nicolas.
08-26-2012 12:50 AM
Hello Nicolas,
You are on the right track. Mount the ucs-bxxx-drivers.2.0.3b.iso image via vmedia and browse it from Windows OS.
1) Intel Chipset
2) FNIC ( HBA )
3) ENIC ( Network )
Currently, there is no one-click option to install necessary drivers based on server model. The following link helps you to navigate the ISO folder
If you have many such installations to do, then you might want to create custom W2K8 image with necessary drivers built into it.
2) VLAN tagging
I assume you have single vNIC that allows 3 VLANs and want the OS to tag the traffic. I do not see VLAN tagging in ENIC driver properties. I will find more information on it.
If not, you can create three nics and UCS vNIC will tag the traffic as defined in the service profile.
3) HBA failover is handled by Multipath failover driver in OS( MPIO ) . Depending upon the storage array, you can install appropriate MPIO driver.
HTH
Padma
08-26-2012 11:35 PM
Hello padramas,
Many thanks for your reply.
I real appreciate if you can have more information about VLAN tagging in ENIC driver properties
Many thank in advance.
Nicolas.
08-27-2012 12:18 AM
Hello Nicolas,
Can you please share your use case for having multiple VLANs on single NIC ?
Padma
08-28-2012 06:11 AM
Nicolas,
M81KR driver was not designed to support VLAN tags as we did not use case for it.
Please share the your design requirements so that we can better understand it.
Padma
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