unidentified server in slot

[Amr Hafez]

Dear All 

I have a problem with a blade B200M4 to be discovered and identified in the chassis in the attachment (error4)

I tried to re-acknowledge the server or the slot but I cannot and received the error in attachment (error5)

but the B300M3 blade identified and discovered auto.

note: B200M4 didi not have hard disk 

So what is this problem ?

[Manuel Velasco · Accepted solution]

Hi Amr,

Is your UCSM running at least firmware version 2.2(3a)?  If it is not running at least this version your servers won't discover as this is the minimum recommend firmware version for the B200 M4 blade servers.

See UCS 2.2 release notes below:

Table 4 Internal Dependencie

Release Notes for Cisco UCS Software, Release 2.2

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/release/notes/ucs_2_2_rn.html

Please let me know if this helps.

[Amr Hafez]

Thanks Manuel

I tried it and worked perfectly

also I used infra bundle 2.2(3c) and blades bundle 2.2(3d) and no errors happened 

[Walter Dey · Accepted solution]

This remaining error is related to the fact, that you have the global policy: synch firmware enabled. and the default host firmware policy is empty; modify the empty one with e.g. V 2.2..3d.

Why did you choose a newer version for server bundle(2.2.3d)  than for Infra bundle (2.2.3c) ?

In general, Infra server bundle should always be newer or equal to the server bundle. (see Table 2 Mixed Cisco UCS Releases Supported )

[Amr Hafez]

thanks Walter

I'm sorry I used the 2.2(3e) infra and 2.2(3c) blade bundle and updated to 2.2(3d) for blade as in the attached fig.

I used different bundle because it's recommended from Cisco release note as in the attached (to use 2.2(3e) for infra and 2.2(3d) for b-series 

when I decided to  update b-series FW from 2.2(3c) to the recommended 2.2(3d) server 5 could not be able to update the BIOS FW although the update status is ready so I right click on the BIOS line and choose update and check force box then activate and it's working as in pic.

updated FW now shown in the attached fig.