Unified Computing System (UCS)

Changing boot from legacy to uefi

Hello together,i try to change the boot order from legacy to uefi on a vmware esxi that is booting from SAN.First try, just change the boot order to uefi. Server boots into biosSecond try, change th uefi boot parameter to the following valueBoot Load...

UCS CIMC web cannot be opened

Hi All, We have a Be6k M6 server can be pinged, but the CIMC web cannot be opened, it always loading the webpage. SSH login will get stuck after entering the account password, we also have another server with the same model and firmware that can op...

Will UCS-6454 in Switch Mode Support VPCs

I am working a project that we are implimenting new 6454 FI's. The current environment has all the NFS storage connected to a stack of Cisco 5k's using VPC's for the LAGs. The FI's are connecting to a Cisco N9508. Will the 6454 support VPC's in switc...

System Halted after Cisco UCS C225 M6 Upgrade

Hello all, Recently we upgrade our UCS C225 M6 firmware from shipped Release 4.3(4.242038) to Release 4.3(5.250030) by using HUU under this guidance from Cisco https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/lomug/4-3/b_cisco-hos...

UCS C220 M5 seemingly high idle consumption

I recently upgraded from a C220 M4 running a E5 2620 v4 to a C220 M5 running a Xeon Gold 6134. I migrated the existing Proxmox installation and its existing VMs with it. Load is relatively minimal most times, as it is running network services and a...

UCS C220 M5 - adding memory

Currently the server has a total of 256GB, with 8x 32GB DIMMs, part number 36ASF4G72PZ-2G9E2 Based on the ordering guide spec sheet, these should have been LRDIMMs, but this part number seems to be an RDIMM. Trying to double the memory with the same ...

Check power availability failure after upgrading blade to 4.3.5a

I have a UCS 5108 chassis with eight B200 M5's, I upgraded the chassis manager from 4.3.4a to 4.3.5a at Christmas time but when upgrading a blade from 4.2.1f to 4.3.5a this week it failed at the following step:Associate Check Power Availability - Che...

Virtual Machine on UCS Blade Server as SPAN Destination without ERSPAN

HelloIs it possible to receive SPAN traffic on a Sniffer VM on UCS without using ERSPAN ?Our traffic volume is very high and we dont want to use additonal GRE overhead with ERSPAN.We are using UCS-X (UCSM Mode), FI 6454.Requirement is similar to what...

Bug: StorageFPIN on ESXi 8.0 U2 and newer (FIXED)

What is this: Stability issue introduced by new feature in ESXi 8.0 U2, FPIN (Fabric Performance Impact Notifications)Broadcom KB article 380321: Temporary/transient storage path loss on ESXi 8.0 could result in paths not coming back when using Cisco...

Need to update ESXi on Cisco UCS C240 with VMSA-2025-0004

We have 2 ESXi servers running ESXI 7.0.3 and need to apply VMSA-2025-0004 . It's been a while since I updated ESXi and I was wondering if there are Cisco OEM images that are required to support the hardware? I have updated ESXi in the past on Cisco ...

SFF HDD not seen on UCSC-C220-M5SX

Hi there, I want to use a 1.2TB SFF front-facing disk on a Cisco UCSC-C220-M5SX without RAID. The server has a UCSC-SATAIN-220M5 interposer card connecting A1 and A2 to the front plane. The disk is inserted in slot 1, and its LED lights up green. How...

Does UCSM for B-series or the CIMC for C-series support MS Entra ID

Does UCSM for B-series or the CIMC for C-series support MS Entra ID for single sign on?

CIMC Default password not working

Hi All, I have a brand new Cisco 4351 Router installed with UCS-E140S module. I configured ucse interface and it's reachable. However I am not able to login to CIMC using default username and passoword. I tried these two combinations. 1) Username...

C240 M3 Fan Speed

I recently got my hands on a c240 m3 server and the fans persist at 17K RPM. I have CIMC version 3.0(4o) and bios version 3.0.4e.0. The only PCIe card I have in it is an LSI Megaraid 9271-8i with firmware version: 3.400.05-3175. as far as I know ever...

From UCS Manager to Intersight

Hi guys.I have an Intersight portal and want to start managing a POD with UCS-X. However, when I add the devices to Intersight, I can not see all the related config, templates, service profiles, VLANs, etc.I read about a tool for this kind of migrati...