Unified Computing System Discussions

We are updating C220 M5 server to Centos 7.5 from RHEL. There are couple of issues.- First we are not seeing the existing RHEL and there is no option available in CIMC to boot from HDD. - Now we mounted the Centos ISO file and used driver disk with l...

we are inserting M5 blade into chassis it gets stuck at the Discovery stage. The new blade comes with new 4.0(4a) firmware, only way to fix this is manually downgrading the FW to 3.2(3x). Is there any way we can downgrade the firmware automatically o...

Good day, We have a few C460 M4s that have an ungodly amount of RAM in them (512 GB).  Booting these servers can take up to 10 minutes while it configures and tests the memory.  Is there a way we could speed that up or are we stuck waiting?   Thank...

Dears attached is the report for the Hyperflex sizer in which the requirement for usable storage is 20 TB and i am getting those but i m surprise from the available core is only 90 hence the i have selected 18 Core  * 2 socket processor = 36 Core  an...

Hello,i have a question about ucs and proxy server. One of our security admins ask me why our ucs fi are trying to reach the internet. He saw a lot of blocked connections in our log files. I did not configure any proxy settings so it should be someth...

We have Fabric A and fabric b  each FI has 2 x 8 Gbps - these are NOT connected via Port-channel  We have concerns that these links may becoming saturated.  How can i verify this from UCS manger? is it do-able or do i need to look at the SAN switchin...

In UCS version 3.2(1d) we have a bug as below, do we have any more info of how to clear the alert, if any. https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvh18287/?referring_site=ss&dtid=osscdc000283

We have purchased and received a pair of Nexus FI's 6332's that need to connect to the UCS-IOM-2208XP on the server side, and uplink to Cat-4500-X's in VSS mode on the LAN side.   My confusion is the challenge or possible incompatibility on the SAN F...

Hi !  I am working on UCS hardware and we are running Redhat 7 over ucs-b200-m3. It was ask me to ensure we got the latest driver for the nic and other components of that UCS. Here I am asking if cisco publish his latest drivers over the redhat repos...

I have the UCS C 220 M5SX with CNA X550-T2 card and from the specs FCOE is supported.  When I boot the system up I am only seeing the iSCSI boot option menu and not FCOE option.   What do I need to do in order to get this card configured with the FCO...

Hi all, we're in the process of replacing much older UCS hardware (6120's serving B440M2's with M81KR adapters) with 6248's serving B200M4's with VIC 1340 adapters in chassis using 2208XP i/o modules.  I'm presenting 10 vNIC's to the servers.   While...

Hi All We are using UCS boot-from-san using the traditional 4 WWPN search order;Primary HBA( VHBA0) , Primary WWPNPrimary HBA( VHBA0) , Secondary WWPNSecondary HBA( VHBA1) , Primary WWPNSecondary HBA( VHBA1) , Secondary WWPN All seems to work well. (...

Hello Guru'sIst Question:Problem is IPs from "ext-mgt-pool " pool is out of stock . Is there any alternative to expand it or create new IP Pool with in Outband or Inband? currently we are using outband.The KVM IP Address has to be from the same subne...