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Is Power Capacity Initially Allocated by the Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis?

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AMA - Introduction to Cisco Intersight Managed Mode and UCS X-Series

Ask Me Anything Event Welcome to the Cisco Community Ask Me Anything conversation. Are you already familiar with the new Cisco UCS solutions and the Cisco Intersight™ infrastructure management platform? The Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service is...

UCS C240 M4 - RAID virtual disks creation for 7.6TB SSD

Hi UC experts,I have a UCS C240 M4 server and I tried to create RAID virtual drive from Unused Physical disks (7.6TB SSD x 4).I discovered two questions / issues:1) I couldn't create RAID-10 / RAID-50 / RAID-60 as gray of 'Create Virtual Drive' butto...

get cimc ip for all blades

I need to get all the cimc ips currently in use in the mgmt ext pool. any idea how to do this with powertool?

Accessing UCS KVM Direct with NAT IP

I could access KVM NAT IP in the past when downloading kvm.zip from UCSM 2.x (java based) but now with UCSM 4.x I cannot. When I browse using KVM direct WEB page, it failed when using NAT IP. Is there any workaround or solution to this? thank you

errors in the discover the server UCS B440 M2

I have the following errors in the discover the server UCS B440 M2 in the chasis UCS 5180 the firmware is 2.1(1f) FSM FSM Status: In ProgressDescription:Current FSM Name: DiscoverCompleted at:Progress Status: 9%Remote Invocation Result: End Point Pro...

S3260 SIOC 40G to 10G VNIC configuration

I have a s3260 storage server with UCSC-C3260-SIOC and am connecting it to my router via a QSFP-4SFP10G-CU3M (40g to 4 10G breakout DAC). As it sits now, the os sees vnic 1 (default eth0) as a 40G interface but has no connectivity through the other v...

ESXi 7.0 U3 on UCS C240 M4SX

We are looking for instructions on installing ESXi 7.0 U3 on UCS 240 M4SX. The servers used for some other applications and are not in use for past 2 years. We downloaded ucs-c240m4-huu-4.1.2g.iso, ucs-cxxx-scu-6.1.2d.iso, ucs-cxxx-drivers-vmware.4.1...

Intersight - Rediscover chassis

Hello, Someone can tell me what this operation really do and if there are any perturbation on a chassis in production?Thanks.

Convert sff to lff

Hello I was recently given a ucs C240 m3 sff server and was wondering if the front drive carriage assembly could be swapped out to convert it to lff? I have plenty of spare 3.5in drives and would really really like to not have to spend a ton of money...

Accessibility Problem recommissioning 5108 chassis

Hi. I have tried to decommission and then recommission an empty 5108 AC2 Chassis. Well, empty of blades. Fully populated fans, power, and IO modules. Upon recommission, I get an "Accessibility Problem" messages as the status. There are very few se...

Resolved! BIOS update package for UCS C220M3 - Where to download from?

Hi, I have a UCS 220M3 server where running ucs-c220-huu-3.0.1c.iso update-all corrupted my bios. Now it's unable to boot and asking me to recover using recovery.cap file on an USB flash stick root folder. I can't seem to find that file anywhere on t...

Resolved! Rename UCS Service Profiles on HyperFlex cluster

Our organisation standard is to align the UCS Service Profile name with the VMware ESXi hostname. This gives us various advantages insofar as we can do consistency check, the CI in our CMDB and monitoring aligns.The only place I cannot do this, is Hy...

Resolved! UCS Central PowerTool - PowerShell Script to Find Server Domain

Hi,Does anyone know of way to get the domain from a server through PowerShell using the UCS PowerTool?I have a lot of domains, so I'm using code bellow to connect to UCS central, and search for a server. The idea is connect the domain and clean the S...