Unified Computing System Discussions

Multicast Issue in UCS

We have, what we believe, to be a multicast issue or design issue in our UCS environment.Environment:two (2) 6120 Fabric Interconnects configured in end-host modetwo (2) Chassisfour (4) v4.1 ESXi Bladestwo (2) 3750 switches in one (1) stack.one (1) 7...

ESXi CPU error B200 M4

Hi team,My 2 B200 M4 blades are 2 x CPU E5-2660 v3 with 10 cores. All CPU informtion are showing correct on UCSM.For VMware licensing purpose, ESXi (5.5 U2) is showing me 4 processors sockets and 5 cores per sockets instead of 2 processors sockets an...

Mac Address on th wrong VIF

Good morning every one, A little post to discuss about a weird situation i found on two UCS domain i installed recently. On each UCS domain I created a service profile with two VNIC (VNIC0 and VNIC1) each VNIC is configured to be connected to a diffe...

Cisco UCS compatibility for vSphere 6

Greetings, I was wondering when the projected date for Cisco UCS B series servers to be certified compatible for vSphere 6 was? I was hoping a Cisco engineer or product manager could comment. I don't expect an exact date, but a rough estimate would b...

Resolved! UCS Powershell find VLANs of VLAN Group

Hi, I'm running UCS Manager 2.2 with powershell module CiscoUcsPS (v1.3.1.0) and want to find all VLANs of a specific VLAN Group. If I run Get-UcsVlan I get all the VLANs, but this doesn't seem to contain any information regarding which VLAN Group th...

vSphere Esxi 5.5 issue

Hello..I'm using vSphere Esxi 5.5 on Cisco UCS B200 M3 and sometimes the server stop and shows these attached screens, any idea about the problem?

Resolved! Cisco Custom ISO - VMWare ESXi 5.5 Upd 2 - VMware Update Manager still showing Update 2 Required

Hello All, I just updated one of my hosts with the latest cisco image provided on vmware's site (Vmware-ESXi-5.5.0-2068190-custom-Cisco-5.5.2.3). After applying it as a host upgrade and then doing a scan against the host in update manager, it shows ...

Resolved! Software Raid Key for 2 HDDs

Do anybody know if a software raid key is needed for a 2 HDD raid 1 or 0, in a embedded raid controller ?

Enabling Failover While creating the vNIC Template

Hello all,As per my understanding enabling fail-over will create the secondary virtual path, which gives me the failover of vNIC automatically with the secondary virtual path that got created & the traffic will be routed towards another FI.While crea...

has anyone heard of the ucs blades crashing, like all of them, when/if you put esxi 5.5 into LACP?

our VM guy here was trying to use LACP to solve an issue with ESXi and vmotion. He was on the phone with vmware and when it came down to putting the one blade he was working on in LACP the vm ware tech said that he would not do it because it would c...

Resolved! C220 M3 problem ( Boot Cycle at "config...Screen)

Hi ProUCS C220 M3 now Bootig at "Config..." Screen and cycle ;but the CIMC is OK can access from web

Resolved! OTV, FabricPath and VxLAN

Hi GurusWe are keen to evaluate Cisco OTV & Fabricpath, as well as VXLAN. Would you be able to help in listing out the pros & cons between these technologies? We are looking at simulating 4 sites interconnected fully-meshed Active/Active setup. We wo...

Resolved! erase configuration issue

Hi AllI configured UCS and did FW upgrade for infra and B-sereisNow, I want to erase all the configuration of UCS by connect to FI and do the command erase configuration (for subordinate then primary)Now would the FW upgrade will be lost after deleti...

vpc with VIC1225 on C2xx?

Hi, as the title says, is it possible to form a portchannel between a C220/C240 with VIC1225 carved into multiple vnic's and ESXi 5.5 running and two Nexus 3K/5K formed as vpc peers?We have tried doing so and the vpc comes up just fine but we get con...

to auto install or not?

We are preparing for our first UCS firmware upgrade since implementing over a year ago. We have 10 blades, all B200 M3 between 2 chassis currently. We are on 2.2(1b) and are preparing to upgrade to 2.2(3d). Seems like auto install would be the way ...