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B200 M3 SAN Boot Windows 2012 Issues

Hi, I am trying to install Windows 2012 on a LUN hanging off an EMC Clariion CX120 to a B200 M3 blade. The blade has 1 FC HBA zoned to a single target.What I notice during the Windows install is that once the FCoE Miniport driver is loaded, the init...

Resolved! Checking the entire inventory of Cisco UCS C220 M3S and expanding the hard-drive data-store on Vmware

Hello Gang,I am new to DC so I have a few newbie questions:I have a Cisco UCS C220 server. Using the GUI, I can see that I have a an LSI Mega Raid SAS 9271-8i raid controller in slot two. The controller currently has four 464.7 GB hard drives...

Problems with 2.21d firmware package

In preparing for a SAN install in the next couple of weeks, I applied the latest updates using the infrastructure and server firmware packages to my UCS chassis. The infrastructure upgrade/update applied without incident. Cant say the same for the ...

Cisco UCS fails boot after firmwareupgrade to 2.2 / Boot ESXi from iSCSI LUN

Hi,After firmware upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2, I am not able to boot from LUN over iSCSI. I try out to reinstallt the vSphere from CD to LUN, and that works fine. After first reboot, it fails. UCS Server goes directly to the BIOS. Unter Boot Options noth...

Resolved! vsan membership down on mapped FC uplink port

Hi,since I updated Cisco UCS Manager, all Chassis and Fabric Interconnects to version 2.2(1), I get some minor faults.I configure ports 31 and 32 as FC uplink ports and mapped each port to a vsan:Port 31 = VSAN "blue"Port 32 = VSAN "red"(I know, this...

Boot opions / missing boot options #1, #2, #3

Dear all,After an firmware update from UCS 2.1 to 2.2, on the BIOS the Boot Options are changed. I found no bootable devices, like my NetApp LUN or local disk or my Vitual CD. Anyone an idea?

Resolved! Service profile resource issue

I am having an issue associating a service profile to a blade. The error I am receiving when I attempt to assoicate the profile is:Failure Reason: advanced boot or secure boot configuration cannot be applied to the specific server There are not ...

NICS in esxi show 40000 and 10000

I have some nics in esxi 5.5 showing 10000 and some showing 40000 I have 10 nics on the service profile and I am using the VIC 1280 any idea why?

Resolved! installed wrong vem module on esxi 5.5

I accidently used vmware update manager to update my vem module on esxi 5.5 but my vsm are running 4.2(1)SV2(2.1 The vem I installed was 2.2 I uninstalled the vem but now when i try to install the 2.1 vem Its saying /vmfs/volumes/53585793-694e515f-1...

UCS - MDS Interop. Information

Can someone please confirm, that the following MDS interop. information applies to UCS FI in NPV, as well as FC switch mode ! or is it only for switch mode ? Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrixhttp://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unifie...

Replacing broken IOM (RMA)

Customer replaces a broken IOM (RMA process);Question: can one simply install the replacement IOM, and the Northbound FI will handle everything ? e.g.- what if the IOM doesn't come with the proper (equal firmware level) as the FI ?- will the IOM just...

Resolved! UCS C220 M3 raid 6

Hello,I have a UCS C220 M3 server. with 8 hard drives in it. I am going to install only CUCM and Unity on this server. (4K users).The server comes without RAID configuration.Cisco recommends RAID 5. I hoped use a RAID 6.The space is reduced from 1.9...

Resolved! Generating a Certificate Signing Request on UCS C220 M3 running CIMC 1.5(4e)

Hi, I have a couple of UCS C220 M3 servers and want to install certificates on them.The certificate authority will not issue certs with a modulus of 1024 which seems to be the default created when generating a Certificate Signing Request using the GU...

NUMA Nodes in UCS B420 M3

Hi Cisco community, How many NUMA nodes are in a UCS B420 M3 blade server? Thanks!

Resolved! Setup UCS Auto-Deploy using PXE and dual vNICs

We are trying to set up Auto Deploy for UCS B200 M3 blade servers. Our setup has the chassis connected to dual 6248 Fabric Interconnects. We were successful in getting this to work when the blades were identified via MAC address configured on the D...

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B200 M3 SAN Boot Windows 2012 Issues

Resolved! Checking the entire inventory of Cisco UCS C220 M3S and expanding the hard-drive data-store on Vmware

Problems with 2.21d firmware package

Cisco UCS fails boot after firmwareupgrade to 2.2 / Boot ESXi from iSCSI LUN

Resolved! vsan membership down on mapped FC uplink port

Boot opions / missing boot options #1, #2, #3

Resolved! Service profile resource issue

NICS in esxi show 40000 and 10000

Resolved! installed wrong vem module on esxi 5.5

UCS - MDS Interop. Information

Replacing broken IOM (RMA)

Resolved! UCS C220 M3 raid 6

Resolved! Generating a Certificate Signing Request on UCS C220 M3 running CIMC 1.5(4e)

NUMA Nodes in UCS B420 M3

Resolved! Setup UCS Auto-Deploy using PXE and dual vNICs

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