Unified Computing System Discussions

Hi,Is there any way to find out or see what XML data was sent across when an operation was performed.Ex: Say when a "Service Profile" was dissociated from its current association.The reason for asking this is I want to write my own code to do this, i...

Folks,on a UCS 6100 fabirc extender how do you  verify that the xmlagent is running? this question is come from one of our developers,...I am not very efficent with 6100 series. regards,Nik

I need to enable RSS (receive-side scaling) on the enic interfaces in UCS. I followed the document at this link. However, all the interrupts are still being delivered on only one CPU. There are 8 CPU queues with 7 of them always empty. "ethtool -k" a...

I would like to know, if UCS is in FC switch mode, connecting E-port to a upstream MDS switch; does the UCS FC switch support- all zoning and zoneset activation has to be done on the MDS, and is pushed down to UCS ? correct ?- enhanced zoning (per VS...

I am currently on 2.1.1e/1f depending on how you look at UCSM.  Due to a possible hardware problem relating to NTP, VMWare has requested that I upgrade to the latest available code.  I am not usually one to go bleeding edge without a very good reason...

Hello,Is it possible/supported to integrate C-240M3 with NVIDIA cards in a UCS Fabric Interconnect environment? I guess UCS Service Profiles don't know about NVIDIA cards, so I'm wondering how will the hypervisor know about its existence.Thanks a lot...

Hi, Recently under VIF paths tab, on 3 different UCS domains, I did noticed that some virtual circuits were notified "unpinned". It was under 3 different UCS domain running 2.1(1a), 2.2(1b) and 2.1(3b). In order to correct, the issue :- first time, I...

Hi,My UCS FI are installed with Ver 2.2.1C. When I reload FI-A or FI-B my Service Profile vEth or vHBA are in an unknown state or error disabled. This is viewed in the Service Profile VIF Paths Tab.I have to reset the IOM Module to clear the fault. T...

Hi;I have a requirement for a datacentre interconnection that the DCs are about 600km apart. Has anyone experienced the DCB (Datacentre Bridging) at close to this distance? or should I be looking at OTV ?The features what I am looking between the DCs...

Hi, While introducing an MDS9148 switch to the environment we changed Fabric Interconnect FC mode from Switch to End Host. However, after the required FI reboot all ports in the FC Expansion Module were completely dead - they show up as failed in UCS...

Dear all,My UCS chassis now facing a problem, that is UCSM fail to discover blades (2 blades), when I looked into FSM of the task discovery, i saw the following: <computeBladeFsmStage  descr="detect mezz cards in 1/1(FSM-STAGE:sam:dme:ComputeBladeDis...

Chaps,If is just me but all previos versions of 1000v software take the naming convention nexus-1000v-kickstart-mz.X.X.X.SVx.X.binAn now I have the latest software:nexus-1000v-kickstart.4.2.1.SV2.1.1a.binAm I missing a trick here?  Or has there been ...

Hi,I am working on a project on which the customer has limited access to 10GigE Ports on their Core Network.As we all know you can configure LAN Appliances under the FI6248, but I was wondering if I can use such option within the FI to connect the EM...

Hi All,We have recently setup a Cisco UCS platform, with 4 chassis, and using the fabric interconnect/UCS Manager to manage the racks.Our monitoring team uses EMC Smarts (v9) for monitoring the whole environment. We have been having trouble getting t...