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I could use some guidance. I have not tried support yet from either Cisco or VMware but here is my struggle. I have an environment with probably 15 - 20 b200m5 blades. They are all set to legacy bootThey all boot local via local disks configured in a...
The environment is currently running ESXi and booting from local disk. Right now it has 2 vHBAs which connect to our SAN fabric/storage externally. Its got an additional 4 vnics. It's laid out as followsvHBA0vHBA1VNIC1VNIC2VNIC3VNIC4Id like to clone ...
I have a couple of questions. Ill try and keep this as breif and simple as i can. I have a UCS System that currently uses a 6332-16UP FIs. Right now it is connected to some legacy non cisco FC swtiches and legacy storage arrays. We have new FC stora...
Im a bit at a loss. I have and older ucs system with b200 m5 blades. I am reusing those blades in a whole new environment due to hardware refresh. The new environment is managed via IMM only and there is no UCSM.When i go to deploy my newly created S...
WE use service profile templates to deploy our b series. Historically every time we get a new blade "version" we create a new Service Profile Template for them. For example b200m4 blades has its own service profile templateWhen we got new m5s for a ...
Also, have you been through article kb 313378 from Broadcom saying your hosts if running legacy may randomly just not boot with a out of memory error on boot up? That seems not great. Thats what got me to start converting over to UEFI. That and its b...
ah one other thing i will note after looking closely after reading your post is that all the vmhba connections renamed themselves in vmware too. The storage still works fine and appears not be an issue. As you stated the wwpns are the source of truth...
ThanksOurs are Skylake.. b200 m5 servers. Firmware is 4.1.3d. I ran the reorder stated in my previous post and so far so good. IT did put the vmnics back in the correct order after a reboot. You can run it from ssh provided you can still get at the m...
Thanks...this bug artlcle was shared with me. Is this worth trying? It outlines reordering the nics from the cli and rebooting. I can always reload if that is recommended but this is listed as a bug article and talks about resorting the nic orders b...
Same Issue.Vmware/Broadom states they will not support you if you are on Legacy and you have to switch to UEFI. Contacted TAC to confirm the process to switch over to UEFI and swtched over boot policies from Legacy to UEFI. Boots up fine but NICs an...
