Setup are 2 UCS blades in 2 datacenters 50 miles apart. However the backbone between the 2 is 40 Gigabits. The UCS's are connected with fiber at 10 gigs to a Cisco 3750 switch which is also 10 gigs. The San in one Datacenter is an EMC Isilon and the other datacenter used a Dell Equallogic. The 2 SAN's have a couple 1 gig connections. Here are my results. A 3 gig file will copy between the 2 datacenters around a gig speed. That works from either a Virtual server's blade drives or from the Isilon which is NFS. Same with a physical Server 2008 on one of the blades that I built just for this testing. I would have thought that from one VM's own drives to the remote VM's own drives that I would get more than 1 gig speed. On to a couple hundred thousand small files. Copying a test folder of 145,000 files that is about 100 gigs in size I get 10-12 MB's per second or about 1/10th of a gigabit connection. That happens between both datacenters and also from the Isilon's nfs share to the remote VM server (tested to the local VM's physical drive and also the SAN). Same results going from one VM server's physical drives to a Physical 2008 server in the other datacenter that I built for this testing. It is just as slow (10 Mbs-copying that 100 gigs of data from the Isilon nfs share right to a VM's datastore which is also on the Isilon.) any ideas here? ... View more

I had an ESXi host on a UCS blade and in that the VLAN 138 was configured right from the ESXi host. I rebuilt the blade as a physical Server 2008 host and the nic in the physical server under properties under Configure does not have the standard VLAN setting where I could set it to 138. I went to the service profile and changed the default vlan to 138 and reset the connectivity but I still cannot connect outside the server. Update: I do not know what I did but I have one up and running. I guess my question is this. Does the server have to be rebooted if I make a change to a nic card through the profile in order for it to take effect? ... View more

This was an ESXi host that I want to setup as a physical Server 2008 R2 server. Where I get hung up is the Installer give me grief that the partition is GPT and can't do the Windows one. So I attached the Driver DVD for the Cisco UCS B200 M2 and it doesn't like any of those drivers. I can delete the partition and do a new but it always comes back as GPT. thanks Gary ... View more

I am not a networking person and I usually use Network Assistant to configure my switches but I kept running into a ton of errors such as "Static Ip Address" came when I went to add a port to the initial etherchannel. I wasn't sure out of the quite a few choices what I should even select to get rid of that Static thing. It was set to a default of I believe Auto Dynamic or something like that. I think I want desirable mode and load balance-Source Destination IP Address. If I am wrong on that please correct me. Any help would be apprecticated. thanks Gary ... View more