We have a couple of blades where the  "Thermal condition on chassis X is upper-critical" (F0409) and " Thermal condition on chassis 3 is upper-non-critical" (F0410) alerts are constantly flapping. It appears the last couple of blades (8 and sometimes 7) in each chassis run a little hot (88-89 deg C) when the CPUs are under heavy load. Cisco support seems to think this is normal. Is there a way to disable or modify *just these faults* for *just blade 8* in each chassis? "Fault suppression" lets me only disable all alerts for the blade. ... View more

I am confused about the difference between the "bundle" and "offline bundle" that come with the UCS VMware driver ISO. The zip files contain completely different VIBs, for example for an fnic driver: In fnic_driver_1.6.0.34-offline_bundle-5367434.zip: CSCO_bootbank_scsi-fnic_1.6.0.34-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585.vib In fnic_driver_1.6.0.34-5367434: scsi-fnic_1.6.0.34-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585.vib Which do I install, or both?  The "offline bundle" is much smaller than the other zip file as well. The install guide says to install the "offline bundle" so what's the larger version for? Related question: Is there a driver upgrade that distributes the driver gouped first by OS version, rather than driver type, so I can avoid combing through all the subfolders in the ISO for a match with my OS version? Thanks w ... View more

It doesn't appear possible to configure Call Home in UCS Manager 3.1(2e) without registering Smart Call Home with Cisco. I cannot enter SMTP Server information without completing all of the fields in the "Ids" section (customer contract and site ID). When I enter bogus numbers in those fields so I can Save Changes, my Send System Inventory tests do not work. I can get those IDs eventually from our VAR but for now is there a way to set up UCS to send mail to myself without setting up Smart Call Home? -wsanders ... View more

We've got some newly-purchased B200 M4s with E5-2699 (145W) CPUs. The blades at the end of the chassis (slot 7 and 8) are throwing temperature alerts for CPU2, which is running as hot as 80 deg C on one of the blades. At the same time, CPU1 is only mazing out at 52 or so. It would seem that the thermal design for this chassis with this blade and CPU is deficient. Only blades in slots 7 and 8 go over the 80 deg alert threshold. CPU2 in slows 1 and 3 run at more normal temps, max 67 deg C or so. There is also a 15 to 20 deg difference between CPU1 and CPU2 on all our 2699-equipped blades. Are we missing a baffle upgrade for the 145W CPUs? A heat sink upgrade? Perhaps there is a BIOS upgrade to run the fans at full speed? Has anyone else had this problem? I have not yet pulled a blade for physical inspection - I've seen this problem before; it was when an incompetent FSE swapped front and back heat sinks on some HP servers that, like the B200s, had different size heat sinks for CPU1 (front) and CPU2 (rear). This caused a 25 degree delta between CPU temps. When the heat sinks were swapped back to their normal configuration, the CPUs ran at the same temperature. ... View more