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mdrudge · 07-15-2025

I have some standalone rackmounts that we added to Intersight for monitoring purposes. They are configured locally on the CIMC, so there are no server profiles involved. For licensing constraints, I have to remove these from Intersight. I'm thinki...

mdrudge · 10-02-2024

We have some UCSM 6332-16UP domains with 2304 IOMs that need Infrastructure fimware updates. We usually use autoinstall from Central, but this last round we had issues and ran into a bug that cannot be resolved until after our next firmware upgrades...

mdrudge · 01-31-2024

We have a few domains of 6536 FIs managed by Intersight. We want to move the FIs in one of our domains in the rack, which will cause a brief outage. I think that enabling fabric evacuation before shutting down an FI before moving it would be the wa...

mdrudge · 08-10-2023

Ok, we're taking the plunge, and setting up new X-series hardware with Intersight. I'm getting the Intersight connected appliance set up, and doing some research beforehand. I see that you need to reserve a "/20 subnet within the 172.16.0.0/12 rang...

mdrudge · 02-15-2023

I am trying to spec out a C-series rackmount with local storage. I would like to have a large RAID-6 volume with 8 drives, but I would also like a smaller Raid-1 mirrored disk with 2 drives for the C: drive of the server. When looking at specs, it ...

mdrudge · 07-23-2025

Thanks for that explanation Sandeep, and sorry I've been slow to respond. Another random question, though, if your Intersight license expires, there's a 90-day grace period, correct? Or will the servers just stop functioning? I'm just trying to ge...

mdrudge · 10-04-2024

Hi Riaan, thanks for your response. That answers my question. And to answer your question, the bug was this guy here: https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwf25608 . We were able to upgrade successfully, just during the upgrade process ...

mdrudge · 01-31-2024

Thanks, Wes, I appreciate the prompt response. It's not a huge problem, but it sounds like UCS will just have to treat the FI removal like an unexpected failover. I will keep an eye out for this functionality in the future.

mdrudge · 08-14-2023

Thanks for the prompt reply. I definitely would not reserve this subnet without the involvement of our network team, but requesting a /20 subnet is a big ask and I'm trying to come up with the best information to justify it. The impression I'm gett...

mdrudge · 02-22-2023

Thanks for the replies! Yes, I was struggling with the tool. I thought that the tool might stop me from trying a configuration that wasn't possible. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to use SED drives, so I don't think I can use M.2 disks. This do...

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Removing standalone rackmounts from Intersight

Upgrading IOMs manually

Fabric Evacuation in IMM

Private IPs for Intersight Appliance

Basic Question about C-Series disks

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