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michaelstump · 05-23-2013

Last week, I attempted to update a pair of 2208XPs from 2.0(3b) to 2.0(5a). I followed the upgrade guide, and ran into a known bug related to an out-of-space condition on the IOMs. TAC was able to walk me through the fix, and now I'm ready to complet...

michaelstump · 05-15-2013

Just curious if anyone else has run into an IOM firmware update that takes forever. I'm working on a 2 chassis domain with a pair of FIs in an HA pair. The two IOMs (2208xp) in chassis two updated quickly (well, quick for UCS firmware updates, so abo...

michaelstump · 11-20-2012

I've got two B230 M2 blades that are stuck at the same spot in the 2.1 upgrade process. Both are at 47%, with this text in the FSM tab:Update storage controller image(FSM-STAGE:sam:dme:ComputePhysicalAssociate:StorageCtlrImgUpdate)" dn="sys/chassis-1...

michaelstump · 07-26-2012

Hi there.I'm building out a ESXi host (or two) on a UCS with B-series blades. I'm running into trouble with getting the ESXi hosts to connect to the LAN. I've got two vNICs added to each blade, and ESXi sees the NICs as connected. I've also associate...

michaelstump · 08-11-2013

Jose,Let's just start with question 1. The 1000v is difficult to set up and configure the first few times around, so it's best to break this up into smaller questions.1)After installing ESXi,what is to be done on VMs network part?I think you're askin...

michaelstump · 05-23-2013

Ok, well, not sure what that was about, but I finally decided to force the update of the Backup versions for these IOMs to 2.0(5a), and after about 10 minutes, all was well. Go figure.mike

michaelstump · 05-15-2013

Thanks, Gregory. I've got a case opened now. I'll post the results once we've worked through the issue.UPDATE: You were exactly right. The two IOMs that were stuck in "Updating" status had run out of space in /altflash. A TAC engineer cleared out the...

michaelstump · 01-25-2013

Is this what you're looking for?https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CISCO-ESXI-5.1.0-GA-25SEP2012&productId=285#product_downloadsmike

michaelstump · 12-06-2012

When it boots, does it boot into the ESXi loader? I would expect that behaviour if you were booting into the ISO.Just to be clear, are you doing PXE booting, or just boot from SAN?mike

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