No worries I don’t use the emulator any longer. It was helpful but honestly kind of a pain to get set up with the hardware interface. And it doesn’t support break out cable configurations. But it was a good platform for some up front learning before the real deal was shipped and in place in our datacenter. ... View more

Hi Dave - I configured the UCS emulator to connect to our Microsoft AD, never seen a single error in the process, but after logging out to do a test login the first thing I see wrong is that there isn't a additional field that contains the AD option.   I remember in the past there was always an option to type in the user, pw, and also select the remote authentication source, such as AD, that was defined.   Please let me know if the Emulator is not set up for this activity (integration with remote LDAP), or whether the 3rd field in the logon page to select the proper ldap source is not longer used.. When you don't get errors in your configuration efforts, you expect things are working properly.   I don't want to begin a troubleshooting process with the emulator if its not coded to actually integrate with an LDAP source. Thanks in advance if you can get to this question.   ... View more

Hi David - I'm still toying with the emulator, and I have errors in the IO modules on all 4 fabric ports,  along with errors showing on each server, its all stating I need to update firmware, however, the firmware showing in the running state is in fact  3.1(2b).    Also, note, UCSM for the emulator is running 3.1(2e).   Can you advise please? Ken ... View more

6332 16UP.   For now I just went with uplink ports, but thankfully I am taking the time to walk through the documentation and noticed the specifics for configuring the breakout ports, otherwise, if I just relied on the options in the emulator I would be in trouble because I would have configured our 40GB breakout ports as standard uplinks ports.  ... View more

thanks David - I'm seeing something finicky which I'm not sure is either because of the documentation not being right or because I haven't applied this firmware metadata package.. When I try to configure a breakout port, the breakout port options is greyed out, I only see the following: ... View more

Is there a reason I don't see firmware bundle for UCSM 3.1.2e??  I'm a stickler for details, and when I don't see what I expect to I have a breakdown.    Is the firmware bundle above 3.1.2b the latest and greatest for the 3.1.2e Emulator?  This is a great tool, but clearly the documentation and over all delivery to customers seems lacking. ... View more