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Hi Folks - we have been running VMware on UCS for 5 years now and we are about to move to NFS datastores and retire FC. I would like to add 2 new vNICs (vmnics in VMWare) to carry NFS traffic on isolated VLANs. The 2 new vNICs need to be able to c...
Hi Folks - we just had a major outage, and the only errors I see in UCSM pertain to the capability catalogue. I have upgraded firmware many times and never really knew this even existed until the recent outage. My questions to the community are a...
Hello Cisco Community - can anyone help me understand how to monitor packet drops in Cisco UCS? In UCSM there are error and loss counters in the port stats, but none are a basic counter for packet drops, and more specifically how can one check to se...
@ Rekdal - thanks for helping. Anyone else want to help with explaining what impact the admin host port setting, manually defining the PCI channel within the 1340 VIC, will have on throughput? if any at all?
@ ssumichrast - the admin host port controls the 2 PCI channels, setting to auto results in round robin between these 2 channels on the vCON. I have but a single 1340 VIC, no extenders for extra bandwidth. I want to understand the impact of manual...
I have stability when configuring the admin host port to 1 for the vNICs and 2 for the vHBAs, but my concern is how this affects traffic. I recognize that setting the admin host port to 1 vs 2 will affect enumeration, but does it affect IO at all? ...
There has to be 100 plus customers out there that have run into this issue, I have toyed with a few configurations regarding placement, but the MAC addresses shown in VMWare vmnics still don't align with the vNIC in UCS. We have actually had this i...
@ REkdal163 - thanks for this, however, the web client doesn't have an area that shows PCI assignments, you may have been looking at the old thick client that used flash. This is where I'm stumped because the output of the command "localcli --plugin...
