Unified Computing System Discussions

Resolved! Port channel on Fabric interconnet

Hi,I'm having a port-channel from UCS Fabric interconnect up to Nexus 5k.My question is can I change the port-channel load balance mechanism in the Fabric interconnect?By default it is set to:Non-IP: source-dest-macIP: source-dest-ip source-dest-macT...

Uplink ports on 6506E and UCS FI 6248's

Hello, I am trying to get my UCS on line with two uplink ports in an ether channel connected to a single 6506E switch with dup sup's. I have FI-A in PO100 and FI-B in PO200 on the 6500 and FI's.The problem I am having is that only one member of each...

Both Fabric Interconnect rebooted during firmware upgrade

Hello,A colleague of mine performed a UCS firmware some days ago and found an odd situation.He was upgrading from UCS 2.0(1w) to 2.1(1f).He followed the guide posted here, manual option.He activated UCS Manager.Then He updated the IOM firmware with t...

Resolved! PowerShell script issue

Hello All,I am creating a script to backup all of my UCS domains in one pass. I have created the proper credential file so that is not the issue. The issue happens when trying to create the output filename to include the domain name as part of the ...

NIC Placement

Hello,Is there anyway to show NIC in Windows 2008R2/2012 SAME ORDER it was created in UCS Manager?ThanksHetal Soni

UCS Admin account disabled

Had a Monday morning momentWe have two UCS Servers UCS C220 M3L Firmware 1.5 (1f) recently built but not in production yet.Noticed that the CIMC account was still admin and cisco so decided to create new administrator account.First server no issues, ...

Server Ports on Expansion Modules?

So I've seen in Cisco documentation and on some other places that the Expansion modules on the interconnects can NOT be used as server ports for the chasis?So on a 6296 FI you can only use the fixed ports for downlink/server ports? So that means you ...

Poor Autodeploy Performance on UCS B-Series

"I have been rolling out Autodeploy to provision vSphere 5.0 U1 hosts in our environment. We are running on Cisco UCS blades with full 10GbE connectivity within our datacenter fabric. Our DHCP, DNS, TFTP and vCenter servers are all reachable over t...

Unable to load driver for Storage for Windows 2008 UCS B230 M2

I am trying to Boot from SAN windows 2008 R2. I have configured and connected the Cisco UCS Chassis and FI to our Network & Storage .I am having problem to install Windows 2008 R2 Server on Blades as it is not able to see Storage LUN while installa...

UCS E140S (Singe-wide Blade) - sd cards query

Hello, can someone help me with the following items? - UCS E140S (Singe-wide Blade) comes with 2x SD cards, one (sd0) dedicated for CIMC software and other (sd1) for Hypervisor/ OS install.- Can I use sd0 to store additional software/ files if I need...

Memory configuration for a 192GB B200-M3

Customer configured 12 x 16 GB Dimm configuration on a B200-M3Server 3/4: Equipped Product Name: Cisco UCS B200 M3 Equipped PID: UCSB-B200-M3 Equipped VID: V01 Equipped Serial (SN): FCH16277ZK7 Slot Status: Equipped Acknowledged Pr...

UCS License: grace-period

HiWe are deploying UCS 2.1(2a) with 6296 FI.On top of the 18 port default license allocation, additional ports can be configured and used with a 120 day grace-period license (until an additonal / full paid for license is installed).My current underst...

Resolved! UCS and VMWare-VNIC-VMNIC active-active/active-standby

Dear Team,We have 3 ESXi hosts each with vSwitch1 and portgroup with name TEST with VLAN 50We have 3 VMs setup with 19.168.0.X series and are assigned to VLAN TESTEach vSwitch1 is assigned with 2 vmnics on same VLAN 50(vnics created from UCS,service ...

Single FEX suffice?

Hello -pardon some of the ignorance but I am just trying to do a sanity check.I am setting up a 5108 UCS chassis with (2) 6240 Fabric Interconnects that will connect to a single 2232PP 10g FEX. The FEX is uplinked to (2) 5596 switches (2links) connec...

Data flow between VMs

Hello,I have a question that how data flows between two VMs.For example my TestVM-1 reside on Blade-1 of Chassis-1 and TestVM-2 resides on Blade-2 of Chassis-2In above scenario how my data will flow in shown / attached diagram.Data will flow from FI ...

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Resolved! Port channel on Fabric interconnet

Uplink ports on 6506E and UCS FI 6248's

Both Fabric Interconnect rebooted during firmware upgrade

Resolved! PowerShell script issue

NIC Placement

UCS Admin account disabled

Server Ports on Expansion Modules?

Poor Autodeploy Performance on UCS B-Series

Unable to load driver for Storage for Windows 2008 UCS B230 M2

UCS E140S (Singe-wide Blade) - sd cards query

Memory configuration for a 192GB B200-M3

UCS License: grace-period

Resolved! UCS and VMWare-VNIC-VMNIC active-active/active-standby

Single FEX suffice?

Data flow between VMs

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