Unified Computing System Discussions

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...

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...

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

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, ...

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 ...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Is support planned for the Nvidia Quadro 4000,5000,6000 line of video cards for UCS?I realize it will require a 8pin male to 6pin male power adapter which at the moment doesn't appear to exist but can be done with extensions...