Unified Computing System Discussions

Dear All, I would like to see your adviceThe UCS C240 I configure in CCW contain 24 Drive backplane, my requirement will be 3 unit of 500G HDD (Raid 5) + 21 Unit of 1TB (RAID 5) = Total already 24 drive.Since UCS C240 do not have more then 1TB SATA d...

Hi all,i just integrated a C260 to UCS Manager. (converted from standalone to UCSM)Then i tried to push a serviceprofile on it -> got config error "Local disk config destructive to current storage There are not enough resources overall"Thats okay bec...

I am trying to bring up my first UCS chassis and am getting an error that doesnt make any sense.The error I am getting is cannot derive WWPN from virtualized port. I didnt configure either WWPN or WWNN or anything to do with iSCSI as for the time bei...

Hi, The issue I’m having I’ve created x2 extra vnics for the ucs blades service profiles to add in a iscsi vm network. Since adding the additonal vnics when I bring the blades and vms back online I’m unable to ping the vms on the vm network if I remo...

Hi how to check if the SFP is 1G or 10G from  UCSM?Anandraj

HiI have some issues after migrate from CX4 SAN to VNX SAN. Everything is moved from CX4 to VNX and I have disabled FC Uplink port that is connected to CX4. Both my FI's is only connected to VNX.We want SAN boot on our ESXi host, and some of them is ...

I am setting up my first UCS system and have run into something that I wouldnt have expected.In keeping with best practice, I use a vlan # other than 1 for the default vlan on trunk connections. The network I am using has been setup for vlan 4000 to ...

Hi, we are running UCS ver 2.1.1e. We are doing multihop FCoE to the N5ks from the FIs. I noticed that if you bind the FCoE uplinks into a FCoE port-channel, you cannot tag ethernet vlans on it. BUT if you keep them as just FCoE uplinks you can tag v...

Hi, i try to install C460M2 and a C260M2 via fex 2232PPBecause we are waiting for delivery of VIC Cards I have to install the Servers via 2 wire.This means I connected each Server with the 2 LOM gigabit ports to the nexus 2232PP (one port ono each ne...

hi,How do i connect UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnect to N5K-C5548UP? do i need to use FCoE or vPC as i will have multiple SAN connected (using FC) on FI.Please suggest best possible solution where i have minimul cabling hedache & can optimise physicl por...

Hi Expert,Sorry to disturb, I am recently validating a configuration of VIC1240+VMware ESXi5.1+storage array with SANboot mode, but unfortunately i hit a problem during which VMware ESXi 5.1 threw a PSOD(purple screen of death) as attached when i am ...

How do i connect UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnect to N5K-C5548UP? do i need to use FCoE or vPC as i will have multiple SAN connected (using FC) on FI.Please suggest best possible solution where i have minimul cabling hedache & can optimise physicl ports ...

Dear UCS experts,We have recently aquired our UCS B200M3 Blades and currently planning the installation Vsphere 5.1 on that. Here is the currentt configuration we haveChassis : 4 * 5108Interconnect : 6296IO Module : 2208 XP (4 cables from to each to ...

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