Unified Computing System Discussions

Resolved! Reconnect Rack Server to USC moved to stand alone mode

We have a Cisco C240 M4l Rack server connected to a Cisco Blade Chassis. This server operating system had to be completely reinstalled but by mistake the USC was changed to Stand Alone mode. Now The Rack Server cannot connect to anything since it los...

Cisco UCS B200 M5 Server - No local disks showing

Hi, I have a Cisco UCS B200 M5 Server connected to 6 sdd units within an ESS. I am trying to install ESXi but not getting any storage devices showing. I have shown some of my settings below, many thanks

How loud are 6332-16UP Fabric Interconnects?

Is anyone able to advise from real life experience how loud 6332-16UP fabric interconnects are during idle/low usage? I'm weighing up moving to these for my home lab, but am concerned about trying to know how loud they are first. I had 2 x 6248UP fir...

Configuring Backplane Speed Preference on 6332 FI's

The Chassis/Fex discovery policy now has a backplane speed selection option, 40G or 4x10G. I assume this coresponds to the breakout port function, but I have not found any good guidance on this as of yet. What is the function of this selection? Wh...

Resolved! How to copy vNIC templates from one sub-org to another

My colleagues created a Org structure in UCS Manager with the wrong Parent Org name which looks like this:LAN\Policies\root\Sub-Organisations\Shared\Sub-Organisations\SharedClusters\IncorrectOrgName\I need to correct the "IncorrectOrgName", and since...

Resolved! UCS mini upgrading infastructure firmware on FI

We have a Cisco UCS mini. I'm reviewing the instructions for upgrading the infrastructure firmware. ( 3.2(3n) - 4.1(3f) ) I have a question regarding the fabric interconnects during the upgrade process. It's been many years since I have been involved...

Resolved! Compatibility query

Is HP rack server is compatible with Cisco UCSM. Can we connect HP rack server in CISCO fabric interconnect??

FI restore question

I know Ucs fi backup full-state create a snapshot of system and system configis this snapshot same as VMware snapshot including system state and data? when i restore at setup can I restore whole system software as backup ,snapshot,system config from ...

ipv6 multicast snooping (mld)

Hi all,On our 6248UP based UCS systems i have ipv4 multicast snooping set up and that has been working for a long time now.Now i need to do the same for ipv6 multicast, but i cant find any info about this.is ipv6 multicast even supported ? All info i...

Cisco UCS B200 M5 Server CIMC Issue

HI, I currently can't load up CIMC. When I enter the CIMC IP address via Cisco UCS Manager, it gives me the KVM console for the server and no option to enter the actual CIMC? Many thanks for any advice.

UCS + Nimble storage + VMware - guide wanted

We've got HPE Nimble storage that we need to attach to our existing Cisco UCS + VMware environment, which currently runs off different storage. I initially thought we'd get some guidance along with the Nimble, but HPE's advice was mostly "go talk to ...

Resolved! Drive missing Cisco UCS 240.

I am having some strange problem in my cisco ucs 240 m5. There are total of 24 disk installed on the server. Every thing was good until yesterday. 4 hardisk (SAS) suddenly went missing from OS and CIMC. Upon checking the server the led is ok(green an...

Resolved! 6296 FI and IOM 2208 : Server and Uplink 4-8 link change

Hi UCS Community, We have 4 Server links per chassis per FI with our 3 chassis (2 x 16 B200 M3 and 1 x 3 B200 M5)We have 6 Uplinks per FI to the 5548UPs. Is it advisable to insert all cables (to fully populate the IOM) into all 3 chassis and the 5K's...

UCS C22 M3 Software RAID Recover Raid Config

I have a small business where they had 3 raids configured. 2 drives raid 1, 4 drives raid 5, 2 drives raid 1. the OS drive, the first one died during a storm. They replaced the 2 drives and during the reconfiguration they cleared the raid config. ...

Resolved! Fabric Interconnect local forwarding capability

I have been getting mixed information regarding UCS/HX FI local forwarding capability when FI pair is running in ethernet end-host mode. I just want to confirm it one last time here: When UCS FI is running in Ethernet end-host mode, will two VMs (sa...