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Stephan Perschke · 12-27-2016

Hello,I read the blog Cisco UCS Custom Resource for the Microsoft Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and I'm pretty exited about it. However, before I start to configure my UCS Manager using Desired State Configuration I would like ...

Stephan Perschke · 09-30-2016

Hi, every time I re-acknlowledge a server or perform a host firmware update UCSM will disable the TPM in my C240-M3 Systems. In the BIOS policy the TPM is configured to be enabled. When UCSM is able to disable the TPM, why isn't it able to enable it,...

Stephan Perschke · 09-29-2016

Hello Cisco, Why does it have to be so complicated to find the drivers matching your UCSM host firmware package? Yesterday we installed UCSM version 3.1(2b) with the corresponding host firmware package. Before we update the host firmware on our C2...

Stephan Perschke · 02-02-2016

Hi Cisco,I used ConvertTo-UcsCmdlet to figure out how to change the disk state of local disks from "jbod" to "unconfigured-good", and to delete any orphaned virtual drive. To my surprise ConvertTo-UcsCmdlet came up with a warning in both cases:WARNIN...

Stephan Perschke · 01-28-2016

Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to change the disk state from "jbod" to "unconfigured-good" using PowerShell. It is possible using the GUI and the CLI. The new Cisco C240-M4 is comming with a Cisco RAID Controller capable to handle disks in JBOD...

Stephan Perschke · 01-10-2017

Hello Sumanth,Thank you for clearifiying this. Now I've got the picture.Kind regards,Stephan

Stephan Perschke · 01-09-2017

Hi Sumanth,Thank you for your reply.I'm still not quite sure I understood the concepts correctly. What I learned from your message is there is no Local Configuration Manager Agent running on UCSM. Therefore an intermediate Windows Server is required....

Stephan Perschke · 12-06-2016

Hi Kirk, I checked UCSM again, but the BIOS Defaults do not list the Platform Defaults for Storage Controllers, like the LSI MegaRAID 9271-8i. Kind regards,Stephan

Stephan Perschke · 12-06-2016

Hello Kevin, Unfortunately I never found the 'Platform Defaults' for Storage Controllers in UCSM. Today we are using version 3.1(2b). That is really a pitty as from my experience 'Platform Defaults' can be quite different. On the C240 M3 server with...

Stephan Perschke · 09-30-2016

Hi, The boot drive is limited to 2TB when the legacy BIOS is used. You can try to configure a 2TB virtual drive, respectilvy DG in your RAID Controller and try installing Windows again. Kind regards, Stephan

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Re: Desired State Configuration

Hi Kirk,

Hello Kevin,

Hi,