Unified Computing System Discussions

Resolved! Vmware Snapshots

Hello, I would like to know if it would be a good procedure to when doing upgrades or installing any patch do a "Snapshot" with the vmware. I have my daily backups but just want to know if this could also help to have a backup. Thanks.

getting mac address from vnic0

How do I use the powertool to get the mac address of vnic0 which will be my pxeboot nic which I need to make a reservation into dhcp so that the blade can pxeboot the first time

UCS Central with signed SSL certificates

All,I have UCS Central setup up and working with two UCS Domains using the default certificate in UCS Central. I created a signed certificate to use for https and uploaded it. I committed https to use the new signed cert but now the UCS domains fai...

Resolved! UCS C-Series Call home

Hi,We have some Rack mount C220's ad 240 servers that we are currently blind to in terms of hardware monitoring. As they are backup servers we don't want the traffic to pass through the FI's, is there a way to monitor the servers with call home using...

Resolved! Software RAID and harddrives visibility in CIMC inventory. I cannot see any of my 2 disks. Right or not?

Hello,we have got CE500 – VCS (telepresence), which is CISCO UCS C series server. The latest CIMC/Bios update is applied (2.0.3...)There is no hw raid controller inserted.Server seems to be OK but when looking into CIMC inventory I cannot see any of ...

UCS 240 Nic Teaming

Hello, I have a UCS 240,y the vSwitch configuration I only have 1 vmnic0, I need to configure teaming / failover, but my question is, if I add a (vSwitch0 Properties-->Network Adpaters,) second vmnic1 will I have any connectivity issue? Thanks.

Resolved! One of the two cluster FIs have a bootflash capacity-exceed warning

Hi everybody, Could someone can solve this or show me what files in the bootflash? I found some documents on Cisco site , the bootflash utilization should equal. One of them is 30% and another is almost 70%

Expansion Hard Disk Vmware Esxi 5.1

Hello, I have a doubt with the exansion of hard disk in vmawre esxi 5.1 in RAID 1. We have the following:- 4 HD 500GB each one- RAID 1 And we want to add 4 HD in this RAID:- 8 HD 500 GB each one- RAID 1 ( 4HD - 4 HD) How can I do this without losing...

ucs 10GB qos

how should i setup Qos on my 10GB uplinks? Currently I have mgmt - 2 nicsvmotion - 2 nicsVms - 2 nicsiSCSI - 2 nicswhat policy or best practice is recommended? how should i carve up or make sure iSCSI gets priority incase of congestion? most of the ...

UCSM showing below alert

i am seeing this alert when accessing UCSM. what could be cause and how can be resolve it?

Resolved! creating port-profile on n1kv but not showing in vcenter

I recently upgraded my vsm to 5.2(1)SV3(1.4) and also upgraded all vems show module shows all vems are onlinealso show svs connections shows vcenter is connected. but when I create a new port-profile on the n1kv, ITs not syncing up with vcenter any i...

About methods for collecting HW logs in the OS

Hello, Experts.My customer want to find Hardware Logs and inventory data in the OS (Windows or Linux).And I could find that the System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) can do some of the job.But my customer also want to find that the OS agents which c...

UCS 5108 change number of network cards on B200-m3 server

Hi Here is have Cisco 5108 UCS system with 2.2 1c firmware. Originally someone created 4 vNICS and applied to server through profile. Now we need additional virtual network cards created and assigned to vLANS. How would I now increase number of netwo...

Boot from SAN to boot from SD Card

In the process of having our VMware host boot devices live on SD card internal to blades vs. on SAN. In making the change I've been made aware of the following policies I need to create/modify:Local DiskSrubBootMy plan is to update our template, whi...

Power state on Chassis # is redundancy-failed

Hi,I know this error used to be common a while back, but I'm running 2.0(2q) with four apparently healthy PSUs per chassis in n+1 mode and consuming using less than 800 watts across four B200 M2 blades. Help?Thanks,Hamish

Unified Computing System Discussions

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Resolved! Vmware Snapshots

getting mac address from vnic0

UCS Central with signed SSL certificates

Resolved! UCS C-Series Call home

Resolved! Software RAID and harddrives visibility in CIMC inventory. I cannot see any of my 2 disks. Right or not?

UCS 240 Nic Teaming

Resolved! One of the two cluster FIs have a bootflash capacity-exceed warning

Expansion Hard Disk Vmware Esxi 5.1

ucs 10GB qos

UCSM showing below alert

Resolved! creating port-profile on n1kv but not showing in vcenter

About methods for collecting HW logs in the OS

UCS 5108 change number of network cards on B200-m3 server

Boot from SAN to boot from SD Card

Power state on Chassis # is redundancy-failed

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IO module POST failure

Configuring UEFI parameters for SAN Boot in UCS Central

CIMC vkvm won't start

UCSX setups in two sites for client

X Series Chassis & Blades

Can anyone SSH to UCS-FI-6536 Fabric Interconnects

Cisco Fabric Interconnect is showing six(6) Pmon Services as failed

what is the upgrade path for our current releases (4.0(1a) for UCSC-?

B200 M5 Blade Physically Stuck in Chassis

WWPN not showing on NPV flogi-table