Cisco UCS B200 M4Compatible with 2100 FEX in UCS 5108 chassis & FI 6100?

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• Configuring the Cisco UCS 5108 ports

  Hi all

  I'm new in the world of the Cisco UCS server and am setting up Cisco UCS 5108 blade server. The server has two Cisco UCS 6324 interconnections fabric I did the initial Setup on and I try to configure the ports for the blades. Looking through the various articles and tutorials after setting global policies, I see the whole world establishment of uplink and server ports. What I read the uplink ports are plugged directly into the switches (I work with two cisco nexus switches), and server ports are used to connect to the chassis.

  I wonder once the configured ports server what exactly are supposed to connect to? I assumed they would also connect to the switch nexus with the uplink ports. However, every time I set up the server ports and plug them in, the switch doesn't seem to have flooded and we lose all connectivity. If I unplug, the connection is restored almost immediately.

  The current configuration, that I work with is two ports uplink on each fabric interconnect (4 2 total in each switch of nexus), two server ports on each (4 2 total, in every nexus switch). The only other element connected to the nexus switches is a SAINT who will be configured as a boot and storage of the UCS 5108.

  Looks like you have a Mini UCS (6324), with 4-port 10 GB (each FI/IOM) with port QSFP 40 GB that can provide network connectivity linking rising, or if configured as a server port, could be used to connect to a server in a rack compatible Cisco UCS, or connect to a 5108 additional with IOM 2204XP chassis.  The blades installed in your initial 5108 chassis 6324 FI/IOM of housing have internal connectivity to the FIs / IOM without the need to configure ports 'server'...

  Please take a look at some of the visuals in the datasheet below.

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/UCS-6300-series-fabric-interconnects/datasheet-C78-732207.html

  Unified ports can also be configured as a FC ports for connectivity of FC switch upstream or directly related to CF Storage processors.

  After having watched the datasheet, let me know if you have any other questions, and I'll try to address them.

  You'll not need actually configure ports such as ports 'server' unless you connect servers in a rack.

  Please configure any ethernet SFP type connected to your switches nexus upstream as 'network' uplinks.  I guess that you don't plan on a disjoint config layer 2 (where each FI has several sets of uplinks will different devices upstream, or the same device with different VLANS allowed on each link).    If you are, we can have a separate thread about how you need to configure that.

  Thank you

  Kirk...

• Cisco UCS 5108 add NIC to ESXi host

  Hello

  I'm quite new in the world of the UCS, so I slowly read up on it. We currently have a laboratory with a 5108 that host two of our esxi5 servers. When I say lab, I mean a configuration that is not in production yet, and if I can use it to learn right now. I just now each server I create gives me only 2 network cards to work with, so I would like to add. I have attemtpted to add a new network adapter for the service model and apply it, but I get the following error.

  "There are not enough global resources. Not enough available vNIC.

  I don't know what I'm doing wrong or if 2 is my limit.

  Thank you

  Welcome to Dennis,

  The quantity of NICs you can create depending on the model of the adapter.

  E.g.

  See the diagram below for the virtual interfaces supported by the adapter model

  

  When you use the VIC M81 maximum interfaces that you create also depends on the number of links between IOM (chassis) and interconnections of fabric).  56 is assuming that you have 4 links of each fabric of interconnection of each IOM.

  In addition, blades of large width (B250, B440) can support two adapters mezz, so you can adjust the vnic/vhba max.

  Kind regards

  Robert

• Manually add a new vLan to the server blade in Cisco UCS 5108

  Hello

  I tried to add a new vLan to my chassie of server and then add the manulay on the blad server. The problem is that I can´t to connect to the network, what I introduced it in fabric switch? Anyone got a tip where to start troubleshooting?

  / T

  Hello

  You need SSH interconnection fabric (FI) and then change in context nxos

  Padma

• 2100 FEX with 6200 FI?

  Are there problems with the help of M81KR and 2100 FEX with 6200 FI?

  Roman, 6200 works with 2100 FEX and M81KR. It is supported by Cisco.

• VNX 5300 file shared storage - connect to Cisco UCS 6200 interconnection fabric

  Hello

  I'm designing a calculation and Shared Storage solution to help

  • EMC VNX 5300 shared storage
    • Block
    • File - sharing two Data Mover with i/o 10GE ports
  • Cisco UCS Blade Server Platform
    • Interconnection of Cisco UCS 6248 fabric
    • Chassis Cisco UCS 5108

  I have a question about where the connection Data movers with i/o 10GE ports. I connected to the 6248 UCS Cisco fabric interconnections or connect them to the switch IP network?

  kind is ok.

• Dell TL4000 Tape Library on Cisco UCS 6120

  Hello

  We have Cisco UCS 5108 2 6120XP fabric of interconnection. We are running VMware on my Cisco blades. I have I need to connect my Dell TL 4000 LTO3 tape library this Cisco UCS so that I can configure a virtual machine with the EMC Networker software for backup of virtual machine data. When I connect the Cisco UCS library, it does not recoginize as tape drive.

  Please suggest how to set up the same.

  Thank you

  Amit,

  We do not support direct damage attach FC tape library to the FI currently.

  It may be a CF or CF storage end switch.

  . / Afonso

• FCoE Multihop EMC VNX 5300 to Cisco UCS FI / Series Blade B

  Hi all

  Having a performance problem with FCoE multihop of UCS.

  The presentation is as follows:

  UCS 5108 chassis--> 6248UP FI--> pair of N5k (5548)--> 10gig FCoE EMC VNX 5300 2 x 2 port card

  Everything is functional - I can't ping from tissues to the pwwn EMC n5k cf.

  I can see the paths in vmware on the vhbas everything is in place and active. The VMware is set to round robin and the side EMC ALUA 4.

  I'm at a loss on how to solve it more. The SAN is connected to the fabric with om3 fiber LC + 10 GB SR SFP. UCS has a pair separated from fcoe port fabric channels k 5 down to YEW (the help of twinax cables). The data are separated on its OWN virtual machine. Essentially, I followed the guide from cisco on how to proceed:

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/products/ps9670/products_configuration_example09186a0080c13e92.shtml

  The hosts are not boot from SAN for now, they are started from storage USB flash on the blade.

  The show on the 5ks flogi shows all connected, and as I said before, I can see the LUNS on the blades. When howerver I try uplod a file ISO DIS 2.5 GB in size in a data store takes about 2 ½ hours.

  I have the most recent UC 2.1 (2) a firmware installed. The N5ks have NX - OS 6.x. The blades have ESXi 5.1 with the latest drivers enet and installed cisco fnic.

  The default qos for n5k is configured.

  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

  -Nick

  Hi Nick,

  Interesting observation. We have an IP hsrp in catalyst 4500 as a router for network management with ip redirects on a reason any. I have disabled ip forwarding as well and currently I do 30K iops with fabric RR double active path and no error in the CPNI on esxi logs.

  I'll have to do additional tests to see the weather, that it is a coincidence or a fix, by activating the ip redirects again. But it looks promising.

  As my e/s load is done with the network management of e/s generator (http://labs.vmware.com/flings/io-analyzer) should have no effect on the routed network FCOE...  He latest even came to my mind to check network Ethernet side.

  Thank you Nick for a great tip.

  concerning

  Mikko

• Cisco UCS components and software bug

  I was reading on the Cisco products affected by the vulnerability of software to the following Cisco Security Council

  http://Tools.Cisco.com/Security/Center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/CIS...

  I couldn't find if below products/components are affected by this problem... can someone confirm if these products/components are vulnerable to the software?

  Cisco UCS Manager

  Integrated management of Cisco (CIMC) controller

  Cisco UCS blade chassis

  TIA

  I agree that sentence is a bit off, note that the view talking affected _products_ (or not), not specific _components_ of a product.

  UCS seems to be off the hook. Not affected are:

  • Cisco UCS series B (blade) servers
  • Cisco UCS C-Series (Stand alone Rack) servers
  • Cisco UCS Central
  • Cisco UCS fabric of interconnections
  • Systems Cisco UCS Invicta series Solid State

  MMIC and UCSM would be part of the FI or B-or-C-series, etc.

• Cisco UCS B200 blade with installed vCenter

  Don't put the vCenter on one chassis 5108 blades and can control the ESXi hosts on the other blades? If this is the case, on the design, it's possible? Install the vCenter on a single blade with ESXi or ESXi?

  I ask this question because I have experience only having the vCenter as a separate machine whicn connects only to the network to control the ESXi hosts on 5108 chassis

  Thank you!

  as mentioned above, it is possible

  also the best design of practice in a certain measure, it is preferable to have VCenter in a virtual machine to take the advantage of using Vmotion HA for example features to reduce the risk of losing your vCenter because of HW faular for example

  You may have a blade for VCenter use in hunting and other blad for Vcenter backup for example hunting another!

  Good luck

  If useful rates

• Big problem with installing ESXi 5.5 on Cisco UCS M200 B3

  Hello

  I have a problem with installing esxi 5.5 on SDcard mounted in Cisco UCS B200 m3.

  ESXi Show map SD but when to start partitioning I question (attachment).

  If I install ESXi on HDD I don't see SDcard (even from the console).

  Thanks for any help

  h

  Marcel

  Hello

  Thanks for the reply but SDcard are clear. map of are new directly from Cisco.

  The good news is that I found a solution. I install the old version of ESXi (5.5 U1) and everything works fine

  Concerning

• Cisco UCS M81KR adapter is compatible with vSphere 5.5?

  Hello

  I can't find Cisco UCS M81KR adapter in the list of vSphere features 5.5 compatible hw. We vSphere 5.0 running on Cisco UCS B200 M2 blade with M81KR and are planning to upgrade to vSphere 5.5.

  Advice and suggestions will be greatly appreciated...

  Thank you!

  Hello

  It is supported by VMware HCL

  http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=10472&deviceCategory=io&keyword=m81&vioSolutions=Standard - IO devices & page = 1 & display_interval = 10 & sortColumn = partner & sortOrder = Asc

  Kind regards.

  Fred

• vFoglight with Cisco UCS

  Hello all,.
  We are looking for Cisco UCS for our ESX env. and I was wondering if someone was running vFoglight UCS and had problems.
  Or if someone of Quest/Vizioncore knows of any problem or future integration planned with UCS.

  Thank you
  Craig Dieck

  Craig, I know of many clients running the Cisco USC with VMware and they are very happy. There is no known issue with vFoglight perspective. VFoglight hardware monitoring currently able to extract any platform SNMP information. If you are looking for a vFoglgith to pull information from the physical ESX servers directly (not SNMP) you will need to ask for a discussion of the roadmap with your representative local of the quest.

  Inform the product manager for the platform you are using and what you want to be monitored and displayed...

• Cisco ucs with VMware 5 auto deploy

  Hello

  In our lab, I test with 5 VMware and Cisco UCS. We run UCSM 2.0 (1 m). I am now to test the auto hand deploy. I have auto configuration to deploy in VMware and it works (first of all, I had some problems with DHCP on windows which is solved in version 2.0 of UCSM (q)). vSphere gets deployed to the blade. When the blade (vShpere) wants to connect to vCenter I get an error of vCenter has enough licesing for this action. I loaded a lot of low-income VMware. When I create a virtual machine, it starts perfectly and apears in vCenter.

  I search on the internet for people who have the problem of the simailer, but could not find.

  Some body the same problem our help me?

  Thanks in advance,

  Robin

  Robin,

  This looks more like a VC related question (UCS) platform.  UCS has no effect on the functionality of licenses of the VC.

  If the host does not connect to the CR, how are you VMs to "start perfectly and appear in vCenter?

  Kind regards

  Robert

• How can Cisco ucs c220 m4 I start with 12g cisco sas controller? 2012 UEFI Server installation issues

  first time with cisco ucs c220 m4, check my photos

  You have a VD 11TB.

  Only way to start on this is by using UEFI.

  You need to activate UEFI in the boot order.

  Anything over 2 TB and more 4 K sector size readers require the UEFI boot option.

  BIOS will not process the VDs when manages UEFI.

  Kirk...

  Summary for those who seek a similar question:

  • Client a large VD created, 11TB
  • 2 TB and more, 4K sector drives, require boot UEFI + GPT, cannot use the legacy/MBR
  • To set startup to local HD option, that referenced the PCI-E Slot, the raid controller was in (HBA slot in this case)
  • UEFI mode, can't score a VD as "bootable disk / startup.
  • You will see not the VD/raid controller appear in the 'real' boot order during the OS install.
  • Once the installation of the OS compatible UEFI is made, it will create a UEFI boot to the operating system "Windows Boot Manager" entry in our case.
  • After the next reboot, if you check your boot order, you should see this UEFI OS boot manager entry.