Show CDP Neighbor of Cisco UCS Uplinks

There are two ways to know which network switch ports the network uplinks of Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects are connected to. By CLI SSH to the Cisco UCS Manager. Connect to FI-A. # connect nxos a Show neighbor of network uplinks. # show cdp neighbor interface ethernet <port num> By PowerShell Make sure Cisco PowerTool … Read more

A Huge Amount of Warnings of “Image is Deleted” in Cisco UCS Manager

A few days ago, I deleted some older firmware packages in Cisco UCS Manager. Suddenly more than 100 warnings were generated. The error messages are similar below: blade-controller image with vendor Cisco System Inc……is deleted Cause: image-deleted Clearly, it’s triggered due to packages deletion. But all of my service profiles and service profile templates were … Read more

Install LXC on CentOS 7 Minimal Version

Some notes for LXC. CentOS 7 minimal version doesn’t support LXC installation by default since LXC is deprecated in version 7. The new container solution is based on docker framework. There is an alternative to install LXC. Following are procedures: Install Epel (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository. # yum install epel-release Install some dependencies. … Read more

Cannot Open KVM Virtual Machine Manager on CentOS 7

I got following error message when I try to run KVM Virtual Machine Manager: virt-manager on SSH. Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: There are several things need to be checked: Make sure “X11Forwarding” is set to “yes” in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the machine you run virt-manager. cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep “^X11” If you are using Windows to … Read more

Cisco UCS Blade Cannot Get IP Address for KVM

You may see “The IP address to reach the server is not set” when clicking the KVM console in Cisco UCS Manager. The issue persists even Cisco UCS Manager has enough IP addresses for management. Re-acknowledge or reset CIMC cannot fix the problem. The fix procedure is go to “Equipment” -> Select the server -> … Read more

How to Specific Allowed IP Addresses in ESXi Firewall by PowerCLI

In recent LAB environment reviewing, I noticed my LAB ESXi hosts allow connections from all IP address for NTP services. This is not the best practices for the solid environment. I want to specify certain IP addresses are allowed in case of vulnerabilities in NTP services. There are a lot of blogs talking about how … Read more