Tag: Cisco
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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 ->…
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Memory Errors on Modern Servers
I used to see memory degrading on Cisco UCS blades. But less see on HPE blades. I thought it maybe quality control problem of Cisco manufacture. Today I read two articles in Cisco website, it explains why we see memory degrading and how it works. I attached the articles below. Managing Correctable Memory Errors on…
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Cisco UCS blade B200 M4 discovery pending on 58%
New B200 M4 blades can running on Intel v4 processors. You may see discovery issue if your UCSM firmware version lower than 2.2.7c. I hit that problem few days ago when I install a new M4 blade. The FSM hung on 58% a real long time and failed eventually.
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vRealize Operations Management Pack for Cisco UCS Review
Cisco UCS blade system is the best blade system I used so far. Whatever the hardware, software or support is perfect. I recommend leverage the system for primary system of virtualization. UCS blade system architecture is different with HP. I feel it more likes a network system. Fabric Interconnect (FI) modules exchange data between uplinks…
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Unexpected Failover on UCS Manager After Upgrade Firmware Version to 2.2.x
I noticed UCS Manager got unexpected failover after we upgraded firmware to 2.2(2c). Looks like it hits a bug CSCuo11700. Firmware should be upgraded to 2.2.(3a) to fix the issue.
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FC Traffic Drops After IOM Reset/Reseat/Cable Pull or UCS Upgrade
I just found a Cisco KB descripts a firmware issue may impact to ESXi FC storage performance. Please have a look whether your Cisco UCS system firmware is 2.1(2a), 2.1(2c), or 2.1(2d).
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PortChannel does not work on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
Whatever you configure on MDS, whatever you configure on Cisco UCS FIs, whatever you do for port channel on both side, the Cisco UCS uplink ports always down with error message Initilize failed, or Error disabled. Congratulation! your device hit MDS firmware bug…https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCtr01652/?reffering_site=dumpcr.
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Port Groups not Work with VLAN Tag on Cisco Switch
Few weeks ago, I tried to standardize networking of a cluster, there were 4 VLANs for production virtual machines, I binded the VLANs on one virtual switch which had 4 physical vmnic. Then I created 4 port groups with different VLAN ID, but for some reason virtual machines unreachable via some vmnics. Network team verified port channel…