Problem I recently had an issue with a Cisco UCS 6120 fabric interconnect we received from RMA that would no longer boot properly and simply presents the loader prompt no matter how many times you restart it: Hitting the question mark ? would display the
I don’t usually deal with Cisco wireless controllers aside from setting AAA / RADIUS authentication but I was recently asked to complete the process of requesting a certificate from a public Certificate Authority to secure the web page sign-in page presented by a Cisco WLC
I’m not sure why I haven’t written a quick blog post demonstrating how to set up a Windows Server 2012 NPS (Network Policy Server) server to allow Cisco 4400 Series Wireless LAN Controller as a RADIUS client for authenticating users with Active Directory authentication so
Problem You’ve downloaded the Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility to perform a Windows Server install on a new Cisco UCS C220 M3 server but noticed that it hangs at the: Initializing the kernel… … for a long time and never continues ending with a black
As easy as it may seem to Cisco UCS administrators, I’ve found that people who are new to UCS typically run into bare metal Windows Server 2008 R2 installs on to Cisco UCS C Series servers. I’m writing this blog post because I received a
Problem You’ve recently updated your UCS infrastructure’s firmware to 2.0 or higher and noticed the following errors reported in the UCS Manager: VLAN default is error-misconfigured because of conflicting vlan-id with an fcoe-vlan Description: VLAN default is error-misconfigured because of conflicting vlan-id with an fcoe-vlan
I’ve been keeping a close eye on when Cisco was going to release their UCS B Series infrastructure 2.0 firmware ever since VMware released vSphere 5 as many customers wanted to know whether they could begin testing how stable the new hypervisor would run in
I recently had to update a new Cisco UCS C250 M1’s firmware to the latest version before it installing VMware ESXi and noticed that when I booted into the Host Based Upgrade package, it showed the CIMC and BIOS components as unsupported. I usually prefer
As some of you may have come across one of my previous posts earlier in the year: Updating Cisco UCS C-Series server’s firmware with Cisco UCS Server Standalone Utilities https://blog.terenceluk.com/2011/01/updating-cisco-ucs-c-series-servers.html … since it’s been quite some time since I’ve written another post for upgrading Cisco’s
I ran into an interesting error a few months ago while deploying a new Cisco UCS B series infrastructure with B200 M2 and B440 M1 blades. As some of you may know, there are Cisco packages of VMware ESXi 4.1 available for download but as
