About a month or so ago, I was asked by a colleague if there were any issues with upgrading Exchange Server 2010’s Unified Message server from RTM to SP1 if Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM)
As per one of my previous posts, I updated a UCS’ firmware from 1.3(1c) to 1.3(1n) (See post here: https://blog.terenceluk.com/2010/10/updating-cisco-ucs-firmware-from-131c.html) as I needed to 2 blades from the chassis for a VIEW deployment. Before I
I ran into a problem last week while updating a Cisco UCS chassis and blade servers that I thought may be a common issue that other professionals may encounter. Basically what happened was once I
It’s been awhile since I had to update a Cisco UCS as I was on vacation when 2 projects needed to be delivered. Needless to say, I missed out on 2 deployments and was anxious
I wouldn’t say this was extremely interesting but wanted to write a short post to remind myself what was done in case I run into this again in the future. A client had ordered 2
One of the emails I sent out after completing my first firmware update: Some other notes worth mentioning during the firmware update: Updating Passive Fabric As per the document with instructions on how to update
Here’s an internal email I sent out to our UCS guys when I completed my first firmware update from 1.1(1l) to 1.2(1d): I just wanted to give you a heads up that I had a
I was out to a client’s site to close off a project with a list of items that I wrote down to completed. As 3:30p.m. came around the corner and everything was happily chugging along,
I had an extremely bad end to a work week last Friday when one issue lead to another and after accumulating multiple small issues, a UCS and VMware infrastructure that was happily chugging along fell
The following lists the steps required for configuring vNetwork Distributed Switches on a UCS with a Menlo card (2 NICs): 1. The New vNetwork Distributed Switch… option is always grayed out if you are not
