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
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
Problem You notice that your IO module in your Cisco UCS B series infrastructure throws the following error message: fabric-unsupported-conn Navigating to the faults tab of your IO module shows the following details: Affected object: sys/chassis-1/slot-2 <— note that this could be any chassis or
I had to update a Cisco UCS B series infrastructure two weeks ago from 1.3 to 1.4 and while going through the usual drill, I was prompted with the following warning message: The firmware of the following components cannot be updated because they are using
One of the projects I was involved in a month ago had several Cisco UCS C460 M1 servers that required a bare metal Windows Server 2008 install so as I began the process of installing the operating system, I also took the opportunity to screenshot
I was asked while ago to look at why a new Cisco UCS B-Series Infrastructure environment was lighting up like a Christmas tree. Eager to look at what the reason why, I logged on and long behold this is what I saw: As shown in
