I’m still trying to catch up with the items on my “to blog” list and lately I’ve been asked about configuring Cisco UCS B Series Infrastructure’s UCS Manager to authenticate with Active Directory & LDAP accounts and since I documented the process a few months
It’s been awhile since I’ve had the time to write a blog post as I’m still going through a move from Canada to Bermuda but I recently ran into a small problem that I thought was worth spending a bit of my time after work
I find the following problem to be one of the most common questions I get asked when someone is trying to configure VMware IPMI/iLO Settings for Power Management with Cisco UCS B Series blade servers so while the reason for this error would appear to
I was recently asked whether the management IP address of a Cisco UCS B Series blade change when you disassociate a service profile from it and as much as I have been working with these B Series infrastructure, I didn’t know the answer off the
I received an email from a client who was trying to install Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit on a Cisco UCS B Series B230 blade with the following error message during the install: A problem exists with the .SIF file on the manufacturer-supplied disk: “Illegal
For those who have seen my previous post about testing standby mode, I noticed something odd happening in the UCS B Series infrastructure environment I used to generate the screenshots and I thought might be worthwhile to write a post about it. What happened was
For those who have set up LDAP authentication against Active Directory for UCS Manager 1.4.x, you may have noticed that there’s a discrepancy between the screenshots and CLI output provided in the configuration guide: CAE 1.4.1 UCS LDAP and Multiple Authentication Server Configuration As shown
Another blogger: Peter Cronwright posted in my earlier post: VMware ESXi 4.1.0 stuck at “Initializing scheduler …” screen on boot up with Cisco UCS C210 M2 servers https://blog.terenceluk.com/2010/11/vmware-esxi-410-stuck-at-initializing.html … that the latest UCS 1.4(1m) firmware package that was released on March 1st, 2011 for the
This post won’t be like the step-by-step or how-to posts I usually write but rather something I can reference to if I ever need to update a component’s firmware within a Cisco UCS B Series Infrastructure. The guide to use to find all the CLI
I ran into an interesting problem the other day while configuring two 6120XP fabric interconnects for a new cluster where joining the second fabric interconnect to the cluster would continuously fail. While the error message I encountered may not specifically apply to the problem I
