As mentioned in my previous post about updating Cisco UCS C-Series server’s firmware with Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility, as an alternative, you can also use another package named: Server Standalone Host Utilities to update the firmware for the BIOS, CIMC and LOM. To start
I’ve been meaning to get the posts for updating Cisco UCS C-Series server firmware with: Server Configuration Utility Server Standalone Host Utilities … up for awhile but have been caught up with a lot of other projects but I’ve committed tonight to get both of
While it’s not a very complicated process to configure a virtual drive on a Cisco UCS C-Series server with a LSI MegaRAID controller, I noticed that I’ve been asked a few times about the process so I took a few screenshots for the purpose of
While troubleshooting an ESXi issue on a Cisco UCS C210 M2 server, I ran into several small annoying issues which ultimately had me reboot the CIMC via SSH and I thought it would be good to write a short post about it in case I
I was recently asked by a client about an error message he received when he tried to mount an ISO via the virtual media on one of his Cisco UCS C-Series server. The error message he would see is the following: The selected Virtual Media
One of the reasons why I like what I do an my position at the company is that whenever there’s any problems with a Cisco UCS B or C series servers, I’m one of the few who always get the email, call or IM about
I took a bit of time to think about what title I should give this post and while I’m sure no one is going to Google/Bing “Ops”, I figured someone might type in “deleted service profiles” and may end up finding this post. So without
I received a call from a colleague earlier last week about a problem updating the firmware for a new UCS B Series infrastructure that he was deploying. Just an hour ago I had showed him where to download the packages and how to FTP or
I ran into an issue a month ago while configuring a Cisco UCS C210 M2 server with a LSI MegaRAID controller where the mouse and keyboard would become non responsive as soon as I get into the WebBIOS utility. After hitting Ctrl-H in the screen
So I had quite the “kick off” on my first day back at work for the year 2011. To cut a long story short, I was asked to figure out why 3 of our UCS blades were knocked offline from vCenter and the rest of
