Unified Computing System

I’ve been tackling a RAID issue on one of the new Cisco UCS C210 M2 servers we’re adding to our production environment and since I’ve ran out of options, I thought maybe I should try

I was told that one of the new features in UCS firmware version 1.4 was that you can now statically assign a CIMC management IP to the blades rather than having the IP randomly assigned

Yes, I know changing the admin password isn’t rocket science and it’s easy enough to do but what I noticed was that those who are not familiar with what you can left or right click

A colleague of mine recently had to quickly set up a new UCS B series chassis and since we were deploying the new B230 M1 blades, the chassis was actually shipped with UCSM 1.4(1a).  The

I was recently told by my practice lead that we need to update our internal UCS B series chassis firmware version to version 1.4 earlier in the month.  I have to say that I’m terrible

A few months ago, I was asked by a friend about a strange problem he encountered when working with Cisco’s UCS B-Series servers where navigating to a server’s Inventory –> Storage tab, he’ll see one

—————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Update: As this post only showed how to upgrade the firmware for CIMC, I’ve written two posts that shows up to upgrade the firmware with different packages available from Cisco: Server Configuration Utilityhttps://blog.terenceluk.com/2011/01/updating-cisco-ucs-c-series-server.html Server

I’ve been struggling with drawing out diagrams for a few Cisco UCS deployments as the stencils provided by Cisco did not appear to have all of the servers and when the new ones were made

I ran into a strange problem that stumped me for a good 30 minutes before I figured out what the issue was. What’s funny is that the problem was actually quite simple but seeing how