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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 updating the firmware.  What I noticed was that no matter

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 from a Management IP Pool you’ve defined.  This definitely deserves

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 in UCS Manager may have problems getting to the proper

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 initial setup of the clustered Fabric Interconnects were pretty much

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 with keeping up with the “what’s new” or “what’s coming”

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 of the blade server’s local disk’s status stated as unknown:

—————————————————————————————————————————————————————– 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 Standalone Utilities https://blog.terenceluk.com/2011/01/updating-cisco-ucs-c-series-servers.html —————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Though the CIMC firmware upgrade process

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 available on October 26, 2010, they seemingly did not have

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 I spent a good half hour to be able to