DellEMC VxBlock – Cisco UCS Ethernet Adapter Policy
The following details the creation of a VxBlock Cisco UCS ‘Ethernet Adapter Policy’ for a compute B-Series blade running VMware ESXi. This policy is leveraged by a service-profile which gets […]
ViPR Controller – Ingest V(x)Block UCS Boot Volumes
The following provides guidance in a scenario where your ESXi host boots from SAN, for example this is the standard configuration for Cisco UCS blades included in a Vblock/VxBlock. These […]
Cisco UCS – Determining ESXi FNIC&ENIC via PowerCLI
The following script allows the user to retrieve a listing of Network (ENIC) & Storage (FNIC) firmware drivers installed on Cisco UCS blades at a per vSphere cluster level. You may download the ‘Cisco_FNIC_ENIC.ps1‘ script here: […]
CISCO UCS – Rebooting Fabric Interconnect(s)
Begin by connecting to the cluster IP over SSH and checking which FI is Primary/Subordinate: FI-A# show cluster state A: UP, PRIMARY B: UP, SUBORDINATE Note: show cluster extended-state will provide more detailed information. Having confirmed the ‘B’ fabric switch is the subordinate connect to FI-B mgmt cli interface: FI-A# connect local-mgmt B From FI-B local-mgmt interface issue the reboot […]
The Vblock vCake
Created by Cliff Cahill @CliffCahill In conjunction with the announcement of the ‘Vblock 740’ @VCE’s latest addition to the Vblock range Cliff kindly put his creative and baking skills to […]
Cisco UCS – Reinitialize FC Port Channel
Fabric Interconnect CLI: By connecting directly to the fabric interconnect you can quickly issue the following commands to Reinitialize (Disable&Enable) the specified FC Port Channel. Often this is required when […]
Cisco UCS – How to Query UCS for WWN’s Associated with Blades
These are very useful trick’s in order to obtain a list of WWN’s associated with the blades in a UCS environment. Instead of trawling through the GUI you can easily […]
