Cisco UCS Blades and vSphere DPM

I followed this guide:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-8582
And it worked, but I have 2 problems.
1) The blade being put into Standby starts back up immediately - almost like a reboot -
and doesn't stay in Standby mode
2) The Blade being put into Standby mode has Faults on all vFabric's etc because it is
"off"
Any suggestions?
Jim

Hi Rob and Jim,
How did you guys progress with this one? I am having the same issue and be interested to know the solution.
My environment is vSphere 5.0 with B230 M2 and DPM is not yet enabled. UCS Manager and CIMC are running 2.0(1s).
On testing for Standby from the vSphere client, the blade reboots automatically (no power down). A shutdown command gives the same result (which is a reboot) with a host connection failure alert.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Noli

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I was reading about Cisco products affected by heartbleed vulnerability at following Cisco security advisory
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20140409-heartbleed#@ID
I couldn't find whether below products/components are affected by this vulnerability.. can someone confirm if these products/components are vulnerable to heartbleed?
Cisco UCS Manager
Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC)
Cisco UCS Blade Chassis
tia

I agree that phrasing is a bit off, note that the notice is talking about _products_ affected (or not), not particular _components_ of a product.
UCS seems to be off the hook. Not affected are:
Cisco UCS B-Series (Blade) Servers
Cisco UCS C-Series (Stand alone Rack) Servers
Cisco UCS Central
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
Cisco UCS Invicta Series Solid State Systems
CIMC and UCSM would be part of FI or B-or-C-series, etc.

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Dear all,
Is it possbile to deploy cisco UCS blade solution with only Blade Chassis, FI, FEX/IOM and using third party SAN and LAN switch ?
Thanks

Yes of course !
There are many installations with e.g. Brocade FC switches
The only caveat I see: are your uplink ethernet switches 1G or 10G; technically either one will work, however, with 1 G Northbound connectivity, some data flows are limited in bandwidth. see below

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give it a try. - IT WORKED.
So to sum up, the solution was to change the type of command being executed in the "Post Install -> Inject Drivers" step of the task sequence. After this change, the machine came up and continued the task sequence with no further issues.
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see
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Hi Walter,
Thanks for the your time...& info...
What is the best recommended possible way ?
Even with the possible failover scenario i explained ...I don't think so that is also a full pledge one.
For example...If i am running the Esxi 5.5 of enterprise edition is running on one of the blades...the vswitch configuration of each blade would be different?
LUN cloning to the spare blade is mandate right ? then only i can move the particular blade & its profile on to spare blade along with OS ?
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All other fields return correctly for Serial Number, etc... but not UUID. UUID returns: "undefined, but settable". Is this an ESXi and UCS problem?
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Jason

This was helpful.... esxcfg-info | grep UUID and is getting further.
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Hello everyone
I am confused about how works the integration between N1K and UCS Manager:
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If two VMs on different ESXi and different VEM but in the same VLAN,would like to talk each other, the data flow between them is managed from the upstream switch( in this case UCS Fabric Inteconnect), isn'it?
I created a Ethernet uplink port-profile on N1K in switch port mode access(100), I created a vEthernet port-profile for the VM in switchport mode access(100) as well. In the Fabric Interconnect I created a vNIC profile for the physical NICs of ESXi(where there are the VMs). Also I created the vlan 100(the same in N1K)
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This document may help...
Best Practices in Deploying Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches on Cisco UCS B and C Series Cisco UCS Manager Servers
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9902/white_paper_c11-558242.html
If two VMs on different ESXi and different VEM but in the same VLAN,would like to talk each other, the data flow between them is managed from the upstream switch( in this case UCS Fabric Inteconnect), isn'it?
-Yes. Each ESX host with the VEM will have one or more dedicated NICs for the VEMs to communicate with the upstream network. These would be your 'type ethernet' port-profiles. The ustream network would need to bridge the vlan between the two physicall nics.
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- The N1K port profiles are switchport access making them untagged. This would be the native vlan in ucs. If there is no native vlan in the UCS configuration, we do not have the upstream networking bridging the vlan.
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PDI Helpdesk
http://www.cisco.com/go/pdihelpdesk

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Josue,
I would like to know what server model you are using and if the ESXi version you installed is the customized Cisco ESXi version?
I bet this is a new installation... It looks like the server does not see an image to boot from, even though it looks like the boot policy actually points to the local disks, but I have also seen how weird things happen when the non-Customized ESXi .iso image is used.
Try to use the customized version found here ;
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CISCO-ESXI-5.1.0-GA-25SEP2012&productId=285
And check compatibility with one of my favorite tools:
http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html
I hope this helps you, if it did, rate it!
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Cisco UCS

Looking for a Design Guide where I can see how exactly design and configure Cisco UCS Blade Series Servers with (2) 2200 IOMs to Fabric Interconnects. I like to see how Fabric Interconnects connect to Cisco FEXs.
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As I understand correctly, Fabric Interconnects itself have may server ports that connect down to Chassis IOMs. Trying to understand how Server Ports on Fabric Interconnects can work inconjuction with Cisco FEXs.

Hi Abbasali,
Cisco FEXes in UCS are use for C-Series server integrations. You won't be able use the FEXes to expand the number of ports on your fabric interconnect.
C-Series integration documentation below
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c-series_integration/ucsm2-1/b_UCSM2-1_C-Integration/b_UCSM2-1_C-Integration_chapter_01.html
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Oracle 11g - Solaris 10 on cisco UCS server

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Jonathan,
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Carlton

Carlton,
I am pretty sure this post (3 in total) from Jeremy Waldrop's blog (Jeremy usually visits this community too) will help explain UCS Director: http://jeremywaldrop.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/cisco-ucs-director-part-1/
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Can someone provide me details of Vsphere/ESXi 5.0 update 2 iso for Cisco Blade and Rackmount Servers.
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Deepak,
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Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn and ask questions about related to the initial setup of UCS C & B Series which include LAN connectivity from the UCS perspective with Cisco subject matter expert Kenny Perez.
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Actually we have UCS 6248 fabric interconnect - first twelve ports are enabled and same in Cisco UCS Manager.
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