Running CUCM 8x/9x on Cisco UCS - Design

Hi,
I have a design question popping in my mind regarding running CUCM 8.X/9X on UCS.
Let us say that I have initially configured a CUCM Publisher and Subscriber to run on a Cisco UCS server using the VMware OVA Template that allows for 2500 IP Phones.
Both CUCM servers have been installed and setup using the specs from an OVA that allows 2500 IP Phones. Later, I decide to increase the capacity of the same hosts from 2500 IP Phones to support 7500 IP Phones.
Do I need to build up new CUCM servers using an OVA Template that allows 7500 IP Phones per server or do I modify the existing CUCM VMware host settings such as increase the RAM, HDD, etc.
Warm regards,
JK.

Check out the resize support:
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements#Resize_Virtual_Machine
Since the 2500 OVA have different storage requirements from the 7500 OVA you will need to rebuild the VM for full support.
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Virtualization_for_Cisco_Unified_Communications_Manager_(CUCM)#Version_9.1.28x.29
HTH,
Chris

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Welcome to this Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco UCS Troubleshooting Boot from SAN with FC and iSCSI with Vishal Mehta and Manuel Velasco.
The current industry trend is to use SAN (FC/FCoE/iSCSI) for booting operating systems instead of using local storage.
Boot from SAN offers many benefits, including:
Server without local storage can run cooler and use the extra space for other components.
Redeployment of servers caused by hardware failures becomes easier with boot from SAN servers.
SAN storage allows the administrator to use storage more efficiently.
Boot from SAN offers reliability because the user can access the boot disk through multiple paths, which protects the disk from being a single point of failure.
Cisco UCS takes away much of the complexity with its service profiles and associated boot policies to make boot from SAN deployment an easy task.
Vishal Mehta is a customer support engineer for Cisco’s Data Center Server Virtualization TAC team based in San Jose, California. He has been working in the TAC for the past three years with a primary focus on data center technologies such as Cisco Nexus 5000, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000v, and virtualization. He has presented at Cisco Live in Orlando 2013 and will present at Cisco Live Milan 2014 (BRKCOM-3003, BRKDCT-3444, and LABDCT-2333). He holds a master’s degree from Rutgers University in electrical and computer engineering and has CCIE certification (number 37139) in routing and switching and service provider.
Manuel Velasco is a customer support engineer for Cisco’s Data Center Server Virtualization TAC team based in San Jose, California. He has been working in the TAC for the past three years with a primary focus on data center technologies such as Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000v, and virtualization. Manuel holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and VMware VCP and CCNA certifications.
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Hello Evan
Thank you for asking this question. Most common TAC cases that we have seen on Boot-from-SAN failures are due to misconfiguration.
So our methodology is to verify configuration and troubleshoot from server to storage switches to storage array.
Before diving into troubleshooting, make sure there is clear understanding of this topology. This is very vital with any troubleshooting scenario. Know what devices you have and how they are connected, how many paths are connected, Switch/NPV mode and so on.
Always try to troubleshoot one path at a time and verify that the setup is in complaint with the SW/HW interop matrix tested by Cisco.
Step 1: Check at server
a. make sure to have uniform firmware version across all components of UCS
b. Verify if VSAN is created and FC uplinks are configured correctly. VSANs/FCoE-vlan should be unique per fabric
c. Verify at service profile level for configuration of vHBAs - vHBA per Fabric should have unique VSAN number
Note down the WWPN of your vhba. This will be needed in step 2 for zoning on the SAN switch and step 3 for LUN masking on the storage array.
d. verify if Boot Policy of the service profile is configured to Boot From SAN - the Boot Order and its parameters such as Lun ID and WWN are extremely important
e. finally at UCS CLI - verify the flogi of vHBAs (for NPV mode, command is (from nxos) – show npv flogi-table)
Step 2: Check at Storage Switch
a. Verify the mode (by default UCS is in FC end-host mode, so storage switch has to be in NPIV mode; unless UCS is in FC Switch mode)
b. Verify the switch port connecting to UCS is UP as an F-Port and is configured for correct VSAN
c. Check if both the initiator (Server) and the target (Storage) are logged into the fabric switch (command for MDS/N5k - show flogi database vsan X)
d. Once confirmed that initiator and target devices are logged into the fabric, query the name server to see if they have registered themselves correctly. (command - show fcns database vsan X)
e. Most important configuration to check on Storage Switch is the zoning
Zoning is basically access control for our initiator to targets. Most common design is to configure one zone per initiator and target.
Zoning will require you to configure a zone, put that zone into your current zonset, then ACTIVATE it. (command - show zoneset active vsan X)
Step 3: Check at Storage Array
When the Storage array logs into the SAN fabric, it queries the name server to see which devices it can communicate.
LUN masking is crucial step on Storage Array which gives particular host (server) access to specific LUN
Assuming that both the storage and initiator have FLOGI’d into the fabric and the zoning is correct (as per Step 1 & 2)
Following needs to be verified at Storage Array level
a. Are the wwpn of the initiators (vhba of the hosts) visible on the storage array?
b. If above is yes then Is LUN Masking applied?
c. What LUN number is presented to the host - this is the number that we see in Lun ID on the 'Boot Order' of Step 1
Below document has details and troubleshooting outputs:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/115764-ucs-san-tshoot-00.html
Hope this answers your question.
Thanks,
Vishal

Cisco UCS network uplink on aggregation layer

Hello Cisco Community,
we are using our UCS (Version 2.21d) for ESX Hosts. Each host has 3 vnics as follows:
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Actually UCS is connected to the Access Layer (Catalyst 6509) and we are migrating to Nexus (vPC). As you know, Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects can handle layer2 traffic itself. So we are planning to connect our UCS Fabric Interconnects directly to our new l3 nexus switch.
Does anyone have connect the UCS directly to l3? Do we have to pay attention to something? Are there some recommendations?
thanks in advance
best regards
/Danny

we are using ESXi 5.5 with dvswitche (distributed vswitch). In our cisco ucs powerworkshop, we discuss pros and contras of hard- and softwarefailover and we commit to use hardwarefailover. It is very fast and we have no problems actually.
This is a neverending and misunderstood story: your design should provide load balancing AND failover. Hardware failover only gives you the latter.In your design, you just use one fabric per Vlan, what a waste !
And think about the situation of a failover on a ESXi host with 200 VM's; one has to send out at least 200 GARP messages, and this is load on the FI CPU. Most likely dozens or more ESXi server are impacted......
Cisco best practise: if you use softswitch, let it do the loadbalancing and failover, don't use hardware failover.
see attachment (the paper is not up to date,
For ESX Server running vSwitch/DVS/Nexus 1000v and using Cisco UCS Manager Version 1.3 and below, it is recommended that fabric failover not be enabled, as that will require a chatty server for predictable failover. Instead, create regular vNICs and let the soft switch send
gARPs for VMs. vNICs should be assigned in pairs (Fabric A and B) so that both fabrics are utilized.
Cisco UCS version 1.4 has introduced the Fabric Sync feature, which enhances the fabric failover functionality for hypervisors as gARPs for VMs are sent out by the standby FI on failover. It does not necessarily reduce the number of vNICs as load sharing among the fabric is highly recommended. Also recommended is to keep the vNICs with fabric failover disabled, avoiding the use of the Fabric Sync feature in 1.4 for ESX based soft switches for quicker failover.

Cisco UCS Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Login Error

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Description:
CISCO UCS R2 MP (https://10.x.x.x/nuova) [CISCO.UCS.R2.Proxy.LoadCache.ProbeAction.vbs] : CISCO UCS Login Error: Authentication failed (Code: 551)
I noticed that it's looking for the /nuova directory, but in order to login to our UCS environment, we usually just go to the IP address - so I'm wondering if that has something to do with it? I've verified that when going directly to the IP from Internet Explorer I can login using the opsmgr credentials we specifically created for this account. I've also gone through the process of creating a run-as account on the SCOM side and associated it with the correct profiles.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

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I recently purchased a UCS C220 bundle, which includes a Cisco UCS RAID SAS 2008M-8i Mezzanine Card. I'm planning on deploying this as a standalone server running XenServer 6.2 in the near future.
I'm happy with the unit and testing is good, but for one aspect. The disk IO throughput on it seems to be far short of what I expected. I have a desktop PC with an Intel DZ77GA-70K motherboard as a lab spare, and the disk IO I can achieve from that server with the same disks exceeds what the C220 seems to be able to achieve, on a consistent repeatable basis.
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I have tried with SATA as well as a SAS drive, and the test results are also practically the same. All disks in all servers are Seagate 6.0 Gb/s units, and none of the servers are swapping to disk at any stage.
I am happy with network IO - I can completely saturate the 1G ports easily, and I'm convinced that's not a part of the problem here.
What could cause this sort of performance? Storage card logs in CIMC don't indicate anything is wrong and none of the OS's are indicating issues of any sort, but it certainly does seem something isn't right in that I'm getting significantly superior performance from a desktop motherboard and the MicroServer, than an enterprise grade server, when testing with the exact same hard drives.
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- What sort of performance should I expect out of this card on a single sequential read or write?
- Can this RAID card run drives just as JBOD's or do all disks have to be initialised in an array (even if just a RAID0 array with 1 disk)? It seems if they are added to the server they do not show up to any OS until they are initialised as part of an array, although I haven't delved into the BIOS settings of the card itself (only from CIMC so far).
- I recall seeing something about best practice of having two virtual drives on these cards, what is the impact in running more, given the card certainly allows more to be created (I currently have 4 while I am testing)
- I noticed on Cacti graphs while rebuilding a RAID1 array that the CPU ran hotter while the array was being rebuilt, and cooled down once the rebuild had completed, which indicates the rebuild was using up CPU on the host hardware. Should this not have been entirely transparent to the system if the RAID activity is offloaded to this card, or is an increase in CPU to be expected?
I'm very keen to find out others experiences of this card, what people have done to get good throughput out of it, or if I should go back to a whitebox server with an Intel board :-)
Thanks,
Reuben

Hello Reuben,
I reached out to colleagues who are more knowledge on this topic and here is their response.
- Is the 2008M-8i card considered a low-end RAID card or should I be getting reasonable throughput from it? I was anticipating performance at least as good as a desktop motherboard, but this doesn't seem to be the case. The RAID card as a component is more expensive than an entire MicroServer or Intel Motherboard so it should run much better, yes? -
2008M-8i card is a entry/value card with an expected performance which is better than a software RAID. This card doesn’t utilise memory in a standard RAID 0/1 configuration.
- What sort of performance should I expect out of this card on a single sequential read or write? - We should expect around 1GB sequential read (refer link http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/unified-computing/whitepaper_c11-728200.html)
- Can this RAID card run drives just as JBOD's or do all disks have to be initialised in an array (even if just a RAID0 array with 1 disk)? It seems if they are added to the server they do not show up to any OS until they are initialised as part of an array, although I haven't delved into the BIOS settings of the card itself (only from CIMC so far). -
This card can be used in JBOD mode. To enable JBOD mode you need to use MegaCLI commands. This option is not present as a default configuration.
Please note: Once we enable the JBOD mode – it cannot be reverted back to the default RAID mode setting.
- I recall seeing something about best practice of having two virtual drives on these cards, what is the impact in running more, given the card certainly allows more to be created (I currently have 4 while I am testing) -
This doesn’t apply for this card as it does not have any cache. Can you please point us to the document about best practice of having two virtual drives ?
- I noticed on Cacti graphs while rebuilding a RAID1 array that the CPU ran hotter while the array was being rebuilt, and cooled down once the rebuild had completed, which indicates the rebuild was using up CPU on the host hardware. Should this not have been entirely transparent to the system if the RAID activity is offloaded to this card, or is an increase in CPU to be expected? - Creating/Deleting/Modifying a RAID volume is a CPU independent operation.

Cisco UCS C220-M3 Server doesn't boot after adding Intel I350 Quad Port NIC

Hello,
We have purchased 2 Cisco UCS C220-M3 rack mounted servers (Single Processor) that have a dual port I350 LOM. We also purchased two Intel I350 Quad Port NICs to expand the available ports on each server from 2 to 6.
The problem we are facing is that the server will not complete the boot process unless we disable either the LOM or the Quad Port NIC. We have tried numerous settings in the BIOS area but we haven't managed to have them both working.
The I350 Quad Port NICs are from Intel and not from Cisco and we are running the latest FW/BIOS on the Servers as of March 10 2015.
We have followed the steps described in the installation guide to install them.
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P.S. Although the LOMs are I350, the MAC Address Vendor is Cisco, is it possible that Cisco servers accept only Cisco Branded Expansion Cards?
Thank you,
George

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At least I'm not the only one having the same problem!
You are trying to use the cards with the LOMs enabled?
Which screen are you referring to in the first paragraph of your message?
Mine sits in BIOS POST for about 10 minutes and then resets itself....
We are also waiting for an answer from Cisco, so any findings/news will be posted here.
Thanks,
George

Oracle 11g - Solaris 10 on cisco UCS server

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Jonathan,
there's a dedicated Oracle database forum (Database) where you can post your issue. In this forum here only 3rd party to Oracle migrations using the Oracle tools migration workbench or SQL Developer will be covered. As I can't move your thread, please close this one here and post your issue again in the database forum.
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Can anyone help me where i can attend the following Training for (( Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) 5.0 )) as i can not find a schedual in CISCO training locator .. It is highly important for me as i have an implementation soon and i need to get its knowledge .
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Mostafa,
I think you'll have a little problem getting this running. There is huge interest in this topic but to be fair, Cisco has only just now (the past two weeks) released the 5.0 course materials to the instructors. So far as I know, me and two other instructors are the only instructors in Europe which are both certified to teach this class as well as actually have hands on experience with Director. In addition, we can't as instructors get our hands on the actual product outside of dCloud to actually update our knowledge for v5.0 because of the insanely stupid terms involved.
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Any info will be extremly appreciated.
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You've answered your own question in the first sentence.
To recap: OS X is licensed only on Apple-branded hardware. Cisco-branded hardware is not Apple-branded hardware. Therefore, OS X is not licensed on Cisco-branded hardware.

Can I add my cisco UCS to my cisco prime 2.0?

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Question
Can I add my Cisco UCS to my Cisco prime 2.0?

Out of the box, PI won't do much with a UCS server other than tell you it replies to a ping.
It's not really designed to manage UCS servers - DCNM and/or UCS Director are the tools for that.
You could load the UCS server SNMP MIBs and setup some custom queries using that but it'd be more trouble than it's worth in my opinion.
Here's a link to the page showing supported devices for PI.

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Hello there,
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If I have a UCS C240 M4 rack server with Cisco UCS VIC1227 VIC MLOM - Dual Port 10Gb SFP+, but do not have fabric interconnect(s), I cannot use the UCS VIC1227 for anything, can I? The VIC ports HAVE to be connected to the FI(s) in order to be integrated with the UCS Manager. There is no local UCS manager software running on the server itself, is there?
It is useless to have this card in the server without the FI(s), isn’t it?
The OS that is going to be installed on the server is not going to see those 10GB ports on the VIC, isn’t it?
And if there are no additional PCIe NICs installed in the server, I am stuck with the two 1GB onboard NICs, is that correct?
Any input is appreciated.

do not have fabric interconnect(s), I cannot use the UCS VIC1227 for anything, can I?
The VIC 1227 can be used to integrate the server with UCSM, but that does NOT mean that is its unique function... the VIC 1227 is a CNA card that can be used whether your server is in standalone mode (no Fabric Interconnects) or integrated with UCSM.
If the server is not connected to a Fabric Interconnect (FI), it still has CIMC (Cisco Integrated Management Controller) which can be configured by attaching a monitor to the server and a keyboard, press F8 when you see the Cisco logo and then you can configure the IP, subnet, gateway, NIC mode and others... this may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHQBvwO7pUU
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/e/1-0/gs/guide/b_Getting_Started_Guide/b_Getting_Started_Guide_chapter_0101.html#task_3F8535D6A9574BCD806B25FEBF44615D
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c200-m1-high-density-rack-mount-server/111455-setup-cimc-c-series.html <<< Little old but still helps.
It is useless to have this card in the server without the FI(s), isn’t it?
It is NOT useless to have the card in the server without the FIs, having the servers integrated only allows you to take advantage of the flexibility of Service Profiles but the VIC card still has the same capabilities whether you have an FI or not.
The OS that is going to be installed on the server is not going to see those 10GB ports on the VIC, isn’t it?
See above
And if there are no additional PCIe NICs installed in the server, I am stuck with the two 1GB onboard NICs, is that correct?
Same answer as above
Let me know if you have further questions. IF I covered everything, please mark the question as "answered" for future users with the same doubts.
-Kenny

Support for USB/Serial GSM Modem on Cisco UCS Bladeserver

We have an existing Nagios virtual machine running on ESXi 4.1 rackmount server with an attached GSM modem for sending out SMS alerts.
Looking to migrate the virtual machine to a ESXi 5.1 cluster running on Cisco UCS bladeservers.
Will the Cisco B230 M2 or B440 M2 bladeservers be able to support passthrough of USB/serial GSM modem to the virtual machine by using the below physical connection:
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Can anyone from Cisco confirm this?

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I have inherited a Cisco UCS C220 M3 in the lab at work and am trying to get it working. I'm logged in to CIMC but when I launch the KVM my browser just downloads a file:
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Following advice in other threads I have update Java and cleared the cache etc. and reset CIMC and rebooted the server,
I have Java Version 8 Update 25 and have associated .jnlp file extension with Java Web Start Launcher, all with no success.
Any suggestions for what I can do?
Further tinkering, ( http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c220-m3-rack-server/116034-ucsrack-resolve-kvm-00.html ) I now get the message in the attached image.
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