VMQ on C220?

Hi, does the C220 support VMQ? We are seeing performance issues on a Windows 2012 Hyper-V host where VMQ is default enabled and suspect that lack of VMQ support might be the reason for it.
Regards

Hi Andreas
I understand; if you read the doc about c-series server, mananged by UCSM, you see the following p 287ff
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/cli/config/guide/2-2/b_UCSM_CLI_Configuration_Guide_2_2.pdf
- If you want to configure the VMQ vNIC on a service profile for a server, at least one adapter in the server must support VMQ. Make sure the servers have at least one the following adapters installed:• UCSC-PCIE-CSC-02 (this is the VIC-1225)
- When a VMQ vNIC is configured on service profile, make sure you have the following settings:
• Select SRIOV in the BIOS policy.
• Select Windows in the Adapter policy.
- Create a VMQ connection policy:
UCS-A# scope org
UCS-A /org # create vmq-conn-policy policy name
UCS-A /org/vmq-conn-policy* # set queue-count queue count (number)
UCS-A /org/vmq-conn-policy* # set interrupt-count queue count (number)
UCS-A /org/vmq-conn-policy* # commit-buffer
I don't have a server at this moment to test; I assume (hope), that CIMC of a standalone server should allow you to do the same commands.
Walter.

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We’ve a problem with the new server UCS C220.
We bought two servers UCS C220 M3 for CallManager 8.6 with High Availability.
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regards

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Hyper-V LBFO Teaming VMQ RSS-settings

Hi,
We are running a six host Hyper-V Cluster on 2012 R2 Core machines. Since the environment was set up we have been receiving the following error:
Source: Hyper-V-VmSwitch
Event ID: 106
Description: Available processor sets of the underlying physical NICs belonging to the LBFO team on switch [GUID] (Friendly Name: VMNet Logical Switch are not configured correctly. Reason: The processor sets overlap when LBFO is configured with sum-queue
mode.
The error pertains to the LBFO-team for our VM-Networks that was created automatically by SCVMM after joining the two NIC:s into a logical switch. After reading the MS documentation on Server 2012 teaming - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=30160)
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The team is SwitchIndependent, Active-Active with HyperVPort as LBA. Our hosts have 32 logical cores therefore i ran the following commands:
Set-NetAdapterRss -name VMNet01 -BaseProcessorNumber 2 -MaxProcessorNumber 16 (Leaving out CPU core 0 and 1 for system processing as per recommendations)
Set-NetAdapterRss -name VMNet02 -BaseProcessorNumber 17 -MaxProcessorNumber 31
(I did not run any commands on the Logical Switch itself)
Which would give each NIC 15 cores each to use for VMQ. After that configuration was made and I rebooted the server i receive a different error upon boot:
Source: Hyper-V-VmSwitch
Event ID: 15
Description: Failed to restore configuration for port Properties (Friendly Name: ) on switch [GUID] (Friendly Name: ), status = Object Name not found.
Where [GUID] is the GUID of the Hyper-V-switch and the Friendly name of that Switch is blank (instead of saying VMNetLogical Switch) as before. I have tried removing the switch and adding it again (destroying and recreating the team). But the issue persists.
Any ideas on how to fix this? Might this just be a "cosmetic flaw" or is it something I should get in order before putting this host back in to our production environment?
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Name : VMnet Logical Switch
InterfaceDescription: Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor Driver
Enabled: True
NumberOfReceiveQueues: 0
Profile: NUMAStatic
BaseProcessor: [Group:Number] : 0:0
MaxProcessor: [Group:Number] : 0:30
MaxProcessors : 4
RssProcessorArray: [Group:Number/NUMA Distance] :
0:0/0 0:2/0 0:4/0 0:6/0
0:8/0 0:10/0 0:12/0 0:14/0
0:16/0 0:18/0 0:20/0
0:22/0 0:24/0 0:26/0
0:28/0 0:30/0
IndirectionTable: [Group:Number] :
Name : VMNet01
InterfaceDescription: HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB Adapter #106
Enabled: True
NumberOfReceiveQueues: 8
Profile :
BaseProcessor: [Group:Number] : :2
MaxProcessor: [Group:Number]: :16
MaxProcessors : 16
RssProcessorArray: [Group:Number/NUMA Distance] :
IndirectionTable: [Group:Number]:
Name : VMNet02
InterfaceDescription: HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB Adapter #107
Enabled : True
NumberOfReceiveQueues : 8
Profile:
BaseProcessor: [Group:Number] : :17
MaxProcessor: [Group:Number] : :31
MaxProcessors : 16
RssProcessorArray: [Group:Number/NUMA Distance] :
IndirectionTable: [Group:Number] :

Caption : MSFT_NetAdapterVmqSettingData 'HP
FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB
Adapter #106'
Description : HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB
Adapter #106
ElementName : HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB
Adapter #106
InstanceID : {DDF16911-57A4-4F36-B919-F28237002030
InterfaceDescription : HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB
Adapter #106
Name : VMNet01
Source : 2
SystemName : asrhv06.*.local
AnyVlanSupported :
BaseProcessorGroup : 0
BaseProcessorNumber : 2
DynamicProcessorAffinityChangeSupported :
Enabled : True
InterruptVectorCoalescingSupported :
LookaheadSplitSupported : False
MaxLookaheadSplitSize : 0
MaxProcessorNumber : 16
MaxProcessors : 16
MinLookaheadSplitSize : 0
NumaNode :
NumberOfReceiveQueues : 15
NumMacAddressesPerPort : 0
NumVlansPerPort : 0
TotalNumberOfMacAddresses : 15
VlanFilteringSupported : True
PSComputerName :
ifAlias : VMNet01
InterfaceAlias : VMNet01
ifDesc : HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB
Adapter #106
Caption : MSFT_NetAdapterVmqSettingData 'HP
FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB
Adapter #107'
Description : HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB
Adapter #107
ElementName : HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB
Adapter #107
InstanceID : {94BFD5DC-6D42-4B4B-82EA-0D724C3A36E1
InterfaceDescription : HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB
Adapter #107
Name : VMNet02
Source : 2
SystemName : asrhv06.*.local
AnyVlanSupported :
BaseProcessorGroup : 0
BaseProcessorNumber : 17
DynamicProcessorAffinityChangeSupported :
Enabled : True
InterruptVectorCoalescingSupported :
LookaheadSplitSupported : False
MaxLookaheadSplitSize : 0
MaxProcessorNumber : 31
MaxProcessors : 16
MinLookaheadSplitSize : 0
NumaNode :
NumberOfReceiveQueues : 15
NumMacAddressesPerPort : 0
NumVlansPerPort : 0
TotalNumberOfMacAddresses : 15
VlanFilteringSupported : True
PSComputerName :
ifAlias : VMNet02
InterfaceAlias : VMNet02
ifDesc : HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB
Adapter #107
Caption : MSFT_NetAdapterVmqSettingData
'Microsoft Network Adapter
Multiplexor Driver'
Description : Microsoft Network Adapter
Multiplexor Driver
ElementName : Microsoft Network Adapter
Multiplexor Driver
InstanceID : {28148EF9-CACD-4DC8-ABAC-AA9150361DED
InterfaceDescription : Microsoft Network Adapter
Multiplexor Driver
Name : VMnet Logical Switch
Source : 2
SystemName : asrhv06.*.local
AnyVlanSupported :
BaseProcessorGroup : 0
BaseProcessorNumber : 0
DynamicProcessorAffinityChangeSupported :
Enabled : True
InterruptVectorCoalescingSupported :
LookaheadSplitSupported : False
MaxLookaheadSplitSize : 0
MaxProcessorNumber :
MaxProcessors :
MinLookaheadSplitSize : 0
NumaNode :
NumberOfReceiveQueues : 30
NumMacAddressesPerPort : 0
NumVlansPerPort : 0
TotalNumberOfMacAddresses : 30
VlanFilteringSupported : True
PSComputerName :
ifAlias : VMnet Logical Switch
InterfaceAlias : VMnet Logical Switch
ifDesc : Microsoft Network Adapter
Multiplexor Driver

Hyper-V - What is the correct VMQ Adapter Setting

Hello all, I'm setting up three Win2012R2 servers as a three node hyper-v cluster. I'm using converged networking and am using 4 nics; 2 nics will be for an infrastructure nic team that supports Management, Cluster, Live Migration, and the guest
OSes. The other 2 nics will be used for a storage connection. After the 2 infrastructure nics are teamed, I want to set up the correct vmq settings on each of the two network adapters based on the processors that are in the server. I
have two 6-core processors in each server giving 24 logical processors. To prevent overlap in the processors that the vmq's will use, is this the best configuration?
set-netadaptervmq NIC1 -baseprocessornumber 2 -maxprocessors 6
set-netadaptervmq NIC2 - baseprocessornumber 14 -maxprocessors 6
Any feedback appreciated. Thanks.

I have the same setup.
Until I assign -baseprocessornumber 0 (vs 2) maxprocessors 6 the system will not utilize VMQ.
I receive the following error:
Failed to allocate VMQ for NIC 13DADF6A-8BFF-4648-A10E-D52BA691F126--D08CC85B-D4BD-4BC0-9D17-F70D6F1E01F4 (Friendly Name: Network Adapter) on switch B54E0E56-17D0-4468-8252-F315AA32CF16 (Friendly Name: VM). Reason - The OID failed. Status = An invalid parameter
was passed to a service or function.
Upon changing baseproc to 0, the VMQ's are utilized, but I receive a proc overlap error.
I am using Brocade 10G adapters with the latest drivers.
I have had a ticket open with MSFT for many months.

VMQ issues with NIC Teaming

Hi All
Apologies if this is a long one but I thought the more information I can provide the better.
We have recently designed and built a new Hyper-V environment for a client, utilising Windows Server R2 / System Centre 2012 R2 however since putting it into production, we are now seeing problems with Virtual Machine Queues. These manifest themselves as
either very high latency inside virtual machines (we’re talking 200 – 400 mSec round trip times), packet loss or complete connectivity loss for VMs. Not all VMs are affected however the problem does manifest itself on all hosts. I am aware of these issues
having cropped up in the past with Broadcom NICs.
I'll give you a little bit of background into the problem...
Frist, the environment is based entirely on Dell hardware (Equallogic Storage, PowerConnect Switching and PE R720 VM Hosts). this environment was based on Server 2012 and a decision was taken to bring this up to speed to R2. This was due to a number
of quite compelling reasons, mainly surrounding reliability. The core virtualisation infrastructure consists of four VM hosts in a Hyper-V Cluster.
Prior to the redesign, each VM host had 12 NICs installed:
Quad port on-board Broadcom 5720 daughter card: Two NICs assigned to a host management team whilst the other two NICs in the same adapter formed a Live Migration / Cluster heartbeat team, to which a VM switch was connected with two vNICs exposed to the
management OS. Latest drivers and firmware installed. The Converged Fabric team here was configured in LACP Address Hash (Min Queues mode), each NIC having the same two processor cores assigned. The management team is identically configured.
Two additional Intel i350 quad port NICs: 4 NICs teamed for the production VM Switch uplink and 4 for iSCSI MPIO. Latest drivers and firmware. The VM Switch team spans both physical NICs to provide some level of NIC level fault tolerance, whilst the remaining
4 NICs for ISCSI MPIO are also balanced across the two NICs for the same reasons.
The initial driver for upgrading was that we were once again seeing issues with VMQ in the old design with the converged fabric design. The two vNics in the management OS for each of these networks were tagged to specific VLANs (that were obviously accessible
to the same designated NICs in each of the VM hosts).
In this setup, a similar issue was being experienced to our present issue. Once again, the Converged Fabric vNICs in the Host OS would on occasion, either lose connectivity or exhibit very high round trip times and packet loss. This seemed to correlate with
a significant increase in bandwidth through the converged fabric, such as when initiating a Live Migration and would then affect both vNICS connectivity. This would cause packet loss / connectivity loss for both the Live Migration and Cluster Heartbeat vNICs
which in turn would trigger all sorts of horrid goings on in the cluster. If we disabled VMQ on the physical adapters and the team multiplex adapter, the problem went away. Obviously disabling VMQ is something that we really don’t want to resort to.
So…. The decision to refresh the environment with 2012 R2 across the board (which was also driven by other factors and not just this issue alone) was accelerated.
In the new environment, we replaced the Quad Port Broadcom 5720 Daughter Cards in the hosts with new Intel i350 QP Daughter cards to keep the NICs identical across the board. The Cluster heartbeat / Live Migration networks now use an SMB Multichannel configuration,
utilising the same two NICs as in the old design in two isolated untagged port VLANs. This part of the re-design is now working very well (Live Migrations now complete much faster I hasten to add!!)
However…. The same VMQ issues that we witnessed previously have now arisen on the production VM Switch which is used to uplink the virtual machines on each host to the outside world.
The Production VM Switch is configured as follows:
Same configuration as the original infrastructure: 4 Intel 1GbE i350 NICs, two of which are in one physical quad port NIC, whilst the other two are in an identical NIC, directly below it. The remaining 2 ports from each card function as iSCSI MPIO
interfaces to the SAN. We did this to try and achieve NIC level fault tolerance. The latest Firmware and Drivers have been installed for all hardware (including the NICs) fresh from the latest Dell Server Updates DVD (V14.10).
In each host, the above 4 VM Switch NICs are formed into a Switch independent, Dynamic team (Sum of Queues mode), each physical NIC has
RSS disabled and VMQ enabled and the Team Multiplex adapter also has RSS disabled an VMQ enabled. Secondly, each NIC is configured to use a single processor core for VMQ. As this is a Sum of Queues team, cores do not overlap
and as the host processors have Hyper Threading enabled, only cores (not logical execution units) are assigned to RSS or VMQ. The configuration of the VM Switch NICs looks as follows when running Get-NetAdapterVMQ on the hosts:
Name                           InterfaceDescription
Enabled BaseVmqProcessor MaxProcessors NumberOfReceive
Queues
VM_SWITCH_ETH01                Intel(R) Gigabit 4P I350-t A...#8 True    0:10             1
7
VM_SWITCH_ETH03                Intel(R) Gigabit 4P I350-t A...#7 True    0:14             1
7
VM_SWITCH_ETH02                Intel(R) Gigabit 4P I350-t Ada... True    0:12             1
7
VM_SWITCH_ETH04                Intel(R) Gigabit 4P I350-t A...#2 True    0:16             1
7
Production VM Switch           Microsoft Network Adapter Mult... True    0:0
28
Load is hardly an issue on these NICs and a single core seems to have sufficed in the old design, so this was carried forward into the new.
The loss of connectivity / high latency (200 – 400 mSec as before) only seems to arise when a VM is moved via Live Migration from host to host. If I setup a constant ping to a test candidate VM and move it to another host, I get about 5 dropped pings
at the point where the remaining memory pages / CPU state are transferred, followed by an dramatic increase in latency once the VM is up and running on the destination host. It seems as though the destination host is struggling to allocate the VM NIC to a
queue. I can then move the VM back and forth between hosts and the problem may or may not occur again. It is very intermittent. There is always a lengthy pause in VM network connectivity during the live migration process however, longer than I have seen in
the past (usually only a ping or two are lost, however we are now seeing 5 or more before VM Nework connectivity is restored on the destination host, this being enough to cause a disruption to the workload).
If we disable VMQ entirely on the VM NICs and VM Switch Team Multiplex adapter on one of the hosts as a test, things behave as expected. A migration completes within the time of a standard TCP timeout.
VMQ looks to be working, as if I run Get-NetAdapterVMQQueue on one of the hosts, I can see that Queues are being allocated to VM NICs accordingly. I can also see that VM NICs are appearing in Hyper-V manager with “VMQ Active”.
It goes without saying that we really don’t want to disable VMQ, however given the nature of our clients business, we really cannot afford for these issues to crop up. If I can’t find a resolution here, I will be left with no choice as ironically, we see
less issues with VMQ disabled compared to it being enabled.
I hope this is enough information to go on and if you need any more, please do let me know. Any help here would be most appreciated.
I have gone over the configuration again and again and everything appears to have been configured correctly, however I am struggling with this one.
Many thanks
Matt

Hi Gleb
I can't seem to attach any images / links until my account has been verified.
There are a couple of entries in the ndisplatform/Operational log.
Event ID 7- Querying for OID 4194369794 on TeamNic {C67CA7BE-0B53-4C93-86C4-1716808B2C96} failed. OidBuffer is failed. Status = -1073676266
And
Event ID 6 - Forwarding of OID 66083 from TeamNic {C67CA7BE-0B53-4C93-86C4-1716808B2C96} due to Member NDISIMPLATFORM\Parameters\Adapters\{A5FDE445-483E-45BB-A3F9-D46DDB0D1749} failed. Status = -1073741670
And
Forwarding of OID 66083 from TeamNic {C67CA7BE-0B53-4C93-86C4-1716808B2C96} due to Member NDISIMPLATFORM\Parameters\Adapters\{207AA8D0-77B3-4129-9301-08D7DBF8540E} failed. Status = -1073741670
It would appear as though the two GUIDS in the second and third events correlate with two of the NICs in the VM Switch team (the affected team).
Under MSLBFO Provider/Operational, there are also quite a few of the following errors:
Event ID 8 - Failing NBL send on TeamNic 0xffffe00129b79010
How can I find out what tNIC correlates with "0xffffe00129b79010"
Without the use of the nice little table that I put together (that I can't upload), the NICs and Teams are configured as follows:
Production VM Switch Team (x4 Interfaces) - Intel i350 Quad Port NICs. As above, the team itself is balanced across physical cards (two ports from each card). External SCVMM Logical Switch is uplinked to this team. Serves
as the main VM Switch for all Production Virtual machines. Team Mode is Switch Independent / Dynamic (Sum of Queues). RSS is disabled on all of the physical NICs in this team as well as the Multiplex adapter itself. VMQ configuration is as follows:
Interface Name          -      BaseVMQProc          -        MaxProcs
-      VMQ / RSS
VM_SWITCH_ETH01                  10
     1                           VMQ
VM_SWITCH_ETH02                  12
1                           VMQ
VM_SWITCH_ETH03                  14
   1                           VMQ
VM_SWITCH_ETH04                16
    1                           VMQ
SMB Fabric (x2 Interfaces) - Intel i350 Quad Port on-board daughter card. As above, these two NICs are in separate, VLAN isolated subnets that provide SMB Multichannel transport for Live Migration traffic and CSV Redirect / Cluster
Heartbeat data. These NICs are not teamed. VMQ is disabled on both of these NICs. Here is the RSS configuration for these interfaces that we have implemented:
Interface Name         -      BaseVMQProc         -        MaxProcs
-      VMQ / RSS
SMB_FABRIC_ETH01                18                                   2
RSS
SMB_FABRIC_ETH02                18                                   2
RSS
ISCSI SAN (x4 Interfaces) - Intel i350 Quad Port NICs. Once again, no teaming is required here as these serve as our ISCSI SAN interfaces (MPIO enabled) to the hosts. These four interfaces are balanced across two physical cards as per
the VM Switch team above. No VMQ on these NICS, however RSS is enabled as follows:
Interface Name          -      BaseVMQProc        -         MaxProcs
   -        VMQ / RSS
ISCSI_SAN_ETH01                    2                                    2
RSS
ISCSI_SAN_ETH02                    6                                    2
RSS
ISCSI_SAN_ETH03                    2
2                            RSS
ISCSI_SAN_ETH04                   6
2                            RSS
Management Team (x2 Interfaces) - The second two interfaces of the Intel i350 Quad Port on-board daughter card. Serves as the Management uplink to the host. As there are some management workloads hosted in this
cluster, a VM Switch is connected to this team, hence a vNIC is exposed to the Host OS in order to manage the Parent Partition. Teaming mode is Switch Independent / Address Hash (Min Queues). As there is a VM Switch connected to this team, the NICs
are configured for VMQ, thus RSS has been disabled:
Interface Name        -         BaseVMQProc        -         MaxProcs
-      VMQ / RSS
MAN_SWITCH_ETH01                 22                                  1
VMQ
MAN_SWITCH_ETH02                 22                                  1                           VMQ
We are limited as to the number of physical cores that we can allocate to VMQ and RSS so where possible, we have tried balance NICs over all available cores where practical.
Hope this helps.
Any more info required, please ask.
Kind Regards
Matt

C220 M3 problem recognizing HDD disks

Hi,
We recently have bought a UCS C220 M3 Server, in order to install a virtual environment through ESXi. When trying to install EXSi 4.1; the hard disks are not recognized and listed.
When connecting to the Web GUI (CIMC), in the inventory, the disks are not displayed...
We use 3 disks (A03-D500GC3)
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Thanks

Hi All,
I have experienced the same issue on UCS C220 M3 server. Tried below steps to get it back,
Upgrade the RAID card firmware version.
Please check the documentation in order to perform the action: http://tools.cisco.com/squish/01aC9
Factory reset the server (Before do this make sure somebody is available onsite to take console & assign CIMC IP again)
To confirm the status(Presence) of HDD, Please check the SEL logs
# 17 02 00 00 01 02 00 00 7D 9B 79 53 20 00 04 0D 42 00 00 00 6F 00 FF FF # 217 | 05/19/2014 05:49:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD1_STATUS #0x42 | Drive Presence | Asserted
# 18 02 00 00 01 02 00 00 7D 9B 79 53 20 00 04 0D 43 00 00 00 6F 00 FF FF # 218 | 05/19/2014 05:49:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD2_STATUS #0x43 | Drive Presence | Asserted
Slot: 2
  Description: LSI 6G MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i card with Supercap (RAID 0,1,5,6; RAID spans 10,50,60) - External mini-SAS connectors
  PID: UCS-RAID9271-8i
  Vendor: 0x1000
Device: 0x005b
SubVendor: 0x1000
SubDevice: 0x9271
Check on the link below how the cables should be connected:
“ Cable Routing” http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C220/install/C220.pdf   page 127
If still not working, its time to replace RAID Controller Card.
Cheers,
Alag

Migrating User from MCS 7828 H3 to UCS C220

        Hi All
I wanted to can someone tell me what is the process for migrating users from a MCS 7828 to a UCS C220. A associate of mine called me about doing a migration from the MCS to the UCS series and he wants to know how does he get the users over to the new platform.Thanks in advance for the help and have a great day.

Hi Scooter817,
There are a few options depending on what the customer has today and what will be the end state. Below are the most common scenarios:
1st Scenario - Customer is on older SW releases (8.x, 7.x, etc..) on MCS server(s) without UCSS wanting to move to new SW releases (9.x) on UCS C220.    The most cost effective way is to buy $9 upgrade per user per application SKUs (ex. UPG-6K-ENH) with UCSS for 3 years. There is more information on the BE6K product page under the partner section around migrations BE6K Product Page - http://www.cisco.com/go/be6000
2nd Scenario - Customer is on older SW releases (8.x, 7.x, etc..) on MCS server(s) with UCSS wanting to move to new SW releases (9.x) on UCS C220.    Since they have UCSS, they can go to PUT with thier contract number request updated SW and licensing, then re-host licenses to the new server. PUT link: http://tools.cisco.com/gct/Upgrade/jsp/productUpgrade.jsp
3rd Scenario - Customer is on older SW releases (8.x) on MCS server(s) with or without UCSS wanting to move to same SW releases (8.x) on UCS C220.   They can re-host licensing to the new server via SWIFT. Here is the link to the process. https://tools.cisco.com/SWIFT/LicensingUI/lookupLicenseForRehost
Thanks
Blake

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.
Could you provide some light in this situation please, what are our options?
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

Hi Shawn,
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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

Settings of VMQ?

We have around 100VMs .I want to ask about an error I got in our environment recently .And i searched everywhere and a bit confused about VMQs as I got this error in HyperV Cluster hosts.
“Available processor sets of the underlying physical NICs belonging to the LBFO team NIC /DEVICE/{D2345946-C500-492B-AA6F-1DC2FF258E94} (Friendly Name: Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor
Driver) on switch 8E2B961A-4004-496D-B83B-6EFDFF639B9A (Friendly Name: ConvergedSwitch) are not configured correctly. Reason: The processor sets overlap when LBFO is configured with sum-queue mode.”
We have 4 nodes each with :
CPU:2x8 Cores=16 Cores and 32 Logical Processors.Hyper Threading enabled.
Network:2x10 Gbps
OS: Windows Server 2012 R2
One network Team :
                Teaming Mode: Switch Independent.
                Load Balancing Mode: Dynamic.
                Standby adapter: None (All adapters active)
One virtual switch and two virtual NICs with the allow management OS access to the switch set to true .
What would be the recommended settings of VMQ or dVMQ ?and should I leave VMQ enabled on the virtual machines ?

Hi,
" set-netadaptervmq NIC1 -baseprocessornumber 2 -maxprocessors 8
set-netadaptervmq NIC2 - baseprocessornumber 18 -maxprocessors 8
VMQ i understand it uses only physical cores.
it will use theses cores if hyperthreading is enabled
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16                 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32? "
You need to take CPU 0,1 in to account .
I think it need to be configured as :
set-netadaptervmq NIC1 -baseprocessornumber 2 -maxprocessors 8
set-netadaptervmq NIC2 - baseprocessornumber 18 -maxprocessors 7
The result is :
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16                 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
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Hey,
We are trying to set the correct settings for VMQ on 2012 R2 on our physical servers.
Switch settings, Independent mode, Dynamic.
CPU, HT 2x12, lp 48.
Receive queues is 15 per port, 2x10GB.
Per default it sets to base 0, max 16. This seems to work fine except that it reports alot of errors in the event logg as we are not using the correct settings for sum queue mode.
All settings with baseprocessornumber 0 seems to work fine, but on the second port if we set it correct to not overlapp it doesnt work.
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We're having the exact same issue. I posted to another community thread which seems abandoned by the original author but very similar in symptoms (they failed to post the event log):
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/c9884adf-1402-4323-b359-97739731f412/vmq-enabled-but-not-working?forum=winserverhyperv
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Our hardware is Dell PowerEdge R820s and I've checked the BIOS for any odd IRQ options, but nothing there. Firmware, BIOS, drivers, etc are all the latest. We also have a case open with MS Support and thus far they haven't reproduced it on their end, but
are finally queuing up for a remote session.
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Hi gang,
So I am running Server 2012 R2 in a two node cluster with some teamed network cards (2 - dual 10 gig cards)
The teaming is switch independent and dynamic.
In the event viewer I am seeing the following error:
Event ID: 106
Available processor sets of the underlying physical NICs belonging to the LBFO team NIC /DEVICE/{2C85A178-B9EA-436B-8E53-FAE34A578E95} (Friendly Name: Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor
Driver) on switch 9740F036-858E-49C8-8A29-DAE5BDA94871 (Friendly Name: VLANs) are not configured correctly. Reason: The processor sets overlap when LBFO is configured with sum-queue mode.
So I read a bunch on the VMQ stuff and just want to make sure this is the proper configuration:
Set-netadaptervmq –name “NIC A” –baseprocessornumber 2 –maxprocessors 8
Set-netadaptervmq –name “NIC B” –baseprocessornumber 10 –maxprocessors 8
Set-netadaptervmq –name “NIC C” –baseprocessornumber 18 –maxprocessors 8
Set-netadaptervmq –name “NIC D” –baseprocessornumber 24 –maxprocessors 6
Hyper threading is enabled:
numberofcores numberoflogicalprocessors
8
16
8
16
The last line of the vmq configuration is my greatest confusion.
Thanks.

Hi Alexey,
So something like this should work:
Set-netadaptervmq –name “NIC A” –baseprocessornumber 4 –maxprocessors 4 --4,6,8,10
Set-netadaptervmq –name “NIC B” –baseprocessornumber 12 –maxprocessors 4 --12,14,16,18
Set-netadaptervmq –name “NIC C” –baseprocessornumber 20 –maxprocessors 3 --20,22,24
Set-netadaptervmq –name “NIC D” –baseprocessornumber 26 –maxprocessors 3 --26,28,30
Correct?

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