Tag: UCS

Cisco UCS SAN Boot

If you have a Cisco UCS system, you probably want to do SAN boot.  It is a simple, and quick  task to perform.  This is a follow up to an earlier post on UCS with local FC storage.   Just remember that boot order changes require a reboot of the Service Profiles and associated blades. …

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Cisco UCS with FC Local Storage

If you are trying to add FC storage to your UCS environment, you can quickly do so by connecting a storage server using FC staright into the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects.  I have in the past used Openfiler, Nexenta and now use Tegile as my storage platform.  Here is a quick guide to …

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UCS Firmware Upgrade 2.1 to 2.2 with Service Profile Templates

This post is part 2 of the UCS upgrade guide.  If you use Service Profile Templates in your UCS deployments, use this quick guide to safely upgrade your servers, which is step 4 of the UCS upgrade outlined in an earlier post from Chris Murray of TechShifter. Current Environment We currently have one Cisco UCS …

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UCS Firmware Upgrade: 2.1 » TechShifter

Here is a great guide that I found to upgrade a Cisco UCS In the following guide, Chris Murray from TechShifter, outlines beautifully how to upgrade from UCS 2.0 to 2.1.  I used this same guide to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2(1b).  Although Chris did  a wonderful job on this, I will add a post …

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Quick and easy way to get around the CIsco UCS – Login Error: java.io.IOException

You might have experienced the exceptionally annoying error with Cisco UCS and the latest update to Java (and apparently the fault is a java programming fault not Cisco UCS) where after trying to login to Cisco UCS you get the following error: Login Error: java.io.IOException: Invalid Http response Login Error: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response …

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