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An UCS server can be in stand-alone mode. In this case it is not connected to any Fabric Interconnect and you can control it via CIMC. If you want to connect it to a Fabric Interconnect after being in stand-alone mode, you must reset the CIMC to factory reset. An official document can be found … Read more
It’s nice that the bandwidth of the servers and the whole UCS system is getting faster and faster. Sometimes you must connect the FI 6332 with all 40 Gb ports to a 10 Gb network. How do you configure the Fabric Interconnect to have a 10 Gb connection ? Port Configuration First of all you … Read more
Factory Reset of a Fabric Interconnect To do a factory reset you will have to SSH into the FI’s. FI-Hyperflex-A# connect local-mgmt Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac Copyright (c) 2009, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The copyrights to certain works contained in this software are owned by other third parties … Read more
Auto Healing ! Hyperflex is cool and I really like this feature. Not only on Powerpoint, but also how it’s working. You have to ask yourself : How can a system heal itself ? Doesn’t a RAID controller do that for storage ? Why change that into something completely different? How does it work ? … Read more
Password Reset This time I didn’t forget a password. I just got a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect without any credentials. Here is the procedure to reset it : Connect the console and power on the Fabric Interconnect A. Make sure the Fabric Interconnect B is powered off ! Keep pressing CTRL-l for the loader prompt … Read more
Is the NVMe market growing ? According to IDC the NVME market is growing very fast in the next 3 years. SATA and SAS drives (Spinning disk and SSD) will be substantially less in the future. Why is it growing ? All hardware devices for storage relied on SCSI commands. These commands are processed sequential. … Read more
The initialsetup of a Fabric Interconnect is very easy. Just connect the consolecable and the follow the instruction. Configuring Fabric Interconnect B is even more easier when there is a linkconnection between the FI’s.