My Personal Blog
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
In HyperFlex connect you can see a lot of information of the system. What vCenter is used, the versions. But what if you just need the UCS Manager where the HyperFlex system is connected to. Where can you find it ? It’s not here. You will have to go to the Web CLI : And … Read more
In my lab I do a lot of testing, demo’s which includes also an installation of a HyperFlex cluster. If you just do a re-installation of a HyperFlex cluster, you can get all kind of errors because there is still a lot of information saved on the Storage Controller and on the ESXi partition. There … Read more
UCS Director It’s an automation tool. Not only for Cisco UCS servers, but also for networking, hypervisors and storage. Today I wanted to automate our FlashStack which contains storage of PureStorage with the UCS Director. When configuring UCS Director, I noticed I had to create a WWNN pool at the UCS Manager. After configuring, the UCS … Read more