Attending Cisco Live 2014 in San Francisco this week? Well, get ready to hear a lot about ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure). It's almost here and its everywhere. And the acronyms, holy crap, get ready to get hit upside the head with of ton of those that you have never heard before. Cisco is only a close second to VMware when it comes to their love of acronyms.
Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS Failover Via 6248 CLI
Need to fail over Cisco UCS Manager from one 6248 to another. Oh did I mention that you are in a hurry because you are going to have to sift through pages and pages of pdfs to get the information. I found this out the hard way. Anyway, out of the kindness of my heart I have documented this process below.
How to Reset the Cisco CIMC via the Command Line
Long ago I wrote a post on how to reset the ILO on a HP Proliant server via the command line, as this was often necessary to get a slow responding ILO responding again. Cisco has included similar functionality in the CIMC CLI, instructions below. esx01# scope cimc esx01 /cimc # reboot This operation will … Continue reading How to Reset the Cisco CIMC via the Command Line
Cisco UCS Visio Stencils
Cisco UCS Visio Stencils -- Use the link below and scroll down to "Unified Computing and Servers", and select "Unified Computing System" and download the zip file. Currently (as of 12/2014) you can cut to the chase and use the direct link below:
Cisco UCS Firmware Best Practices Document
Not sure that I have ever run into a product with as many separate support documents as Cisco UCS - here is another that appears to be useful (the jury is still out on this one). Anyway the link is below http://goo.gl/KOm8J The link below will take you to the Firmware update and install guides … Continue reading Cisco UCS Firmware Best Practices Document
How Not to Assign KVM IP Addresses Via Cisco UCS Manager
After a few hours poking around a newly deployed UCS cluster trying to get some basic profiles created and assigned. I realized that I had actually no idea how the KVM is actually supposed to work inside the UCS cluster. Which is funny as this was a subject that we touched on during my DCUDC class. Apparently we did not touch on it enough.
Cisco UCS Manager (2.0) Configuration Guide
This is the document that you will want to have access to in order to configure your USC Cluster Manager.