Reader Peter sent the following question as a comment to my Direct Attach Appliance Ports post.
When I connected my NAS to use the appliance port, in order for the vnic of the blade server to communicate with the NAS, i found that there should be a connected uplink port in the 6100 even though I created a private VLAN for the appliance po [...]
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Why do I need an active uplink to use...
Reader Peter sent the following question as a comment to my Direct Attach Appliance Ports post.
When I connected my NAS to use the appliance port, in order for the vnic of the blade server to communicate with the NAS, i found that there should be a connected uplink port in the 6100 even though I created a private VLAN for the appliance po [...]
UCSM 1.4 : Maintenance Policies and S...
Strange as it may seem with all of the great new features in UCSM 1.4, this is one of my favorites.
To understand the impact, first look at the way disruptive changes were handled prior to this release. When changing a configuration setting on a service profile, updating service profile template, or many policies, if the change would cause [...]
Chassis Discovery Policies in UCS
Cisco UCS provides a configurable “Chassis Discovery Policy” that affects how chassis links (called “Server Ports”) are activated when discovering a new chassis. See this page on cisco.com.
After a recent discussion on Twitter, I decided to test out a few scenarios.
My configuration is a pair of UCS 6120 Fabric Interc [...]