Introduction
Featured Speakers
Avinash Shukla is a customer support engineer from the Server Virtualization team at the Cisco Technical Assistance Center in Bangalore, India. He has more than 7 years of total experience. He has worked on a wide range of Cisco data center products such as Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000V, Cisco Invicta and Cisco Collaboration technology. He also holds a CCIE in Data Center & Voice
Manas Kumar Nath is a customer support engineer from the Server Virtualization team at the Cisco Technical Assistance Center in Bangalore, India. He has more than 9 years of experience. He has worked on a wide range of Cisco data center products such as Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000V, Nexus 1110. He also holds VCP5 and RHCE certifications.
Sandeep Kumar is a customer support engineer from the Server Virtualization team at the Cisco Technical Assistance Center in Bangalore, India. He has over seven years of experience. He has worked on a wide range of Cisco data center products such as Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000V, ACE Load Balancers. Sandeep also holds RHCE certifications.
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UCS Mini Architecture, Troubleshooting and Upgrade
Q. What kind of appliance are supported?
A. You can connect FC storage array or IP storage
Q. Can I connect a storage device to FI 6234? FC or isci?
A: Yes. We can connect the storage device directly. Check the Webcast video session for more information.
Q. How about the L1-L2 ports?
A: We don't have any L1-L2 ports. Please check the Webcast video session for more information.
Q. The 40 GBps port in FI 6234 can only be configured in Ethernet mode?
A: No. We can configure the regular ports 1-4 in Ethernet mode.
Q. That means we can configure 2 of them in FC and two in FCOE for example?
A: You can configure them as FCOE storage port .
Q. When we update firmware, this reboot FI 6234? What happen with my servers and their applications?
A: We do this one FI-IOM at a time. Since FI-IOM is active/active for data plane. If we have configured failover on server, It would continue to have network/Lan connectivity
Q. As a best practice, should we start with the servers upgrade or the infrastructure first when using the auto upgrade option ?
A: Infrastructure firmware first and server upgrade later.
Q. When do we upgrade a item (Servers), we also must to have care about other element ( FI, UCS Manager) ?
A: Infrastructure components (FI-IOM, UCSM ) and Server components can be upgraded separately but server firmware cannot be higher than the infrastructure firmware.
Q. Is there any emulator for UCS mini?
A: Yes. Refer the following : https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-53980
Q. Where do we can check the compatibility or the minimum firmware that is accept ?
A: Check the release notes for firmware 3.0.1/2 release
Q. When firmware update for FI 6234 is required ? May be when we have bugs?
A: Firmware updates can be performed for various reasons. Bug fixes, new features or requirements etc .
Q. When the storage has multiple controllers the option should be multiple targets in the connection policy?
A: Yes. If we have multiple targets.
Q. Can we connect the UCS emulator to physical servers?
A: An emulator is software only. We cannot connect physical servers
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