Community,
With the help of the following thread, https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12146581/ucs-22-band-cimc-management, I successfully configured in-band KVM for a customer and had it working to the point I was able to pull up the console on a service profile and install ESXi using vMedia. However, when I returned to the customer site to perform some training I discovered that the consoles no longer worked and received the error "The viewer has terminated. The network connection has been dropped".
The in-band configuration is using the same VLAN for ESXi host management. I'm able to ping the ESXi host IP's but not the KVM IP's. Per the link above, I have a VLAN group which is associated to the ESXi management VLAN and has no uplink ports or port-channels assigned. The LAN global policy in-band profile is correctly set with the VLAN group and the network set to the ESXi management VLAN. I even went as far as creating a separate IP pool and specified that in the policy. The service profile is assigned addresses from the pool as expected but is simply not reachable.
UCSM is 2.2.2c and I've tested with two versions of Java 1.7. I do have a TAC case open, unfortunately, they're not much help. He originally had me setup an out-band address on the profile, which of course worked, and seemed to be good enough for TAC. After pressing the in-band issue, I was told that a senior engineer told him that the FI required an access port, whatever that means, but was unable to elaborate when I asked for clarification or specific configuration examples. He later stated that his research showed I should be able to setup an IP pool, configure the service profile, and allow it to pass management traffic through the inbound. LOL, OK....
Any help would be appreciated!
EB
