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  • 1.  How to check Cisco UCS B200 blade server Hardware compatibility??

    Posted Aug 13, 2014 12:47 PM

    Dear Team,

    In our environment we have 14 ESXi 5.1 U1 host are running in a HA/ DR cluster.

    Now we are planning to upgrade our ESXi host to ESXi5.5 before that I need to confirm Hardware compatibility of Cisco UCSB-B200-M3 BLADE server.


    What command I have to run on esxi from where I collect all hardware device id / vendor id info so that I will cross check the same at VMware compatibility site.

    Need ur urgent assistance on the same.


    regards

    Mr VMware



  • 2.  RE: How to check Cisco UCS B200 blade server Hardware compatibility??

    Posted Aug 13, 2014 01:25 PM

    First, take a look at VMware HCL: VMware Compatibility Guide: System Search



  • 3.  RE: How to check Cisco UCS B200 blade server Hardware compatibility??

    Posted Aug 14, 2014 10:22 AM

    Thanks Richard,

    What about other components such as HBA / SCSI controller / NIC etc....

    How to check compatibility of HBA / SCSI controller  / NIC etc....

    after successfully upgrade how to check do I need to upgrade driver of HBA / NIC /SCSI Controller ?????

    regards

    Mr VMware



  • 4.  RE: How to check Cisco UCS B200 blade server Hardware compatibility??

    Posted Aug 14, 2014 11:54 AM

    If you know model/type of your I/O devices, check the compatibility here: VMware Compatibility Guide: I/O Device Search

    About device driver, the new ESXi image will have the new compatible drivers... anyway, when doing my migrations I always use the downtime window to upgrade the hardware firmware.



  • 5.  RE: How to check Cisco UCS B200 blade server Hardware compatibility??

    Posted Aug 19, 2014 06:39 AM

    Thanks Richard,

    sorry I m new , I don't know the model of I/O device... I have ran the esxcfg-info command and export the output.

    Please find the attached file it contains all hardware component details I Request u to highlight all required device / components for which I have to check compatibility before upgrading ESXi host.

    Appreciate your help

    regards

    Mr VMware



  • 6.  RE: How to check Cisco UCS B200 blade server Hardware compatibility??

    Posted Aug 20, 2014 09:14 AM

    Dear Richard,

    for compatibility check need ur assistance ...

    regards

    Mr VMware



  • 7.  RE: How to check Cisco UCS B200 blade server Hardware compatibility??

    Posted Aug 20, 2014 09:27 AM

    Hi,

    we are also using B200 M3 Blades. Running ESXi 5.5

    They are on the compatibility list. If so, all Hardware is also compatible with the ESXi Version.

    Install the Servers with the Cisco VMware Image and you will be fine.

    But check the installed Cisco Image for compatibility with VMware. For that, you have to go to the Cisco site

    Cisco Unified Computing System - Technical References - Cisco

    and check your installed version with the vmware version you wan´t to use. For ESXi Version 5.5 you need at least Verion 2.1(3) for UCS

    Frank