Compute

An engineer installs a new UCS 5108 chassis with two 2408 IOMs, each cabled with four links to the fabric interconnects. After the chassis is acknowledged, the newly inserted B200 blades remain in a 'Discovery' state and never come online. The chassis discovery policy is set to '4 Link' and the link grouping preference is set to 'Port Channel'. Investigation shows only two of the four cables per IOM are actually connected. What is the most likely cause and resolution?

A network engineer configures a service profile for a B200 M6 blade that has a single Cisco VIC 1440 adapter. The design requires that a management vNIC remain reachable even if one fabric interconnect fails, but the OS team wants to avoid configuring NIC teaming or bonding inside the operating system. Which configuration on the vNIC will meet this requirement?

An administrator plans to upgrade a UCS domain from firmware version 4.1 to 4.2. Before starting, they want to verify that the target infrastructure firmware bundle is compatible with the currently installed server firmware and adapter models to avoid a failed activation. Which UCS Manager feature should they use to identify version incompatibilities prior to initiating the upgrade?

During a UCS Manager infrastructure firmware upgrade of a clustered pair of Fabric Interconnects (FI-A subordinate, FI-B primary), an administrator activates the new infrastructure firmware and acknowledges the reboot prompt. Blade servers use fabric failover for their vNICs. Which sequence best describes how UCS Manager processes the Fabric Interconnect reboots to minimize data-plane disruption?

An administrator is applying an updated Host Firmware Package to 40 production B-Series blades associated with a service profile template. Each blade requires a reboot to activate the new adapter and BIOS firmware. The change window is tight, and the team wants to avoid an uncontrolled mass reboot while still ensuring the firmware activates only when explicitly approved by the operations team. Which configuration ensures the reboots are held until manually authorized?

A network engineer is configuring a Cisco UCS 5108 chassis connected to a pair of 6454 Fabric Interconnects. The chassis IOMs each have four cables connected to their corresponding fabric interconnect. The engineer wants the four links between each IOM and its FI to be bundled together so that a single link failure does not reduce the number of blade servers that remain reachable through that fabric, and so that traffic is distributed across all four links. Which chassis/FI discovery policy setting achieves this requirement?

A network engineer needs to troubleshoot intermittent packet loss affecting a specific B-Series blade in a Cisco UCS domain. They want to mirror the traffic entering and leaving the blade's vNIC to an external protocol analyzer connected to a fabric interconnect port, without disrupting production traffic. Which UCS Manager configuration accomplishes this?

A data center engineer must prepare a disaster-recovery plan for a UCS Manager domain. If the primary Fabric Interconnect cluster fails completely and must be rebuilt from scratch, the engineer needs a backup file that can restore the entire system — including the FI identity, cluster configuration, VLANs, service profiles, and pools — onto factory-default Fabric Interconnects. Which UCS Manager backup type meets this requirement?

A data center engineer is deploying a new Cisco UCS C-Series rack server in standalone mode. Before installing an operating system, the engineer needs to remotely configure RAID, mount virtual media, and monitor server power and temperature sensors from a workstation on a separate management VLAN, without any dependency on the host OS being installed. Which component must be configured to provide this capability?

A data center engineer manages several standalone UCS C240 M5 rack servers that are NOT integrated with a Fabric Interconnect. The servers need a coordinated firmware update covering the CIMC, BIOS, storage controller, and NIC/HBA adapters in a single operation. The engineer wants to minimize manual per-component steps and ensure all component firmware is aligned to a validated bundle. Which method should the engineer use?

A data center engineer is integrating standalone Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers into UCS Manager for centralized management. The servers each have a Cisco VIC 1455 adapter. The engineer connects each server's VIC ports directly to the Fabric Interconnects and wants management traffic and data traffic to flow over the same cables without a separate connection to the FEX for CIMC management. Which integration mode must be configured to meet this requirement?

An administrator is deploying a standalone Cisco UCS C-Series rack server and wants CIMC management traffic to share the same physical LOM ports the OS uses for data traffic, rather than dedicating the separate management port. When configuring the CIMC NIC mode to achieve this shared behavior, which NIC mode must be selected?

A network administrator manages a Cisco UCS C240 M6 rack server operating in standalone mode (integrated CIMC, not connected to Fabric Interconnects). A recurring application performance issue requires the administrator to capture and mirror ingress and egress traffic from one of the server's physical NICs to an external protocol analyzer for deep packet inspection. Which approach correctly achieves this traffic monitoring requirement?

A data center engineer is deploying twelve Cisco UCS C240 M6 rack servers into an existing UCS domain so they can be managed centrally through UCS Manager alongside the B-Series blades. Each C-Series server currently ships with dual-port VIC cards. The engineer wants the servers to appear as managed endpoints in UCS Manager with full service profile support and no separate management console. Which connectivity approach meets these requirements?

A UCS administrator must upgrade the firmware on adapters, CIMC, and BIOS across 40 B-Series blades running production workloads. The goal is to standardize component firmware and control exactly when each server reboots for the update, without manually setting firmware on every service profile. Which approach in UCS Manager best meets these requirements?

A data center engineer is upgrading firmware on an adapter in a UCS B-Series blade using direct firmware management (not a host firmware package). After downloading the image to the fabric interconnect, the engineer performs an 'Update' on the adapter endpoint, and the operation completes successfully. However, monitoring shows the adapter is still running the previous firmware version. What must the engineer do next to make the new firmware version the running version?

A data center engineer must upgrade a UCS Manager domain (two 6454 Fabric Interconnects in a cluster, one 5108 chassis with B200 blades) from an older release to a new major release. The engineer wants to minimize disruption and follow Cisco's recommended sequence for the infrastructure firmware bundle. In what order should the components be upgraded?

An administrator is deploying a UCS X-Series compute node in Intersight Managed Mode. The server must boot from a local M.2 RAID volume as the primary device, with a fallback to iSCSI if the local disk fails. When building the Boot Order policy attached to the server profile, which configuration correctly achieves this requirement?

An engineer manages several UCS X-Series compute nodes in Intersight Managed Mode using a server profile that was derived from a template. One node is being decommissioned and physically removed from the chassis, but the organization wants to preserve the exact configuration (including all identity pool values such as MAC, WWPN, and UUID) so it can be quickly redeployed to a replacement node later. Which action best meets this requirement?

An engineer is configuring an Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) UCS-X server profile for a new ESXi host. The host requires four vNICs distributed across both fabric interconnects for redundancy and specific VLAN groupings. When building the server profile, which policy must the engineer configure to define these vNICs, their fabric placement, and associated VLAN groups?