I ran into an issue tonight that kept me up for a few hours. A customer is running Cisco UCS solution, Cisco Nexus 1000v, Netapp SAN and VMware vSphere 5.

I ran through my Cisco UCS tutorials during a recent install to make sure everything was 100% correct and I found that I missed one important section which was Chassis Discovery. When you first log into the UCS manager you will not see any Chassis’s. To discovery the chassis you need to add server ports. I’ve written a small tutorial about how to do this: http://www.sysadmintutorials.com/tutorials/cisco/cisco-ucs/cisco-ucs-fabric-interconnect-chassis-discovery/
I’ve been working quite a bit with Snapmirror in the last few weeks and have updated the Netapp CLI pocket guide with quite a few more commands and a few hidden commands in priv diag mode. You can check that out here: http://www.sysadmintutorials.com/tutorials/netapp/netapp-data-ontap-cli/

Last tutorials for March 2011. I’ve created a few tutorials in the last few days, concentrating on setting the Cisco UCS Server Profile creation which can be used to assign to one of your blades.
Here is the link for the tutorial http://www.sysadmintutorials.com/tutorials/cisco/cisco-ucs/cisco-ucs-fabric-interconnect-server-profile-setup/