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Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server Chassis Installation and Service Guide
Chapter 2 Installing the System
Initial System Setup
Setting Up the System Using the Cisco IMC Configuration Utility
The following procedure is performed after you connect to the system and open the Cisco IMC
Configuration Utility by pressing F8 during boot.
Step 1
Set NIC mode and NIC redundancy:
Note
The NIC modes and NIC redundancy refer to the ports on the SIOCs. They do not refer to the 1-Gb LOM
port on an S3260 M5 server node.
a.
NIC Mode
—Set the NIC mode to select which ports to use for accessing the Cisco IMC
management interface:
•
Cisco Card (
default
)—The QSFP ports on the active SIOC are used to access Cisco IMC. You must
select a NIC redundancy setting.
•
Dedicated—The dedicated RJ-45 management port of the active SIOC is used to access the Cisco
IMC. The only NIC redundancy setting for this NIC mode is
None
.
•
Active SIOC Slot—You cannot change this value. This field shows which SIOC/chassis
management controller is active. The two SIOCs operate in an active-standby failover relationship
(see
Management Architecture, page 1-8
).
b.
NIC redundancy
—There are three possible NIC redundancy settings:
•
Active-active (
default
)—All QSFP ports are utilized simultaneously. This setting can be used only
with the
Cisco Card
NIC mode.
•
Active-standby—If an active QSFP port fails, traffic fails over to a standby port. This setting can be
used only with the
Cisco Card
NIC mode.
•
None—The ports operate independently and do not fail over if there is a problem. This setting can
be used only with the
Dedicated
NIC mode.
Step 2
Select whether to use IPv4 (
default
) or IPv6.
If you select to use IPv6, the IPv4 details are hidden because of space constraints on the screen.
Step 3
Choose whether to keep DHCP enabled (
default
), or to disable and then enter static network settings.
Note
If you use a DHCP server and you already have QSFP cables attached to the SIOCs, the management IP
address and network settings are already filled in. If you disable DHCP, you must set your own static
management IP address and network settings.
The static IPv4 and IPv6 settings include:
•
The Management IP address (the address that you use to access the Cisco IMC interface).
•
The prefix/subnet.
For IPv6, valid values are 1–127.
Note
The IP addresses for the management IP, the SIOC CMC IPs, and the server BMC IPs must all
be configured on the same subnet.
•
The gateway.
