8.01.2012

Bare Metal UCS Blade vNIC Configuration

When configuring bare metal installation of an OS on a UCS blade, you need to take into consideration the fact that the UCS vethernet ports are always trunk interfaces..  To essentially make a vNIC into an "access" port, you would need to configure 1 VLAN per vNIC, with the Native VLAN checkbox checked so that packets set across that trunk are untagged.




Alternatively, you can leave multiple VLANs on the vNIC trunk interface, and configure subinterfaces/trunking at the OS level.