1. Flex Flash Scrub
2. No Scrub

So where will you find the Flex Flash Controller? Click on the Left pan on Equipment and Select the Chassis then the Server, on the right you will find the below details click on Inventory and select the last tab which is Storage on the Storage tab you will find FlexFlash Controller Note: this FlexFlash is only support if you are running 2.2 (d1) firmware.   Once you assign the new service profile policy, we will see the below error on the FlexFlaash Cards

2. Go to the service Profile and select the Policies and change the Scrub policy
3.  in this create 2 policy the default is no scrub but you can create one called FlexFlash Scrub and the  other one No Scrub

To create the scrub policy click on Service profile of the server and click Policy > Scrub and click Create Scrub Policy

2. You will have to use the first policy for Flex flash Scrub which should have the below settings.

FlexFlash Scrub: should set to Yes  

3. You then need to create a new policy for No-Scrub as shown below :

After creating two policy this is the tricky bit to have the SD card as  Mirror you will need to do two reboots first set the scrub policy to FlexFlash-Scrub ( note this will scrub the SD cards)  and click Save   Do the following steps:

3. Go to the server and Click server Maintenance this will scrub the flash
4. Reboot the server  in the following manor, go the the Equipment tab select the Chassis and the server Click on ‘Server Maintenance’ and click on ‘Re-acknowledge’ server

Acknowledge for Reboot You will find the rediscovery Once its configured go back to service profile Go to > Polices Select Scrub Policy and change it to No-Scrub from the drop down menue     which should look like below:     5. Go to the server and Click server Maintenance this will Mirror and pair the SD card to Raid1/ Mirroring 6. Reboot the server  in the following manor, go the the Equipment tab select the Chassis and the server Click on ‘Server Maintenance’ and click on ‘Re-acknowledge’ server Acknowledge for Reboot   After the server does the  rediscovery and boots successfully, You will see that this is successfully paired with is RAID 1 Mirroring. Please note the Raid Status : Enabled Paired   Error message if the Raid is not working, this means you have to go through the process again. always make sure you only change the scrub policy on the specific server profile and not the service profile template as this will create problems on the working profiles. Another example of error is Raid Status Disabled   How to test ? The only confirmation we can get is on the below image where it says Raid Status Enabled Paired, however I have tested swapping the SD cards out one by one and the ESXi  Server boots successfully you will immediately see the error message that the pair is disabled. Unfortunately you will need to pull the server out to change swap the SD cards but hay at least you will find out if the mirroring is working.     Also you will need to remember that after installing ESXi on SD card will give you an error message on the ESXi host that  ‘The ESXi host does not have persistent storage’  you will need to add the storage and  a scrach partition. To create a scrach partition follow the below VMware KB. https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1033696 or I might create a blog on how to do it later… My friend Vikram has just posted the process on his blog www.viktec.com System logs on host are stored on non-persistent storage Please find the new updates the latest firmware is bringing.  Release 2.2(1b) adds support for the following: IPv6 Management Support Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) In-band Management Fabric scaling: VLAN, VIFs, IGMP, Network Adapter Endpoints Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD) Support User Space NIC (usNIC) for Low Latency Support for Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) C-Series Servers Direct Connect to FI without FEX Two-factor Authentication for UCS Manager Logins VM-FEX for Hyper-V Management with Microsoft SCVMM Direct KVM Access Server Firmware Auto Sync Enhanced Local Storage Management Flash Adapters and HDD Firmware Management Precision Boot Order Control Secure Boot UEFI Boot Support FlexFlash (Local SD card) Support Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Inventory DIMM Blacklisting and Correctable Error Reporting C-Series Board Controller Firmware Management   Additional resources related to this post:   If you want to learn more about the process of doing a Firmware update please checkout my link CISCO UCS Firmware Update Process If you want to learn more about the process of doing a Firmware update please checkout my link advanced boot or secure boot configuration cannot be applied to the specified server There are not enough resources overall 

The first step you need before installing the SCCM product is to get the My SQL 2008 Installed and running. However the installation is a little diffrent to be able to allow the SCCM to connect to SQL Database instance.

Once you launch the setup you will find it extracting all the required files then you will see the below screen chose the Install tab

Note I have install this on my C Drive, however its highly recommended to keep the SQL Database setup on a different partition.

In this screen you can see that Setup inspects all the required rules click <OK>

On this screen  click <Install>

This screens does another check and shows you the results in my case I have installed the Server as a Domain controller as its not recommended to has DC running its giving me a warding. and also its prompting me for Microsoft .NET application security

remember you should have at least .NET 3.5 version installed, just to let you know Windows Server 2012 has .NET 4 installed which should be more then enough.

Click Next

For the SCCM installation please remember to select the default Instance name

keep a note of the instance id as you will need it later and Instance root directory.

click <Next>

click <Next>

This is the most important part for the SQL installation to support SCCM as you need to select specific collection settings on the collections tab make sure you give the authorized account name and password which you want to use

and the second important task to change on this screen is the SQL Server Browser service change it to Automatic from Disabled as SCCM setup will not continue if SQL Browser service is not running

Click on the Collection tab and click customize and select SQL_Latin1_Genral_CP1_CL_AS as the Database engine.

You will get this windows once you click customize

Click <Ok> and then click <Next>

Click <Next>

Obviously, we want to send the error report to Microsoft for improving the SQL software that’s the whole point of Beta testing so

select both options.

Click <Next>

This screen shows you all the settings of the server and their status

Click <Next>

Finally you are ready to install the setup will review all the details you have selected. Click <Install>

You will need to wait for the installation process for a short while.

Finally you are done with the installation click <Close>

I will shortly post the process of SCCM installation on Windows 2008 R2 edition.

I also had some time to play around with Microsoft very famous free for use Hyper -V which is available from Windows Server 2008 R2 editions. I have found it very good but not as good VMware product though.

currently I am using the Hyper -V on Server 2012 Beta which looks very robust so far on few of my test, I am planning to write a blog post on MS Hyper- V installation and deployment too, with a coparision with VMware ESXi ( Vsphere 5)

Hope you find this post helpful.