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Cisco UCS Integration Pack Suite, Release 1.1.1 is a unified installer which includes Cisco UCS Manager Integration Pack, and Cisco IMC Integration Pack. It installs the integration pack as a plug-in the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. It helps to simplify the server management tasks, such as hardware provisioning, operating system deployment processes on the Cisco UCS B, C and E series servers.
Before installing Cisco UCS Integration Pack Suite, ensure the system meets or exceeds the following minimum requirements:
– System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
– System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1
– System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
The Cisco UCS Integration Pack Suite supports the following operating systems:
The supported UCS Manager B-Series and C-series platforms depends on the running UCS Manager version. For information on supported hardware and software for UCS Manager components, see the Hardware and Software Interoperability for UCSM Managed Servers.
The Cisco IMC Integration Pack is supported on the following hardware platforms:
Cisco UCS Manager Integration Pack is supported on the following UCS Manager releases:
The Cisco IMC Integration Pack is compatible with Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Version 1.5(2) or higher for C-Series servers and Version 2.3(x) and higher for E-Series servers.
Cisco IMC 1.5(1) supports the following features:
Note Configuring BIOS on Cisco UCS C-series servers requires Cisco IMC version of 1.5(4) or higher.
Following table provides details of the Cisco UCS Driver Zip support matrix for the integration packs:
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Note For Cisco UCS C-Series and B-Series M4 servers, minimum version of driver zip supported is 2.0(3) and higher for all the supported operating systems.
Note For Cisco UCS E-Series server, 2.0(1a) is the supported driver package version to deploy Windows Server 2008 R2.
Note Upgrade from previous versions of Cisco UCS Manager Integration Pack, Cisco IMC Integration Pack is not supported. Uninstall any previous versions of Integration packs before installing the Cisco UCS Integration Pack Suite.
To install or uninstall the Cisco UCS Integration Pack Suite on the systems with User Account Control (UAC) enabled, open a Command Prompt using Run as Administrator and navigate to the directory where the MSI is located and launch the installer.