Release Notes for Cisco UCS Manager Adapter, Release 1.x For VMware vCenter Operations Manager

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Release Notes for Cisco UCS Manager Adapter, Release 1.x For VMware vCenter Operations Manager

Contents

Revision History

Introduction

System Requirements

VMware vCenter Operations Manager

Cisco UCS Manager

New Features

Release 1.1(2)

Release 1.1(1)

Release 1.0

Known Limitations

Release 1.1(1)

Open Caveats

Release 1.1(1)

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Release Notes for Cisco UCS Manager Adapter, Release 1.x
For VMware vCenter Operations Manager

First Published: December 2015

Current Release: 1.x

 

This document describes the system requirements, new features, information about the images, resolved caveats, known caveats, and workarounds for Cisco UCS Manager Adapter, Release 1.x. This document also includes current information that became available after the technical documentation was published.

Use these release notes as a supplement with the other documents listed in the documentation roadmap at Cisco UCS B-Series Servers Documentation Roadmap.

Make sure to review other available documentation on Cisco.com to obtain the most current information about Cisco UCS Manager Adapter, Release 1.x

Contents

This document includes the following sections:

Revision History

Table 1 shows the revision history:

Table 1 Online History Changes

Revision
Release
Date
Description

A0

1.0

January 2015

Created Release notes for Cisco UCS Manager Adapter, Release 1.0

B0

1.1(1)

August 2015

Following changes were made in this revision:

C0

1.1(2)

December 2015

Updated New Features section

Introduction

UCS Manager Adapter for vCenter Operations Manager enables monitoring the UCS domains on the Operations Manager console. The pack uses the XML API exposed by the Cisco UCS Manager to get the monitoring data from the UCS domains. You can use this data to monitor the health and faults of the various resources in the UCS domain and its impact on the virtual infrastructure running on it.

System Requirements

VMware vCenter Operations Manager

Before installing Cisco UCS Manager adapter, ensure that the VMware vCenter Operations Manager version 5.8 is installed on your machine.

Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco UCS Manager adapter is compatible with the following Cisco UCS Manager releases:

  • Release 2.0
  • Release 2.1
  • Release 2.2
  • Release 3.0

New Features

Release 1.1(2)

  • Added support for Cisco UCS Manager 2.0

Release 1.1(1)

This section briefly describes the new features introduced in this release:

  • Added the following dashboards in the custom UI page:

– UCS PSU and Fan Statistics

– Fabric Interconnect Traffic Statistics

– UCS Server Motherboard Statistics

– Server Traffic Statistics

  • Added the following resource kind and the supported metrics:

Table 2 Resource Kinds and Metrics

Resource Kind
List of Metrics

Chassis

Operational State Score

Operational State

Faults

Fabric Interconnect

Operational State Score

Operational State

Faults

Load average, cumulative

Memory Available Average, Cumulative (MB)

Memory Cached Average, Cumulative (MB)

Servers, Fabric Extenders, FI-IO Modules, and Server Adapter Units

Operational State Score

Operational State

Faults

Service Profiles

Association State Score

Association State

Faults

Server Motherboard

Operational State Score

Operational State

Faults

Input Voltage (Volts)

Input Current (Amps)

Consumed Power (Watts)

Rear Temperature (Celsius)

Front Temperature (Celsius)

Memory Units

Operational State Score

Operational State

Faults

DDR Array Temperature (Celsius)

Fans

Operational State Score

Operational State

Faults

Speed (RPM)

Uplink Ports, Server Ports, FCoE Storage Ports, FCoE Uplink Ports, Appliance Ports, Eth Port Channels, FCoE Port Channels, Fc Port Channels, FC Ports, Server DCE Interfaces, vHBAs, vNICs and iSCSI vNICs

Operational State Score

Operational State

Faults

Rx Error-Total(packets)

Rx Error-Delta(packets/sec)

Tx Error-Total(packets)

Tx Error-Delta(packets/sec)

Tx-Total(bytes)

Tx-Delta(bytes/sec)

Tx-Total(packets)

Tx-Delta(packets/sec)

Rx-Total(bytes)

Rx-Delta(bytes/sec)

Rx-Total(packets)

Rx-Delta(packets/sec)

Power State Unit (PSU)

Operational State Score

Operational State

Faults

Output Power (W)

Output Voltage (Volts)

Output Current (Amps)

Internal Temperature (Celsius)

Input Voltage (Volts)

Power

Processor Units

Operational State Score

Operational State

Faults

CPU Temperature (Celsius)

Input Current (Amps)

Release 1.0

This section briefly describes the new features introduced in this release:

  • Custom dashboard to view the UCS domains and its resources, such as fabric interconnect, fabric extender, IO module, UCS chassis, UCS blade servers, UCS rack servers, associated service profiles, and FI-IO module.
  • Viewing the health and fault badges for the UCS resources.
  • Correlation between the UCS servers and the ESXi hosts enabling you to quickly get the UCS server details for a particular VM or ESXi.
  • Displaying of UCS faults as alerts in operations manager user interface.

Known Limitations

Release 1.1(1)

Following are the known limitations for this release:

  • vCenter adapter passes incorrect health score to UCS Manager adapter. Health score for hosts and VMs shows incorrect value.
  • Powered off filter does not work for ESXi hosts and VMs on the UCSM dashboard.
  • Metric Graph widget does not reflect correct values for metrics of type string.
  • Unlike UCS Manager, vCenter Operations Manager does not display faults (alerts) of logically related objects.

Open Caveats

Release 1.1(1)

This section lists the open caveats for Release 1.1(1).

Table 3

Bug ID
Symptom
Workaround

CSCuv52320

Statistics are not getting collected for PSUs and fans of FEX, rack servers, and fabric interconnects. Also, motherboards statistics are not getting collected for rack servers.

None

CSCus55304

In the health tree widget, single service profile can be shown associated with two blade server.

None

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