Chapter 1. Release Notes for EMC Connector Pack

- Cisco UCS Director

- Connector Pack

- EMC Connector Pack

- New and Changed Features in Release 6.6.0.1

- Open Bugs

- Resolved Bugs

- Communications, Services, and Additional Information

Cisco UCS Director

Cisco UCS Director delivers unified, highly secure management for supported compute, network, storage, and virtualization platforms and for the industry's leading converged infrastructure solutions, which are based on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) and Cisco Nexus platforms. Cisco UCS Director extends the unification of computing and network layers through Cisco UCS to provide data center administrators with comprehensive visibility and management capabilities for compute, network, storage, and virtualization. For more information, see Cisco UCS Director on Cisco.com.

- Revision History

Revision History

Release

Date

Description

6.6.0.1

August 22, 2018

Created for Release 6.6.0.1.

Connector Pack

Connector packs help you perform connector level upgrade in Cisco UCS Director without impacting other connectors. After claiming Cisco UCS Director in Cisco Intersight, as a system administrator, you can view information on new versions of connector packs that are available for upgrade. The top header pane of the user interface displays a Download icon indicating that new connector pack versions are available. You can select and upgrade the connector packs in Cisco UCS Director.

EMC Connector Pack

Cisco UCS Director supports EMC storage systems and data protection systems. The EMC connector pack provides features and defect fixes for new versions of EMC.

The following connectors are available in this Connector Pack release:

- EMC Isilon

- EMC RecoverPoint

- EMC Unity

- EMC VNX

- Upgrading Connector Packs

- Viewing Connector Pack Upgrade Information

Upgrading Connector Packs

Before you begin

- You must have system administrator privileges in Cisco UCS Director.

- Cisco UCS Director has been claimed in Cisco Intersight. For information on claiming a device, see the integrated guided walkthrough titled Learn How to Claim a Device available within the Online Help menu in the Cisco Intersight user interface.

- Cisco UCS Director is successfully connected to Cisco Intersight.

- Take a snapshot of Cisco UCS Director before you initiate the upgrade.

Procedure

Step 1

On the header, click New Upgrades Available.

The Available System Upgrades screen appears and will display all available connector packs for upgrade along with version information. Upon login, if you clicked Yes to the pop-up message, then the very same upgrade screen appears.

Note

The New Upgrades Available icon is visible on the header only when new versions of the current running connector packs are available for upgrade.

Step 2

Check the check box of a connector pack from the list.

You can check the check boxes of multiple connector packs.

Step 3

Click Upgrade.

Step 4

In the Confirm Upgrade dialog box, click Yes.

After you confirm that the connector version must be upgraded, the validation process is initiated. If the validation process completes successfully, the upgrade process is initiated and the System Upgrade Status screen displays the upgrade status. After the upgrade process is successful, the Logout option is enabled.

Step 5

Click Logout.

While upgrading a base platform pack that includes changes to all infrastructure components, all Cisco UCS Director services are restarted. As a result, after clicking Logout, the screen could appear to be unresponsive for a few minutes. After all the services are restarted, and the upgrade process is complete, you can login to Cisco UCS Director .

What to do next

You can view the upgrade reports by choosing Administration > System > System Updates. From this screen, you can double-click on a report, and view additional details on the upgrade process. For more information, see Viewing Connector Pack Upgrade Information.

Viewing Connector Pack Upgrade Information

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Administration > System.

Step 2

On the System page, click System Updates.

Information such as upgrade request ID, user that initiated the upgrade, upgrade start time and end time, and the upgrade status are displayed.

Step 3

Select a connector pack and choose View Details to view details such as connector pack name, upgraded version, and prior version.

Step 4

Click State History to view the various states of the connector pack upgrade process. For example, upgrade request received, upgrade process initiated or upgrade process completed.

Step 5

Click Stages to view the entire lifecycle of the connector pack upgrade request.

New and Changed Features in Release 6.6.0.1

There are only bug fixes in this release.

Open Bugs

All open bugs for this release are available in the Cisco Bug Search Tool.

Bug ID

Headline

CSCvk21740

Create and Delete Filesystem pool tasks are missing in VNX-File.

Resolved Bugs

All resolved bugs for this release are available in the Cisco Bug Search Tool.

Bug ID

Headline

CSCvk13501

Resize NFS data store fails when the NAS server is associated with more than one file interface.

CSCvj39278

Datastore resize fails when two duplicate unity accounts are added and the first account is deleted.

CSCvj55324

Incorrect soft and hard limits shown in User and Tree quota reports when we provide limits in MB.

CSCvj39519

Issues in hard limit and soft limt with Create Tree quota and user quota tasks.

CSCvj78756

Distributed Group and Secondary RPAs column values are incorrectly displayed for Distributed Consistency group.

CSCvk11870

Adding Isilon account with incorrect username/password is not displaying proper error message.

CSCvj39698

Creating NFS export fails while using CREATE_ISILON_NFS_EXPORT restapi.

CSCvi92461

Storage pool duplicate entries are found for VNX account.

CSCvk30291

NFS export points to empty drill down report for VNX File and Unified accounts.

CSCvk21869

VNX(VNX block and File) localization issues.

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Cisco Bug Search Tool

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