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Release Notes for Cisco UCS Software, Release 2.0

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Release Notes for Cisco UCS Software, Release 2.0

Contents

Introduction

System Requirements

Updating Cisco UCS Versions

Hardware and Software Interoperability

Internal Dependencies

Capability Catalog

Known Limitations and Behaviors

Resolved Caveats

Open Caveats

Open Caveats from Prior Releases

Release 1.2(1)

Release 1.1(1)

Release 1.0(2)

Release 1.0(1)

New Hardware Features in Release 2.0(1)

New Software Features in Release 2.0(1)

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request


Release Notes for Cisco UCS Software, Release 2.0


First Published: September 19, 2011
Updated: February 9, 2012
Part Number: OL-25363-01

This document describes the new features, system requirements, and caveats for Cisco UCS Manager Release 2.0(1m), Release 2.0(1q), Release 2.0(1s), Release 2.0(1t), Release 2.0(1w) and all related firmware and BIOSes on blade servers and other Unified Computing System components associated with that release. Use this document in conjunction with the documents listed in the Documentation Roadmap.


Note We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates. Documentation updates and errata are also in these release notes. The documentation roadmap for this product is available at: http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/b-series-doc


Table 1 shows the online change history for this document.

Table 1 Online History Change 

Part Number
Revision
Date
Description

OL-25363-01

A0

September 19, 2011

Created release notes for Release 2.0(1m). 1

B0

October 14, 2011

Updated release notes for Release 2.0(1q).

C0

November 8, 2011

Updated release notes for Release 2.0(1s).

D0

November 29, 2011

Updated release notes for Release 2.0(1t).

E0

December 15, 2011

Updated release notes for Catalog Release 2.0.1o.T.

F0

February 9, 2012

Updated release notes for Release 2.0(1w).

1 This release was removed from the download area due to CSCts96949 and CSCts86890. See the software deferral notice.


Contents

This document includes the following sections:

"Introduction" section

"System Requirements" section

"Updating Cisco UCS Versions" section

"Known Limitations and Behaviors" section

"Resolved Caveats" section

"Open Caveats" section

"New Hardware Features in Release 2.0(1)" section

"New Software Features in Release 2.0(1)" section

"Related Documentation" section

"Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request" section

Introduction

The Cisco® Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated, scalable, multi-chassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain.

System Requirements

To install Cisco UCS Manager your computer must meet or exceed the following minimum system requirements:

The Cisco UCS Manager GUI is a Java-based application that requires Sun JRE 1.6 or higher (32 bit version only due to the lack of 64 bit native libraries for the KVM/VMedia; the 32 bit JRE can be executed in both win32 and Win64, as well as linux 32 and 64).

UCS Manager uses web start and supports the following web browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or higher

Adobe Flash Player 10 or higher is required for some features

UCS Manager is supported on the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows XP

Microsoft Windows Vista

Microsoft Windows 7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 or higher

Updating Cisco UCS Versions

To update the Cisco UCS software and firmware, refer to the appropriate Upgrading Cisco UCS document for your installation.

Use the scope firmware and show package filename expand CLI commands to view the contents of a given release package. File names in Table 2 are accurate for the 2.0(1) release, expect small changes for subsequent patch releases.

Table 2 Files in Release 2.0(1)

CCO Software Type
File name(s)
Comment

SWT Unified Computing System (UCS) Infrastructure Software Bundle

ucs-k9-bundle-infra.2.0.1q.A.bin

Switch software, CMC/IOM software, and UCS Manager

SWT Unified Computing System (UCS) Server Software

ucs-k9-bundle-b-series.2.0.1q.B.bin

ucs-k9-bundle-c-series.2.0.1q.C.bin

Server-side BIOS, CIMC, and other firmware images for blades (B) and rack servers (C)

SWT Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager Capability Catalog

ucs-catalog.2.0.1m.T.bin

UCS Manager capability catalog image

SWT Unified Computing System (UCS) Tools and Drivers Bundle

ucs-bxxx-drivers.2.0.1.iso
ucs-b2xx-utils-linux.2.0.1.iso
ucs-b2xx-utils-vmware.2.0.1.iso
ucs-b2xx-utils-windows.2.0.1.iso

ISO images of UCS drivers and utilities


Hardware and Software Interoperability

For detailed information about storage switch, operating system, adapter, adapter utility, and storage array interoperability, see the Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix for this release, located at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html


Note VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5 Update 4, and ESX and ESXi 4.0 are not compatible with Intel 56xx processors. 55xx processors are not affected by this limitation. Please refer to the interoperability matrix for this release for OS and other support questions.


Internal Dependencies

Table 3 shows interdependencies between UCS hardware and versions of Cisco UCS Manager. Server FRU items like DIMMs are dependent on their server type, and chassis items like fans and power supplies work with all versions of UCS Manager.


Caution You can not mix component software versions (e.g you can not have a B200 using the 1.0(1) BIOS with a UCS M81KR adapter running 1.0(2) firmware managed by UCS Manager 1.3(1)). Compare the minimum software version for all your components and use at least the latest of all the versions, or use the most current version of software for all components. Mixing M1 and M2 hardware versions is not an issue provided they are running software at a version matching the other system components.

Table 3 Internal Dependencies (continued)

Component
Minimum
Software
Version
Recommended
Software
Version
Servers

B200 M1

1.0(1)

2.0(1)

B250 M1

1.1(1)

2.0(1)

B440 M1

1.3(1)

2.0(1)

B440 M2

1.4(3)

2.0(1)

B200 M2

1.2(1)

2.0(1)

B250 M2

1.2(1)

2.0(1)

B230 M1

1.4(1)

2.0(1)

B230 M2

1.4(3)

2.0(1)

C200 M2

1.4(1)

2.0(1)

C210 M2

1.4(1)

2.0(1)

C250 M2

1.4(1)

2.0(1)

Adapters

UCS 82598KR-CI
UCS M71KR-E
UCS M71KR-Q

1.0(1)

2.0(1)

UCS M81KR

1.0(2)

2.0(1)

UCS NIC M51KR-B
UCS CNA M61KR-I 1
UCS CNA M72KR-Q
UCS CNA M72KR-E

1.3(1)

2.0(1)

Fabric Interconnect

UCS 6120XP

1.0(1)

2.0(1)

UCS 6140XP

1.1(1)

2.0(1)

UCS 6248UP

2.0(1)

2.0(1)

Fabric Extender or I/OM

UCS 2104

1.0(1)

2.0(1)

UCS 2208XP

2.0(1)

2.0(1)

Nexus 2248

1.4(1)

2.0(1)

Fabric Interconnect
Expansion Modules

N10-E0440
N10-E0600
N10-E0080

1.0(1)

2.0(1)

N10-E0060

1.1(1)

2.0(1)

UCS-FI-E16UP

2.0(1)

2.0(1)

10 GB connections

SFP-10G-SR, SFP-10G-LR
SFP-H10GB-CU1M
SFP-H10GB-CU3M
SFP-H10GB-CU5M

1.0(1)

2.0(1)

SFP-H10GB-ACU7M
SFP-H10GB-ACU10M

1.4(1)

2.0(1)

FET-10G

1.4(1)

2.0(1)

SFP-H10GB-ACU7M=
SFP-H10GB-ACU10M=

1.4(2)

2.0(1)

8 GB connections (FC expansion module N10-E0060)

DS-SFP-FC8G-SW
DS-SFP-FC8G-LW

1.3(1)

2.0(1)

4 GB connections (FC expansion module N10-E0080)

DS-SFP-FC4G-SW
DS-SFP-FC4G-LW

1.0(1)

2.0(1)

1 GB connections

GLC-T (V03 or higher)
GLC-SX-MM
GLC-LH-SM

1.3(1)

2.0(1)

1 N20-AI0002, the Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter, is not supported on the B440 server but is still available for other models. We suggest you use the Cisco UCS CNA M61KR-I Intel Converged Network Adapter in place of the Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter.

Capability Catalog

Cisco UCS Manager uses the catalog to update the display and configurability of server components such as newly qualified DIMMs and disk drives. The UCS Manager Capability Catalog is a single image, but it's also embedded in UCS Manager. The latest posted catalog should work with any posted release from release 1.3(1) onwards. This means that so long as a server component is not dependent on a specific BIOS version, using it and having it recognized by UCS Manager is primarily a function of the catalog version. The catalog is released as single image in some cases for convenience purposes in addition to being bundled with UCS infrastructure releases. Refer to Table 4 for details on the mapping of versions to bundles.

Table 4 Version Mapping

UCS Release
Catalog File
Adds Support for PID

2.0(1m)

ucs-catalog.2.0.1j.T.bin

 

2.0(1q) and 2.0(1s)

ucs-catalog.2.0.1m.T.bin

UCS-MR-2X324RX-C on B440 M2

 

ucs-catalog.2.0.1o.T.bin 1

UCS-CPU-X5687 on B200 M2

UCSB-PSU-2500DC48 on the DC UCS 5108 chassis (UCSB-5108-DC)

UCS-HDD900GI2F106 on C200 and C210

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 on C200 and C210

1 Available for separate download.


Further details are in the UCS Manager GUI Configuration Guide.

Known Limitations and Behaviors

The following known limitations found in release 2.0(1) are not otherwise documented:

Cisco UCS Manager

When using the Windows VIRTIO driver in a Virtual machine, Ethernet performance is very poor compared to Linux VMs. Red Hat reports VIRTIO currently does not support GRO (generic receive offload). The workaround is to disable GRO using the ethtool -K <interface> gro off command.

A bonded interface will not start as a slave if the MASTER value is in double quotes. You will not be able to create NIC teaming (Channel bonding) with 3rd party adapters.

The HDD fault monitoring feature cannot detect failures in all possible circumstances. The disk controller may report the disk as operable even though some blocks are marked "Unknown". In this circumstance, RAID creation will fail. There is no workaround.

When trying to configure FC uplink or VSAN as FC traffic monitoring source, an error message appears stating "Error creating mon-src-mysession. FC Port (1/29) cannot be configured as ingress SPAN source due to hardware limitation." This only happens on UCS 6200 Fabric Interconnects. ASICs in these FI do not allow a FC port or VSAN to be added as a SPAN (traffic monitoring session) source. There is no workaround. You can still can add a VFC as a source for an Ethernet traffic monitoring session.

When UCS Manager and fabric interconnect activation are done together, the switch upgrade can take longer than usual. This may happen when not following the published upgrade procedure.

On an adapter configured with two iSCSI VNICs, only the iSCSI VNIC designated as Primary in boot order will post the discovered iSCSI LUN to the BIOS and write an iBFT entry to the host memory during boot. There is no workaround.

After an upgrade from a prior release to 2.0(1) a critical fault may be raised about an overlapping or matching FCoE VLAN ID used for a vSAN and an Ethernet VLAN ID under the same fabric as the FCoE VLAN. Raising a fault is the correct behavior under this circumstance. The fault can be avoided by changing either the FCoE VLAN ID or the Ethernet VLAN ID so that they have two different IDs prior to upgrade. Resolving the problem after the upgrade may lead to down time for the system. See the Software Advisory.

When using UCS Manager Release 2.0, BIOS versions from 1.4 software versions may be listed. If these versions are selected when attempting BIOS recovery, the result is system boot failure in B440 and B200 blades, the recovery may not complete and the system may be permanently damaged or unrecoverable. You must choose to recover the BIOS to a BIOS version from the 2.0 software release.

OS

If during RHEL 5.x installation to an iSCSI LUN on a blade with a Broadcom M51KR-B adapter RHEL 5.x does not detect the iSCSI LUN during OS installation, select the Broadcom M51KR-B port during the install and manually assign the initiator IP address, subnet mask, and gateway with the values from the service profile.

Fabric Interconnect

When UCS is connected to an upstream N7K (running 4.2.4 version) using port-channels, and if the port channel is configured as LACP passive on the N7K side, it is possible that under high system stress situation, LACP may not be able to converge for the port channel. The work around is to avoid native VLAN configuration change while system instability is in place or CPU utilization is high. Using LACP active on N7K also reduces the likelihood of the problem occurring.

Per- packet Veth statistics for the UCS M81KR adapter are no longer supported, and will display as 0. Supported statistics are now packets, packets mcast, packets bcast, Bytes, and packets dropped. When SAN port channel or a HIF port channel has FC traffic flowing through them, any link flap in the port channel can cause the FC traffic to be impacted or lost. Even multipathing does not help the FC traffic to continue as the VFC is operationally up via the other links of the port channel. Traffic will recover after a short while, but increasing SCSI timer settings can help.

BIOS

When the BIOS is upgraded on a B230-M1 blade from Release 2.0(1m) to Release 2.0(1q) or later, the PCI bus enumeration will shift by one bus number. This renumbering can cause certain operating systems like VMware ESX or Windows to see the old vNICs and vHBAs with the new PCI address and could result in those interfaces being inoperable unless the configuration is changed in the OS. In case of ESX, a workaround is to edit the esx.conf with the new PCI address and to modify the vswitch configuration. This issue results from the resolution of Caveat CSCts86890, and affects only the upgrade of this specific server between these two specific releases. See the Software Advisory.

Downgrade Issues

After downgrading from UCS Manager 2.0 to 1.4(1) or 1.4(2), the fabric interconnect can become unstable and fail to boot. This is usually due to having enabled features specific to release 2.0 that are not available in the earlier release and neglecting to disable those features before attempting the downgrade. In general, it is best to contact TAC and have them walk through a downgrade with you rather than attempt it unassisted.

Resolved Caveats

The following caveats are resolved in the 2.0(1w) release:

When activating a firmware image for a blade controller, only PLD images appropriate for that blade are available as menu selections in the GUI. (CSCtw73436)

The latest Board Controller version now shows up in the GUI drop down list for the B250 server. (CSCtw99501)

Generating a show tech-support output from CLI or UCS Manager no longer causes a stuck object in UCSM that reads as a timeout in the CLI. (CSCts98411)

Upgrading the Board Controller image on B250 M1/M2 blades is now supported. (CSCtw70911)

The software no longer experiences a connectivity flap after a shallow association, which can be caused by a process restart or IOModule link flap.(CSCts60501)

A VNIC with the active path set to FI-B will no longer go to a non-participating state. (CSCtw65162)

Multiple Chassis decommision/recommision operations no longer result in incorrect computation of the access port VLAN count. (CSCtu22407)

The VIM no longer crashes unexpectedly. (CSCtx06311)

SAN connectivity is no longer lost during UCS software upgrade. (CSCtv21887)

The following caveats are resolved in the 2.0(1t) release:

The Fabric Interconnect no longer reboots unexpectedly with an SNMP error message. (CSCtt99770)

A Guest VM running RHEL no longer loses all inbound network traffic after the guest VM is migrated from one host to another host. (CSCtu22633)

An HIF port seen on the interconnect will no longer go down for few seconds and then comes back up. This is primarily due to an adapter firmware crash and restart. (CSCts86550)

After enabling hyper-v in Windows 2008 R2 SP1 then rebooting, the server no longer shows a black KVM screen and a failire of windows startup and login. (CSCtu30346)

The following caveats are resolved in the 2.0(1s) release:

IOM backplane port 1 of a 5108 chassis will not be falsely reported as administratively down when a blade is present in slot-1 of the chassis. (CSCtt27260)

After upgrade to 2.0(1s), blades with UCS M81KR adapters will not show the error "initialize error 4" during FC boot. (CSCtt18526)

While upgrading to UCS 2.0 with QoS policies defined , QoS policies will not generate error messages and VIFs with QoS policies defined on them will remain up after upgrading the subordinate interconnect but before upgrading the primary interconnect. During the upgrade there is no longer a period of downtime between when the primary restarts and when the secondary becomes primary and brings up its VIFs, and there is no longer lost connectivity to both LAN and SAN. (CSCtt41541)

The following caveats are resolved in the 2.0(1q) release:

Cisco UCS Manager

Using the UCSM GUI, you are now able to disassociate a service profile that is currently bound to a template. (CSCts95454)

When you assign an org to a locale from the GUI, the operation sometimes fails due to an internal error. This error is now corrected. (CSCts60863)

The PCI Device address of a VNIC will not change after an upgrade of UCS Manager from Release 1.x to Release 2.0(1q). (CSCts96949)

When the DHCP server is using an option 67 (RFC 2132) to report the bootfile name to the gPXE client, gPXE will receive the boot parameters and the boot will function normally. (CSCts86689)

BIOS

When the BIOS is upgraded on a B230-M1 blade from Release 1.x to Release 2.0, the PCI address is preserved. (CSCts86890)


Note In the "Known Limitations and Behaviors" section, see the BIOS section for issues when upgrading the B230-M1 BIOS from Release 2.0(1m) to Release 2.0(1q) or later.


A B230-M1 blade discovered while running 1.4 BIOS release image and now running a UCS 2.0 release BIOS image will associate and disassociate normally. (CSCtj54470)

The show mac address-table aging-time vlan x command or running an SNMP agent querying this SNMP object will no longer cause an unexpected reboot. (CSCtt12615)

If the hostname is configured for the vCenter in UCS Manager and the DNS server is not replying with the hostname to IP mapping within 30 seconds, the VMS process will no longer crash unexpectedly. (CSCtt18508)

A Blade with a service profile with a 22 character or longer name will boot as expected from the local disk after upgrading the BIOS from a 1.x release to the BIOS in the 2.0(1q) release. (CSCtt13313)

The following caveats are resolved in the 2.0(1m) release:

Cisco UCS Manager

100GB SSD Cache Size is correctly reported as 256KB in UCS Manager. (CSCts36501)

When a DIMM is detected by the CIMC as present but SMBIOS table 203 shows it as either failed or ignored, the DIMM will show up with location information with the correct value for the speed. (CSCtj96263)

The MAC sync feature introduced in the 1.4.1 release of UCS keeps the VNIC MAC address in sync between the Fabric Interconnects. This feature is now automatically enabled for service profiles that were associated and active before upgrade to the 2.0 version of UCS Manager and Fabric Interconnect software. (CSCtl05696)

The UCS Manager GUI will no longer mistakenly show all DIMMs to be in array 1 on a B200. (CSCta56527)

Dynamic vNIC creation no longer fails with a message saying the port profile is not available in NPPM. (CSCtj17237)

SNMP authentication no longer fails when using user details configured from a third party authentication server like RADIUS. (CSCtg94770)

After upgrading to the 2.0 release, VLAN 4048 is not mis-configured for a FCoE vSAN mapping and reset to VLAN 1. (CSCto55519)

When an earlier version of a management extension didn't support a BIOS token, but a newer version of the management extensions supports that BIOS token, new tokens will now be displayed in the BIOS Defaults GUI and are deployed to the blade server. (CSCto85358)

100GB SSD discovery works as expected in the blade and rack servers. Upgrade to UCS 2.0 before using these drives. (CSCtq98495)

Fabric Interconnect

Associated or discovered rack servers will come up after downgrading only UCS Manager from the 2.0 release to lower releases, then returning to 2.0 from lower releases. (CSCtn84605)

Rack Integration

Nexus 2248 Fabric Extenders no longer show up as a chassis after a downgrade from a 2.0 release, they are automatically decommissioned. (CSCtl91937)

Behavior of rack servers is now stable when using mixed adapter vendor types. (CSCti94883)

CIMC

For a B200-M2 when a blade is configured in Low Voltage mode, and a LPC reset is asserted, the 1.5V DDR3 sensors no longer cause threshold crossing SEL events. (CSCti68905)

Fans no longer erroneously show as inoperable when operating at 100%. (CSCtl43716)

Adapter Cards

VMs are updated correctly under the VM tab after a power cycle. (CSCtg91013)

VMware

ESXi installation no longer fails on RAID clusters with two SSDs on the B230 server. (CSCtj63157)

There is no longer a problem with installing ESXi 4.x on systems with Intel M61KR-I, Emulex M72KR-E, Broadcom M51KR-B or Qlogic M72KR-Q CNA Adapters. (CSCtj98207)

RAID Controller

If a hot spare drive is added in a B200 or B250 server when replacing a bad disk in the RAID array the Auto Rebuild functions as expected. (CSCtr66115)

BIOS

When a faulty DIMM is detected in early BIOS POST (e.g. the blade was powered on with a faulty DIMM), only one SEL entry will be sent to the CIMC. (CSCsy97698)

Network connection to CIMC is no longer lost intermittently after 400 host reboots or power-ons. (CSCtk63908)

Open Caveats

The following bugs were found in release 2.0(1m):

Symptom    During upgrade from UCS 1.4 to 2.0, an SSLCert error may be written to the log files.

Workaround   None. This is harmless and has not been found to impact functionality. (CSCtr10869)

Symptom    After kernel rebuild or yum update a server configured for SAN Boot of RHEL 5.6 or RHEL 5.7 may fail to boot. This is a Red Hat issue, and ticket 744330 has been filed. It is a private ticket that may be referenced when calling Red Hat support for more information.

Workaround   To recover the server, do the following:

Modify the /etc/modprobe.conf file to add the new entry "alias scsi_hostadapter2 fnic"

Also, if you have the entry "alias scsi_hostadapter2 usb-storage", modify it to: "alias scsi_hostadapter3 usb-storage" (CSCtq30308)

Symptom    While upgrading to UCS 2.0 with QoS policies defined , critical errors will be displayed for all QoS policies and VIFs with QoS policies defined on them will be down after upgrading the subordinate interconnect but before upgrading the primary interconnect. Expect that during the upgrade there will be a period of downtime between when the primary restarts and when the secondary becomes primary and brings up its VIFs. During this time all blades will lose their connectivity to both LAN and SAN.

Workaround   Completing the upgrade to 2.0 by upgrading the primary interconnect will clear these faults. Alternatively you can remove all QoS policies from the affected interfaces, allowing them to come up, complete the upgrade and then reapply the QoS policies with no downtime. This issue is resolved in the 2.0(1s) release. (CSCtt41541)

Symptom    A host configured for iSCSI boot will always boot off a LUN exported to the Primary iSCSI VNIC by default, as iBFT is always posted on the primary iSCSI vNIC. The secondary iSCSI vNIC will post iBFT in case the LUN discovery fails on the primary iSCSI vNIC. However, if the Secondary iSCSI vNIC comes up earlier than the Primary iSCSI vnic (due to its overlay vNIC having a lower PCI order than that of the overlay vNIC for the Primary) and LUN discovery fails on the Primary, then there is no iBFT posted and the host fails to boot.

Workaround   Ensure that the PCI order of the overlay vNIC for the Primary iSCSI vNIC is always lower than that of the overlay vNIC for the Secondary iSCSI vNIC. (CSCto59775)

Symptom    Network connectivity is affected (flapping on uplink ports) on both fabrics during operations such as native VLAN change when the configuration change is done on both interconnects at the same time.

Workaround   Schedule a maintenance window to perform such configuration changes, and perform the changes separately. (CSCtl04744)

Symptom    After upgrade to 2.0(1m), blades with UCS M81KR adapters may show the error "initialize error 4" during FC boot.

Workaround   Downgrade the adapter firmware to the previous version, or upgrade to the 2.0(1q) build. (CSCtt18526)

Open Caveats from Prior Releases

The following bugs were found in release 1.4(3q):

Symptom    When a UCS M81KR or UCS M71KR-E/Q (NIV) adaptor is used, and the isolated host is communicating using a MAC configured in the service profile (and registered at the interconnect via a VIC) PVLAN traffic does not flow for an isolated host. Using the show platform fwm info hw-stm command at the NX-OS prompt shows that the isolated host MAC is learned on the isolated VLAN, but not learned on the primary VLAN.

Workaround   No known workaround exists. You will need to upgrade to 2.0(1s). (CSCts53607)

The following bugs were found in release 1.4(2b):

Symptom    If the installed DIMMs do not have thermal sensors (the most likely cause as this warning is logged during initial system memory initialization) or the installed DIMMs exceeded the thermal threshold values programmed in either the memory controller or the Memory buffer, then the RankMargintest file in the CIMC shows the following warning code:

MRC - Warning Code:0x9 on Socket#1 Br#0 Ch#00, Ddr#00, Dimm#00, Rank#FF (if applicable)
MRC - Warning Code:0x9 on Socket#1 Br#0 Ch#00, Ddr#01, Dimm#00, Rank#FF (if applicable)

Workaround   None. The message is informational, and can be ignored. (CSCtn09020)

The following bugs were found in release 1.4(1i):

High Availability

Symptom    High Availability does not become ready until all 3 selected HA devices (chassis/rack-unit) have been discovered. The condition that triggers this problem is the fact that a previously functioning and fully discovered device (either chassis or rack mount server) has failed. This may be due to connectivity problems or faulty behavior. In this case the system remains in HA NOT READY state.

Workaround   The root of the problem is a failed device. Fixing the problem in the device is the first step. If the failure is persistent the faulty device can be decommissioned to resolve the problem. (CSCth17136)

Symptom    When UCS Manager is operated in High Availability mode, SNMP traps stop arriving as expected if the SNMP trap IP header source address field is set to the cluster virtual IP address.

Workaround   SNMP trap recipients must not use the SNMP trap IP header source address, or be prepared for it to contain the management IP address of the currently primary fabric interconnect. (CSCth69032)

BIOS

Symptom    Blade and Rack Servers that include unequal sized HDDs or SSDs have encountered various failures intermittently. UCS Manager reports "Error Configuring Local Disk Controller" in most cases during these failures, though other errors are also seen.

Workaround   Verify that the servers use equal sized disks from the same vendor. This ensures that all of the disks are of identical disk capacity. (CSCtk55618)

Symptom    The BIOS Setup shows less memory size and some DIMMs disabled on a B230. The SMBIOS table does not report memory info in Type 17 structure for the disabled DIMMs. The UCSM reports less memory size and some DIMMS disabled. This happens when the BIOS disables some DIMMs incorrectly when DIMMs on certain slots do not have the corresponding lockstep pairs installed. For example, configurations that can cause this failure include:

1. DIMM on slot C2 is not installed and slot C3 is installed - Causes DDR training failure that results in DIMM failure on slots C0,C1,C3,D0,D1,D2,D3.

2. DIMM on slot A1 is not installed - Disables DIMMs on slots A0, A2, A3. The NHM-EX CPU requires the DIMM0 in each DDR channel populated first before populating DIMM1 on that channel. This is an invalid configuration.

3. DIMM on slot B0 is not installed - Disables DIMMs on slots B1, B2, B3. The NHM-EX CPU requires the DIMM0 in each DDR channel populated first before populating DIMM1 on that channel. This is an invalid configuration.

Workaround   Always populate the DIMMs in lockstep pairs, as described in the user documentation. The lockstep-ed DIMM slot pairs are A0 & A1, A2 & A3, B0 & B1, B2 & B3, C0 & C1, C2 & C3, D0 & D, and D2 & D3. Also, it is recommended to populate the DIMMs in the following order. Blue slot pairs, White slot pairs, Yellow slot pairs, Black slot pairs. (CSCtj67835)

CIMC

Symptom    When using mirroring mode, if a UCE error happens, there is a Redundancy SEL event and also a UCE SEL event. No other details are available for the Data Parity error.

Workaround   None. (CSCti94391)

Adapters

Symptom    The link from the Rack server adapter to the fabric interconnect port remains down if the SFP type is FET (Fabric extender transceiver). Currently the FET type is supported only between a fabric extender and a fabric interconnect. If the SFP used for the link between the IOM and the rack server adapter is an FET, the link will remain down.

Workaround   Replace the SFP with one of the supported SFPs for rack server adapters. (CSCtj89468)

Symptom    CRC errors reported on an M81KR network interface on SLES 11 SP1. This is seen under High TX and RX traffic on SLES 11 SP1. The FIFO is not cleared as fast as it should because of some delays in the PCI path. An M81KR firmware devcmd storm from the host is also investigated to be one reason for the PCI stalls. These CRC errors are actually caused by FIFO overruns on the M81KR which are in turn caused by PCI stalls. They are not real CRC errors but truncated packets (due to FIFO overrun) flagged as CRC errors.

Workaround   Reduce the traffic load to reduce the reported CRC errors. This assumes that the CRC errors in question are generated on M81KR and that there are no bad packets entering the adapter. (CSCtj82445)

UCS Manager

Symptom    UCS Manager takes a long time to push configurations containing large number of port-profiles to the VMware Virtual Center (VC). This happens when large number of hosts and virtual machines (VMs) are configured (tested with 500 VMs on 60 hosts managed by same VC) and a large number of port-profiles assigned to multiple DVSes in the VCenter.

Symptom    Wait until the operations complete. Configuration FSM could take more than 30 minutes. Then, configure a smaller number of port-profiles (we've measured up to 92 profiles to successfully configure in around 5 minutes in above large number of hosts and VMs situation). (CSCtk97755)

Symptom    When 15 or more chassis are configured in release 1.4(1) and the system is downgraded to release 1.3(1), chassis beyond 14 are still there. This may cause some issues as the max chassis support enabled with the 1.3(1) release is 14.

Workaround   Manually decommission chassis in the system to keep the total number of chassis to 14 before downgrading to release 1.3(1) from 1.4(1). (CSCtk69231)

Symptom    When a rack server has a local disk installed, it does not report real-time disk operability status (disk operability is reported as "N/A").

Workaround   None. (CSCtj18969)

Symptom    When the UCS Manager shell mode is set to s either management or local-management mode, the CLI command terminal monitor is not available.

Workaround   Use the terminal command in NXOS mode. (CSCtj82918)

Symptom    The minimum power cap that can currently be set is 3400W. The chassis power cap has a lower limit of 3778 W (AC), which is internally converted to 3400 W (DC).

Workaround   Do not enter a cap below this requirement. This requirement was derived from the need to safely allow a chassis to simultaneously boot all blades in a chassis. (CSCtj62296)

Symptom    The UCS Manager shell does not support redirection of show command output to a remote file system.

Workaround   Redirect the output to a local file in either workspace: or volatile: and then transfer the file to the remote system using the cp command in local-mgmt mode. (CSCti87891)

Symptom    In UCS Manager there is no option to change the port speed of the SPAN destination port.

Workaround   Un-configure the SPAN destination port and make it an "uplink". Change the port speed on the uplink port, then reconfigure the port as a SPAN destination port. The port speed will be at the value that user set for the "uplink" port. (CSCti86217)

Symptom    UCS Manager reports an unsupported DIMM as missing but does not raise a fault.

Workaround   Verify that the DIMM is a Cisco DIMM supported on that server model. (CSCtj51582)

Symptom    If you delete an existing VMware data center objects & vCenter in the VM configuration tab, then create a new vCenter with the same IP address as previous VC server. UCS Manager sends an error stating "deletion of vCenter object is still in progress" and will not allow creation of new vCenter. The deletion of the previous vCenter had not succeeded and UCS Manager keeps retrying the deletion. Since 2 vCenters with same IP cannot exist in the system, UCS Manager disallows the second VC creation.

Workaround   Manually delete the deletion task. I n the CLI, use the show pending-deletion command to see pending deletion tasks then delete the appropriate task using the delete pending-deletion and commit-buffer commands. Using the GUI, the task can deleted by going to VM tab, then clicking VMware on left hand side, then going to the Deletion Tasks tab. (CSCtj03776)

UCS Manager GUI

Symptom    Non-disruptive pending changes may not be shown on a service profile. When a service profile has a maintenance policy that defers the application of disrupting changes to the server, user can see what changes are pending and make further changes. Disruptive pending changes are always visible on the service profile, whereas non-disruptive changes may not be shown. Non-disruptive pending changes are only shown for user convenience. This defect has no functional impact.

Workaround   None. (CSCtj57838)

UCS Manager CLI

Symptom    When VIF creation doesn't follow V-motion, NPPM doesn't move the VIF to a new dynamic and the stale VIF doesn't carry the traffic any more. This would cause the SPAN to stop monitoring the traffic from the original VM.

Workaround   Re-discover the AM's and re-create the SPAN. (CSCtj78998)

Fabric Interconnect

Symptom    Fabric interconnect activation during a downgrade from 1.4(1) to 1.3(1) will fail if the setup has an active Nexus 2248 fabric extender.

Workaround   Decommission all fabric extenders and rack-servers and completely decommission the FSM before downgrading the fabric interconnect image. (CSCtk35213)

Symptom    The server UUID displayed by ipmitool does not match that shown by the UCS Manager CLI. UCS UUID encoding follows pre SMBIOS 2.6 specified encoding, which is big-endian encoding. Ipmitool does not work well with that encoding. The SMBIOS 2.6 specification mandates mixed encoding (first 3 fields little-endian, last 3 big-endian), which is followed by ipmitool.

For example, The server detail from UCS Manager CLI shows -

    Dynamic UUID: 0699a6f3-1b81-45f8-a9f2-c1bbe089324e
# ipmitool -H 10.193.142.104 -U gurudev -P password mc guid
System GUID  : f3a69906-811b-f845-a9f2-c1bbe089324e

Compared to UCS Manager CLI or GUI output, the first 3 fields f3a69906-811b-f845 show up differently in the output of ipmitool.

Workaround   The following usage of ipmitool can be a workaround -

#ipmitool -H 10.193.142.104 -U gurudev -P password raw 0x06 0x37
 06 99 a6 f3 1b 81 45 f8 a9 f2 c1 bb e0 89 32 4e

The output matches the value printed by the UCS Manager CLI. (CSCtk09043)

Symptom    The show port-security NXOS CLI command returns a negative value for the Max Addresses. This will occur when a system is configured with more than 8192 Port VLAN instances and. port security is enabled on all interfaces such that more than 8192 MACs are secured.

Workaround   Do not configure port-security such that secured Port VLAN instances is more than 8192. (CSCtj10809)

Symptom    When an N2XX-ACPCI01 adapter port on a C-series server is connected to an uplink port on a UCS 6100 fabric interconnect, a fault message should appear because this connection is not supported, but there is no such fault message for this situation in this release.

Workaround   None. (CSCti85875)

CIMC

Symptom    Rack server does not show up in GUI or CLI within reasonable delay after a recommission. This happens when a rack server is recommissioned within a very short time of its decommissioning. The server has a DHCP lease expiration time from when it was decommissioned, which is a few minutes.

Workaround   After decommissioning, wait a few minutes before recommissioning a rack server. (CSCtj55009)

Symptom    The Blade CIMstic management IP address assignment is not included in backups.

Workaround   Manually record the blade CIMC static management IP address assignments, and re-enter them if necessary. (CSCtj93577)

RAID/Local Disk

Symptom    UCS Manager fails to report the Local Disk Failures, Faults, Alarms, Status and Disk Errors/Error Codes from the MegaRAID Controller on the B440 server.

Workaround   None. (CSCtf73879)

Symptom    For the B200 and B250 blade servers, the Local Disks 'Operability' field is reported as "N/A". The 'Operability' field of the Local Disks in B200 and B250 is expected to have a correct value and should not be reporting 'N/A'.

Workaround   None. (CSCtj03021)

Symptom    For the MegaRAID Controller on the B440 blade server, UCS Manager fails to report BBU Status, Properties and Errors.

Workaround   None. (CSCtf84982)

Symptom    If one or more conditions are met, UCS Manager fails to capture certain Local Disk errors. Conditions include: Mixing the SAS and SATA Local Disks in the same server; Disk spin-up or disks present but not reaching 'Ready' state; Missing Disks.

Workaround   None. (CSCtj48519)

Symptom    UCS Manager does not include the implementation for the Write Through, Write Back, and Write back with BBU MegaRAID Battery (BBU) Write Policies for the B440 server.

Workaround   None. (CSCtf17708)

Symptom    C210 and C250 rack servers are missing RAID 50 and RAID 60 support.

Workaround   None. (CSCti39470)

Symptom    UCS Manager fails to create a single disk striped RAID config in the Storage Controller 1064E environment.

Workaround   None. (CSCtj89447)

Release 1.2(1)

The following caveats were opened in Release 1.2(1):

Red Hat Linux

Symptom    Loading multiple driver disks during a RHEL 5.x installation fails.

Workaround   Please refer to the article at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-17753 (CSCte73015)

BIOS

Symptom    Hubs that only use USB 1.0 may not properly present an attached USB device to the UCS server.

Workaround   Avoid using USB hubs that are exclusively USB 1.0 capable. Virtually all USB hubs sold today are USB 1.0/2.0 capable. (CSCtb20301)

Cisco UCS Manager

Symptom    The PCIe Address for the Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card is not seen in the GUI (or CLI). It causes no functional impact.

Workaround   The only work around is to boot some host OS onto the blade and then determine the PCI address and map it to the MAC address (and subsequently to the VNIC). In a 2.6 kernel based Linux for instance, the /sys/class/net/<device> directory has relevant information. (CSCte58483)

Symptom    Modification of trusted CoS policy in Service Profile does not get immediately applied to the server. If you modify the trusted CoS policy of an adapter profile in a service profile that is currently attached to a physical server, a server reboot is needed. Since it is unsafe to automatically reboot an associated server, UCSM currently does not.

Workaround   Manually reboot the server or disassociate and reassociate the server to get the CoS policy to be applied. (CSCte44668)

Symptom    For each Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, 2 interfaces show up in the OS and ethtool reports Link Detected = yes for both of them. This is only seen on Cisco UCS B250 servers.

Workaround   Use the MAC that has the value provisioned in the service profile. (CSCtd14055)

Cisco UCS Manager GUI

Symptom    When upgrading from releases prior to 1.1.1, OS-specific default adapter policies will not have the current recommended default values.

Workaround   After an upgrade from a release prior to 1.1.1, we recommend manually changing the adapter policy parameters to the following values:

Eth VMWare->RSS: Disabled
Eth VMWarePassThru->RSS: Enabled
Eth default->RSS: Enabled
FC (all)->FCP Error Recovery: Disabled
FC (all)->Flogi Retries: 8
FC (all)->Flogi Timeout: 4000
FC (all)->Plogi Timeout: 20000
FC (all)->IO Throttle Count: 16
FC (all)->Max LUNs Per Target: 256 

(CSCte58155)

Symptom    Logon access is denied for user accounts where the password field was left blank during user account creation.

Workaround   When creating a user account, ensure that a secure password for the account is specified. (CSCta21326)

Release 1.1(1)

This section lists the open caveats in release 1.1(1j).

BIOS

Symptom    With the B-250 blade server, the displayed ESX and Linux OS HDD Boot Device Order is the reverse of the BIOS HDD Boot Order.

Workaround   Review both the disks (and drive labels as applicable) during installations of ESX and Linux versions and choose the correct disk for installation. (CSCtd90695)

Symptom    FSM gets stuck in an Error Configuring the Local Disk Controller state due to various underlying conditions. Those can include but are not limited to the following:

The Local Disks not getting discovered correctly or are "available/presence-Equipped" but not in a Ready state.

Failures that can't be correctly communicated to Cisco UCS Manager can get reported as this type of error.

Workaround   Remove and insert all of the local disks from the failing server, then re-acknowledge the server. (CSCta45805)

Symptom    The Disk Fault/Error Codes, Disk Status, Alarms and the failures forwarded by the SAS Controller are not received by Cisco UCS Manager.

Workaround   None. (CSCsy76853)

Symptom    After resetting the CMOS the system date needs to be reset to current.

Workaround   None. (CSCtb12390)

Red Hat Linux

Symptom    When a vNIC is not in failover mode and a link down event occurs, the network traffic on the blades is disrupted with a system running RHEL 5.3.

Workaround   This is a known issue with the ixgbe driver in RHEL 5.3 and because RHEL 5.4 is the latest release, Red Hat recommends upgrading the systems to the RHEL 5.4. If you cannot upgrade to RHEL 5.4, below are a few suggestions that has been found to work.

1. Restart the network.

service network restart

or

ifdown ethx 
ifup ethx  

2. Run your system with nomsi.

Edit /etc/grub.conf

Add pci=nomsi to the kernel line

Restart the system with this kernel

Note that network performance may be affected since the system is running in legacy mode. (CSCte44548)

Cisco UCS Manager

Symptom    After the removal or insertion of one or more local disks, their full discovery fails.

Workaround   Re-acknowledge the server to complete the full discovery. (CSCsy80888)

Symptom    For a given port profile with existing VIFs, if the "Max-Ports" setting is reduced from the currently configured value to a value less than the "Used-Ports" value reported for that port profile by VMware vCenter, this is a mis-configuration. The new value for "Max-Ports" for that port profile will only be updated in Cisco UCS Manager and its update in VMware Center will fail, causing a inconsistency between Cisco UCS Manager and VMware Center Server.

Workaround   If the need arises to reduce the value of "Max-Ports" of a given port profile, the new value should be at least the value of "Used-Ports" reported by the VMware Center for all the DVSes for that port profile (not lower than maximum of all the "Used-Ports" values). This constraint has to be ensured manually. (CSCte12163)

Cisco UCS Manager GUI

Symptom    When a cluster configuration is set up such that I/O module 1 goes to fabric interconnect B and I/O module 2 goes to fabric interconnect A, then the Ethernet devices are given ports 1 and 0. However if the setup is straight, with I/O Module 1 connected to fabric interconnect A and I/O Module 2 to fabric interconnect B, then the devices are assigned ports 0 and 1.

Workaround   Connect IOM1 to fabric-interconnect A, and IOM2 to fabric-interconnect B. (CSCtb35660)

UCS Manager CLI

Symptom    The UUID of the VM changes in VMware vCenter. After a VM restarts, the virtual machine node on the VM tab shows multiple instances of the same VM with one online and one offline.

Workaround   After the VM retention period configured in the VM lifecycle policy has passed, Cisco UCS Manager deletes the offline instance automatically. (CSCtc86297)

Release 1.0(2)

The following caveats were opened in UCS software release 1.0(2) and are still unresolved.

BIOS

Symptom    With various Local Disk Configurations, the LSI SAS Configuration Utility fails to launch while in BIOS.

Workaround   The LSI SAS Controller Utility should not be used and all of the Local Disk Policy and Service Profile operations must be executed using UCS Manager. (CSCtc21336)

Symptom    When the memory mirroring configuration is destroyed by removing a DIMM, the BIOS will switch to the Performance mode, and will not log a message that mirroring was disabled.

Workaround   Check the status of the memory mirroring in BIOS Setup->Advanced -> Memory Configuration -> Memory RAS and Performance Configuration. (CSCsy54097)

Symptom    When plugging or removing USB devices at BIOS Setup -> Advanced -> USB, the Setup Utility may hang.

Workaround   Reboot the server. (CSCsz41907)

Fabric Interconnect

HTTP

Symptom    HTTPD process crashed, with the following event log:

Process crashed. Core file 1253640662_SAM_ucs-6120-1-A_httpd_log.3114.tar.gz (SAM/Switch Core Dump) detected on fabric interconnect A

Workaround   None. (CSCtc13234)

UCS Manager GUI

Symptom    When waking up from sleep, the UCS Manager GUI will detect an event sequencing error and display the error: "Event Sequencing is skewed" because the JRE doesn't have a sleep detection mechanism.

Workaround   Always shut down the UCSM GUI before putting your computer to sleep. (CSCta94641)

Symptom    Downloads may be slow if TFTP is used.

Workaround   If TFTP performance is slow, use SCP or another protocol. (CSCtb45761)

Release 1.0(1)

The following caveats were opened in UCS software release 1.0(1e) and are still present.

AAA

Symptom    Local user passwords can not contain "$" character.

Workaround   Do not include the "$" character in local user passwords. (CSCsz44814)

Adapters

Symptom    When a service profile containing two vNICs and having failover enabled is applied to QLogic or Emulex CNAs, the failback timeout specified in the adapter policy for the second vNIC has no effect. The failback timeout specified in the adapter policy and applied to the first vNIC is applied to the whole adapter and is effective for both vNICs.

Workaround   Specify the desired failback timeout in the adapter policy and apply to the first vNIC. (CSCsz68887)

BIOS

Symptom    Installing EFI Native SLES 11 is currently not supported.

Workaround   None. (CSCsz99666)

Symptom    One vNIC defined in the UCS Manager service profile boot order results in two BIOS vNICs.

Workaround   Avoid defining two different pxelinux.cfg/<MAC> files that have different boot/install instructions. When booted, both vNICs should execute the same PXE configuration. (CSCsz41107)

Fabric Interconnect

Symptom    When a fabric interconnect boots, the "The startup-config won't be used until the next reboot" message appears on the console. Fabric interconnect configuration is controlled by the UCS Manager, so this message has no meaning on the fabric interconnect configuration and has no functional impact.

Workaround   None. (CSCsx13134)

Symptom    Console logon user names on the fabric interconnect are not case sensitive. For example, there is no differentiation between admin and ADMIN.

Workaround   Use case insensitive user names. (CSCsy15489)

Symptom    When the system is under high stress, with repeated port flapping (ports rapidly going up and down) and default (native) VLAN change, the FWM process may core and cause the fabric interconnect to reload.

Workaround   None. (CSCta09325)

Symptom    The show cdp neighbor CLI command does not display information for CDP neighbors seen from the management interface, nor does it display the fabric interconnect CDP information corresponding to the management interface.

Workaround   None. (CSCta25287)

Faults and Alerts

Symptom    In rare cases the UCS Manager reports the link absence fault between the fabric interconnect server port and the fabric extender during the internal inventory collection. The following is an example of such a fault:

*************************** 
Severity: Cleared 
Code: F0367 
Last Transition Time: 2009-07-15T11:47:49 
ID: 646445 
Status: None 
Description: No link between fabric extender port 2/1/1 and switch A:1/9 
Affected Object: sys/chassis-2/slot-1/fabric/port-1 
Name: Ether Switch Intfio Satellite Connection Absent Cause: Satellite Connection 
Absent 
Type: Connectivity 
Acknowledged: No 
Occurences: 1 
Creation Time: 2009-07-15T11:46:49 
Original Severity: Major 
Previous Severity: Major 
Highest Severity: Major 
******************************* 

Workaround   Ignore the fault message; it will automatically get cleared after one minute. This will not impact the data path. (CSCta76573)

Inventory

Symptom    Hardware revision numbers for fabric interconnect components are not populated in the UCS Manager.

Workaround   Perform the following steps to determine the revision number for a fabric interconnect component:

1. Enter the connect nxos command to connect to the native NX-OS CLI.

2. Enter the appropriate show sprom component command and look for H/W Version: field in the command output. (CSCta12005)

Server

Symptom    The disk scrub policy needs enhancements to meet DOD compliance.

Workaround   None. (CSCsy20036)

SNMP

Symptom    SNMP shows the fabric interconnect name rather than system name.

Workaround   None. (CSCta22029)

Symptom    An SNMP user name can not be the same as a local user name.

Workaround   Select an SNMP user name that does not match any local user name. (CSCta24034)

SMASH

Symptom    Any SMASH command entered with wrong option should give "INVALID OPTION" error message.

Workaround   None. (CSCsv87256)

UCS Manager CLI

Symptom    Statistics counters cannot be cleared using the UCS Manager CLI.

Workaround   Clear the counters using the UCS Manager GUI. (CSCsz47512)

UCS Manager GUI

Symptom    When several KVM Consoles are launched, the SUN JRE sometimes reports an error and the KVM Console fails to launch.

Workaround   Launch the KVM Console again. (CSCta38463)

Symptom    In the UCS Manager GUI, if the Reboot on boot Order Change checkbox is checked for a boot policy, and if CD-ROM or Floppy is the last device in the boot order, then deleting or adding the device does not directly affect the boot order and the server does not reboot.

Workaround   None. (CSCta54895)

Symptom    Fibre Channel port and server port events do not appear on the Fibre Channel port and server port Events tabs.

Workaround   Look on the Admin Events tab for Fibre Channel port and server port events. (CSCta66375)

New Hardware Features in Release 2.0(1)

Release 2.0(1w) adds support for:

Version 2 of UCS B440 M1 and M2 Blade Servers. This new hardware version is part of a proactive replacement program. See Field Notice 63430 for further details.

Release 2.0(1s) adds support for:

Intel Xeon x5687 CPU on B200 M2

Release 2.0(1m) adds support for:

Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric interconnect

Cisco 2208 IO Module

2500 Watt DC Power Supply for the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis

New Software Features in Release 2.0(1)

Release 2.0(1) adds support for:

Licensing - Updated information for new UCS hardware.

Firmware Bundle Option - Enables you to select a bundle instead of a version when updating firmware using the Cisco UCS Manager GUI.

Disk Drive Monitoring Support - Support for disk drive monitoring on certain blade servers and a specific LSI storage controller firmware level.

iSCSI Boot - iSCSI boot enables a server to boot its operating system from an iSCSI target machine located remotely over a network.

Pre-login Banner - Displays user-defined banner text prior to login when a user logs into Cisco UCS Manager using the GUI or CLI.

Unified Ports - Unified ports are ports on the 6200 series fabric interconnect that can be configured to carry either Ethernet or Fibre Channel traffic.

Upstream Disjoint Layer-2 Networks - Enables you to configure Cisco UCS to communicate with upstream disjoint layer-2 networks.

Virtual Interfaces - The number of vNICs and vHBAs configurable for a service profile is determined by adapter capability and the amount of virtual interface (VIF) namespace available on the adapter.

VM-FEX Integration for VMware - Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) for VMware provides management integration and network communication between Cisco UCS Manager and VMware vCenter. In previous releases, this functionality was known as VN-Link in Hardware.

VM-FEX Integration for KVM (Red Hat Linux) - Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) for VMware provides external switching for virtual machines running on a KVM Linux-based hypervisor in a Cisco UCS instance.

Related Documentation

For related documentation, refer to this document:

Cisco UCS Documentation Roadmap

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

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This document is to be used in conjunction with the documents listed in the Cisco UCS Documentation Roadmap.