Release Notes for Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility, Release 5.0

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Release Notes for Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility, Release 5.0

Contents

Introduction

Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility

Cisco Driver Update Utility

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Supported Platforms

Release 5.0(1)

Hardware Requirements for Cisco UCS SCU

Open Caveats

Release 5.0(3)

Release 5.0(1)

Known Behavior

Release 5.0(1)

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Release Notes for Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility, Release 5.0

First Published Date: January 31, 2017

Revised Date: June 21, 2017

 

This document describes the features, system requirements, and open caveats for UCS SCU Release 5.0 and any related firmware or drivers. Use this document in conjunction with the documents listed in the “Related Documentation” section.

Note We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.

Table 1 shows the online change history for this document.

 

Table 1 Online History Change

Revision
Date
Description

A0

January 31, 2017

Created release notes for Release 5.0(1)

B0

June 21, 2017

Updated the following sections for 5.0(3):

  • Open Caveats
  • Supported Operating Systems

Contents

This document includes the following sections:

Introduction

This release note discusses the features, and open caveats for the following products:

  • Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility
  • Cisco Driver Update Utility

Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility

The Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility (UCS SCU) is an application that helps you easily set up and manage your servers from a single application. UCS SCU reduces the complexity and time associated with setting up and maintaining Cisco C-series servers. Server deployment time is made easier. It guides you through questions to help quickly configure the server through automatic recognition of server hardware, with minimal reboots and an automated unattended operating system installation.

With UCS-SCU, you can perform the following:

  • Upgrade, troubleshoot, and configure UCS C-Series server
  • View server inventory.
  • Configure RAID volumes on attached hard drives
  • Install an operating system using one of the following options:

– Quick install - Install an operating system with default settings

– Custom install - Modify the default settings prior to installing an operating system.

  • View server health and logs.

For more information on performing these tasks, see the latest version of the Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility User Guide.

Cisco Driver Update Utility

The Cisco Driver Update Utility enables you to install or update drivers for all Cisco supported devices.

With Cisco Driver Update Utility, you can perform the following:

  • Install driver updates individually or collectively
  • Install driver updates from the Cisco Flexible Flash card, network or from http://www.cisco.com.

Note The DriverPackageInfo.xml file inside the Windows driver zip file is updated.

For more information on performing these tasks, see the Cisco Driver Update Utility.

System Requirements

This section lists the supported operating systems, supported hardware platforms, and the hardware requirements for Cisco UCS SCU and Cisco Driver Update Utility.

Supported Operating Systems

Support for the following OSes were added for release 5.0(3):

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Update 3
  • Windows Server 2016
  • CentOS 6.8
  • VMware ESXi 6.5

Cisco UCS-SCU 5.0(1) supports unattended installation of the following operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Storage Server 2012
  • Windows Storage Server 2012 R2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 10
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 11
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 4 (x86-64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Update 1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Update 2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SP3)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SP4)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • VMware ESXi 5.1
  • VMware ESXi 5.5
  • VMware ESXi 6.0
  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • Ubuntu 14.04
  • Ubuntu 16.04
  • CentOS 6.6
  • CentOS 6.7

Supported Platforms

Release 5.0(1)

UCS-SCU 5.0(1) and Cisco Driver Update Utility 5.0(1) are supported on the following servers:

  • UCS-C22 M3
  • UCS-C24 M3
  • UCS-C220 M3
  • UCS-C240 M3
  • UCS-C3160 M3
  • UCS-S3260 M3
  • UCS-S3260 M4
  • UCS-C240 M4
  • UCS-C220 M4
  • UCS-C460 M4

Hardware Requirements for Cisco UCS SCU

The following are the minimum hardware requirements for UCS SCU:

  • CD-ROM Drive—A USB CD/DVD-ROM drive is required to be able to boot and run the UCS-SCU. You can also use the virtual media option in the CIMC KVM to boot UCS-SCU.
  • Mouse—Some functions require a standard mouse (USB) for navigation.
  • USB Disk on Key device—functions like saving UCS-SCU logs require a USB disk on key.
  • RAM—A minimum of 4 GB RAM. If the available RAM is less than the minimum recommended value, UCS-SCU will not function properly.
  • Network Adapter—Some optional functions, like downloading the OS drivers from support.cisco.com require network access. Any single on-board NIC adapter connection is supported.

Note Currently UCS-SCU supports only Intel adapters.

  • RAID Cards—RAID configuration and OS installation are supported on select controllers.

Open Caveats

This section lists the open caveats in the Cisco UCS SCU, Release 5.0(1):

Release 5.0(3)

This section lists the open caveats for Cisco UCS SCU, Release 5.0(3):

  • CSCve83841

Symptom Custom installation of the Ubuntu 16.04 OS using the non-interactive SCU fails.

Workaround Use the quick install option.

  • CSCve72195

Symptom Device or resource busy error occurs while trying to install an OS on a drive, which already has an OS, using the SCU or Non-Interactive SCU.

Workaround Reboot the host, create a new VD, initialize the VD and then try installing the OS.

Release 5.0(1)

This section lists the open caveats for Cisco UCS SCU, Release 5.0(1):

  • CSCvc87504

Symptom On the C240 M4 servers, custom installation of non-interactive SCU fails when used on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Update 2.

Workaround Use the non-interactive SCU quick installation procedure.

  • CSCvc87141

Symptom Only inbox drivers are visible after custom-installing the non-interactive SCU on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 7.1 and 7.2.

Workaround Use the driver update utility to update the drivers.

  • CSCvc85406

Symptom While installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 and 5.11 operating systems using the non-interactive SCU, OS installation fails while creating a partition.

Workaround None.

Known Behavior

This section lists the known behavior in the Cisco UCS SCU, Release 5.0(1):

Release 5.0(1)

  • CSCva33132

Symptom While updating the drivers using the driver update utility, on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, some unidentified media volumes are mounted automatically on the OS.

Workaround Manually unmount these media volumes.

Related Documentation

For configuration information for this release, see the following:

The following related documentation is available for the Cisco Unified Computing System:

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

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