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Peripherals

The following are supported on Cisco UCS C-series M6 servers:

• UCSC-O-N6CD100GF (Cisco-NVDA MCX623436AC-CDAB CX6Dx 2x100G QSFP56 x16 OCP NIC)

• UCSC-O-N6CD25GF (Cisco-NVDA MCX631432AC-ADAB CX6 Lx 2x25G SFP28 x8 OCP NIC)

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• 6500 Series Fabric Interconnect—Beginning with Release 4.2(3b), Cisco UCS Manager introduces support for fifth generation of Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect (UCS FI 6536). The Cisco 6536 Fabric Interconnects are a core part of the Cisco Unified Computing System, providing both network connectivity and management capabilities for the system. The Cisco 6536 offer line-rate, low-latency, lossless 10/25/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and Fibre Channel functions.

  The Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect provide the management and communication backbone for UCS B-Series Blade Servers, UCS 5108 B-Series Server Chassis, and UCS C-Series Rack Servers. All servers attached to a Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect become part of a single, highly available management domain. In addition, by supporting a unified fabric, Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect provides both the LAN and SAN connectivity for all servers within its domain.

• You can migrate the following Fabric Interconnects to UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect:

  • UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects

  • UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects

  Cisco recommends that once you migrate to UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect, do not migrate back to UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnect or UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnect.

• Peripherals—

  • Support for Cisco UCS VIC 15411 – 4 x 10G mLOM adapter on Cisco UCS B-series M6 servers

    Note	Cisco UCS VIC 15411 cannot be combined with Cisco UCS VIC 1400 series within the same server.

  • Support of Cisco UCS VIC 15238 (UCSC-M-V5D200G)– 2 x 40G/100G/200G mLOM adapter on Cisco UCS C-series M6 rack servers with Cisco UCS 6300 and 6536 Fabric Interconnects.

  • Support for NVIDIA UCSC-GPU-A100-80G with Cisco UCS C240 and C480 M5 servers.

  • Support for Cisco Nexus 2348UPQ with Cisco UCS 6500 Series Fabric Interconnects.

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Support for Nvidia GPU-A100-80 GPU (UCSC-GPU-A100-80) for Cisco UCS M5 servers.

Peripherals

Support for the following:

• Support for Cisco UCS VIC 1440+PE with Cisco UCS 6300/6400 fabric interconnects and 22xx series IOMs.

• Support of Cisco UCS VIC 15428 MLOM 4-port adapter on Cisco UCS C-series M6 rack servers

  Note	Release 4.2(2a) does not support Cisco UCS 5th Gen FI (UCS-FI-6536).

• QSFP-40/100-SRBD Network Interface Card at 40G on Cisco VIC 1300 and 1400.

• Intel X710T4LG 4x10 GbE RJ45 PCIe NIC (Carlsville ASIC) with Cisco UCS C220 M6, C240 M6, C225 M6, and C245 M6 servers.

• Qlogic QLE 2772 Fibre Channel Adapter with Cisco UCS C125 M5 servers.

• Qlogic QLE 2772 or QLE 2742 Fibre Channel Adapter with Cisco UCS S3260 servers.

• QLogic QLE2772 2x32GFC Gen 6 Enhanced PCIe HBA) with Cisco UCS C225 M6 and C245 M6 servers.

• MLNX MCX623106AS-CDAT, 2x100 GbE QSFP56 PCIe (non-Crypto/TLS) with Cisco UCS C225 M6 and C245 M6 servers.

• UCSC-P-B7D32GF (Cisco-Emulex LPe35002-M2-2x32GFC Gen 7 PCIe HBA)

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Cisco UCS C225 M6 Server

Cisco UCS C225 M6 Server is the most versatile general-purpose infrastructure and application server in the industry. This high-density, 1RU, 2-socket rack server delivers industry-leading performance and efficiency for a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, EDA, SDS, big data, and edge-centric workloads. You can deploy the Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers as standalone servers or as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System™ with Cisco UCS Manager and the Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service cloud-based management platform.

Cisco UCS C225 M6 Server has 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs for the most cores per socket. Combined with PCIe 4.0 for peripherals and 3200 MHz DDR4 memory, you have significant performance and efficiency gains that will improve your application performance.

Cisco UCS Manager supports C225 M6 servers with Rome and Milan Processors

The C225 M6 servers are supported only with Cisco UCS 6454, 64108, and 6300 Fabric Interconnects.

The server supports the following features:

• A maximum of two 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs.

• 16 DIMM slots per CPU for 3200-MHz DDR4 DIMMs with individual DIMM capacity points up to 256 GB. The maximum memory capacity for 2 CPUs is 8 TB (for 32 x 256 GB DDR4 DIMMs.

• Up to 10 x 2.5-inch 12-Gbps Front load HDDs or SSDs or up to 10 x 2.5-inch (U.2) PCIe Gen 4x2 NVMe SSDs

• The server provides internal slots for one Cisco 12G SAS RAID controllers with 4 GB cache backup to control SAS/SATA drives, or Up to two Cisco 12G SAS HBAs to control SAS/SATA drives.

• Two power supplies with support for N and N+1 power redundancy modes.

• Network connectivity through either a Serial port (RJ-45 connector) COM 1, BMC or Host Serial access or RJ45 BMC Dedicated Management Port.

• Support for the following new UCS VIC 1400 Series adapters:

  • VIC 1467 10/25G MLOM for C-Series (Cisco UCS VIC 1467 MLOM)

  • VIC 1477 40/100G MLOM for C-Series (Cisco UCS VIC 1477 MLOM)

Cisco UCS C245 M6 Server

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS C245 M6 servers with Rome Processors.

Intel MR6

Support for Intel MR6 for M6 server platforms.

Cisco UCS C245 M6 Server

Cisco UCS C245 M6 Server is well-suited for a wide range of storage and I/O-intensive applications such as big data analytics, databases, collaboration, virtualization, and server consolidation. Cisco UCS C245 M6 Server has 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs for the most cores per socket. Combined with PCIe 4.0 for peripherals and 3200 MHz DDR4 memory, you have significant performance and efficiency gains that will improve your application performance.

Cisco UCS Manager supports only Cisco UCS C245 M6 servers with Milan Processors only.

Cisco UCS C245 M6 servers are supported only with Cisco UCS 6454, 64108, and 6300 Fabric Interconnects.

The server supports the following features:

• A maximum of two 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs.

• 16 DIMM slots per CPU for 3200-MHz DDR4 DIMMs with individual DIMM capacity points up to 256 GB. The maximum memory capacity for 2 CPUs is 8 TB (for 32 x 256 GB DDR4 DIMMs.

• Up to 24 front SFF SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs (optionally up to 4 of the drives can be NVMe).

• Up to 8 PCie slots using three rear risers, or Storage-centric option provides three rear risers with a total of up to 4 NVMe SFF drives and 3 PCIe slots.

• The server provides internal slots for one Cisco 12G SAS RAID controllers with 4 GB cache backup to control SAS/SATA drives, or Up to two Cisco 12G SAS HBAs to control SAS/SATA drives.

• Two power supplies with support for N and N+1 power redundancy modes.

• Network connectivity through either a Serial port (RJ-45 connector) COM 1, BMC or Host Serial access or RJ45 BMC Dedicated Management Port.

• Support for the following new UCS VIC 1400 Series adapters:

  • VIC 1467 10/25G MLOM for C-Series (Cisco UCS VIC 1467 MLOM)

  • VIC 1477 40/100G MLOM for C-Series (Cisco UCS VIC 1477 MLOM)

Peripherals

• Support for NVIDIA A10 GPU (PCIe FHFL SS 24GB 150W) in Cisco UCS C240 and C245 M6 servers along with NVIDIA A100 GPU.

• Support for NVIDIA T4 PCIe 16GB 70W (T4 GPU) in Cisco UCS C220 and C225 M6 servers.

Cisco UCS B200 M6 Server

Cisco UCS B200 M6 Server is a half-width blade server that is designed for the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis. You can install up to eight UCS B200 M6 blade servers in a UCS 5108 chassis, mixing with other models of Cisco UCS blade servers in the chassis if desired.

The server supports the following features:

• Two CPU sockets for Third Generation Intel Xeon Scalable family of CPUs support one or two CPU blade configurations.

• Up to 32 DDR4 DIMMs (16 sockets/8 channels per CPU). 32 DIMM slots for industry-standard DDR4 memory at speeds up to 3200 MHz, with up to 8 TB of total memory when using 256 GB DIMMs. Up to 16 DIMM slots ready for Intel Optane DC PMem to accommodate up to 12 TB of Intel Optane DC persistent memory.

• One front mezzanine storage module with the following options:

  • Cisco FlexStorage module supporting two 7 mm SATA SSDs. A 12G SAS controller chip is included on the module to provide hardware RAID for the two drives.

  • Cisco FlexStorage module supporting two mini-storage modules, module "1" and module "2." Each mini-storage module is a SATA M.2 dual-SSD mini-storage module that includes an on-board SATA RAID controller chip. Each RAID controller chip manages two SATA M.2 dual SSD modules.

  • Rear mLOM, which is required for blade discovery. This mLOM VIC card (for example, a Cisco VIC 1440) can provide per fabric connectivity of 20 G or 40 G when used with the pass-through Cisco UCS Port Expander Card in the rear mezzanine slot. Cisco UCS B200 M6 server supports NVMe Drive with pass-through adapter module supporting two 7 mm NVME SSDs.

  • Optionally, the rear mezzanine slot can have a Cisco VIC Card (for example, a Cisco VIC 1480) or the pass-through Cisco UCS Port Expander Card.

Note	Component support is subject to chassis power configuration restrictions. Cisco UCS B200 M6 Servers are not supported with Cisco UCS 6200 series Fabric Interconnect.

Cisco UCS C220 M6 Server

Cisco UCS C220 M6 Server is a one-rack unit server that can be used standalone, or as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System, which unifies computing, networking, management, virtualization, and storage access into a single integrated architecture.

The server supports the following features:

• A maximum of two 3rd Generation Intel Xeon processors.

• 32 DD4 DIMMs (16 per CPU) for a total system memory of either 8 TB (32 x 256 GB DDR4 DIMMs) or 12 TB (16 x 256 GB DDR4 DIMMs1 and 16 x 512 GB Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Module (PMEMs)).

• 3 PCI Express riser connectors, which provide slots for “full height” and “half height” PCI-e adapters.

• Two Titanium (80 PLUS rated) power supplies with support for N and N+1 power redundancy modes.

• 2 x 10GBase-T Ethernet LAN over Motherboard (LOM) ports for network connectivity, plus one 1 Gb Ethernet dedicated management port.

• One mLOM card provides 2 x 100 Gig Ethernet ports. Cisco UCS 220 M6 server supports 2 x 100 G [Cisco UCS VIC 1477] and 4 x 25 G [Cisco UCS VIC 1467] MLOM adapters.

• One KVM port on the front of the server.

• Two different front-loading hardware configurations are available:

  • UCSC-C220-M6S

  • UCSC-C220-M6N

• Rear PCI risers are supported as one to three half-height PCIe risers, or one to two full-height PCIe risers.

• The server provides an internal slot for one of the following:

  • SATA Interposer to control SATA drives from the PCH (AHCI), or

  • Cisco 12 G RAID controller with cache backup to control SAS/SATA drives, or

  • Cisco 12 G SAS pass-through HBA to control SAS/SATA drives.

Note	Cisco UCS C220 M6 Servers are not supported with Cisco UCS 6200 series Fabric Interconnect.

Cisco UCS C240 M6 Server

Cisco UCS C240 M6 Server is a 2 rack-unit, rack server chassis that can operate in both standalone environments and as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS). Cisco UCS C240 M6 Servers support a maximum of two 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, in either one or two CPU configurations.

The server supports the following features:

• 16 DIMM slots per CPU for 3200-MHz DDR4 DIMMs in capacities up to 256 GB DIMMs.

• A maximum of 8 TB of memory is supported for a dual CPU configuration populated with either:

  • DIMM memory configurations of either 32 256 GB DDR DIMMs, or

  • 16 x 256 GB DDR4 DIMMs plus 16 x 256 GB Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Modules (PMEMs).

• The servers have different supported drive configurations depending on whether they are configured with large form factor (LFF) or small form factor (SFF) front-loading drives.

• Internal slot for a 12 G SAS RAID controller with SuperCap for write cache backup, or for a SAS HBA.

• Network connectivity through either a dedicated modular LAN over motherboard card (mLOM) that accepts a series 14xx Cisco virtual interface card (VIC) or a third-party NIC. These options are in addition to Intel x550 10Gbase-T mLOM ports built into the server motherboard.

• Two power supplies (PSUs) that support N+1 power configuration.

• Six modular, hot swappable fans.

• Five different front-loading hardware configurations are available:

  • UCSC-C240-M6S

  • UCSC-C240-M6L

  • UCSC-C240-M6SX

  • UCSC-C240-M6N

  • UCSC-C240-M6SN

Note	Cisco UCS C240 M6 Servers are not supported with Cisco UCS 6200 series Fabric Interconnect.

Peripherals

• Support for Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) Profiles Version 2.0 on UCS clients.

• Support for Cisco UCS M4 and M5 servers with Cisco UCS 6248, 6296, 6300, 6454, and 64108 Fabric Interconnect series.

• Support for NVIDIA A-100 GPU cards (UCSC-GPU-A100) on UCS C240 M6 servers.

• Support for Nexus 93180YC-FX3 at 25G connection with UCS VIC 1455, 1457, and 1467

• Support for UCS-M2-HWRAID on Cisco UCS C220 M6 Server and Cisco UCS C240 M6 Server

• Support for UCSB-RAID12G-M6 on Cisco UCS B200 M6 Server

• UCS VIC 1400 Series Adapters

  Support for the following new UCS VIC 1400 Series adapters on Cisco UCS C220 M6 Server and Cisco UCS C240 M6 Server:

  • VIC 1467 10/25G MLOM for C-Series (Cisco UCS VIC 1467 MLOM)

  • VIC 1477 40/100G MLOM for C-Series (Cisco UCS VIC 1477 MLOM)

• Support for Cisco UCS-MP-128GS-B0, UCS-MP-256GS-B0, and UCS-MP-512GS-B0 DIMMs.

• Support for the following plan of record (POR) and capacity for all namespaces in App Direct Mode and App Direct Non Interleaved memory type:

  Table 8. Minimum and Maximum capacity values in App Direct memory type:

  	Minimum Capacity			Maximum Capacity
  POR	4+4	8+4	8+8	4+4	8+1	8+4	8+8
  128GB	4	4	8	504	126	504	1008
  256GB	4	4	8	1012	253	1012	2024
  512GB	4	4	8	2028	507	2028	4056

  Table 9. Minimum and Maximum capacity values for App Direct Non Interleaved memory type :

  	Minimum Capacity				Maximum Capacity
  POR	4+4	8+1	8+4	8+8	4+4	8+1	8+4	8+8
  128GB	1	1	1	1	126	126	126	126
  256GB	1	1	1	1	253	253	253	253
  512GB	1	1	1	1	507	507	507	507

  Table 10. Namespace capacity and Intel MPN

  Capacity	Intel MPN
  128 GB	NMB1XXD128GPSU4
  128GB	NMB1XXD128GPSUF
  256GB	NMB1XXD256GPSU4
  256GB	NMB1XXD256GPSUF
  512GB	NMB1XXD512GPSU4
  512GB	NMB1XXD512GPSUF

Feature Enhancements

• Added support for Intel^® Optane^™ Data Center persistent memory 100 series.

Third-party Adapters Support

From Cisco UCS Manager Release 4.2.1, the following third-party adapters are supported:

• Intel E810CQDA2 2 x 100 GbE QSFP28 PCIe Network Interface Card on C220 M6 and C240 M6 servers (UCSC-P-I8D100GF)

• Intel E810XXVDA2 2 x 25/10 GbE SFP28 PCIe Network Interface Card on C220 M6 and C240 M6 servers (UCSC-P-I8D25GF)

• Intel E810XXVDA4L 4 x 25/10 GbE SFP28 PCIe Network Interface Card on C220 M6 and C240 M6 servers (UCSC-P-I8Q25GF)

• Intel E810CQDA1 1 x 100 GbE QSFP28 PCIe Network Interface Card on C220 M6 and C240 M6 servers (UCSC-P-I8S100GF)

• Mellanox ConnectX-6 MCX623106AC-CDAT 2 x 100 GbE QSFP56 PCIe Network Interface Card on C220 M6 and C240 M6 servers (UCSC-P-M6CD100GF)

• Mellanox ConnectX-6 MCX623106AS-CDAT 2 x 100 GbE QSFP56 PCIe Network Interface Card on C220 M6 and C240 M6 servers (UCSC-P-M6DD100GF)

• Intel XL710 T2 LG Dual port

• Emulex LPe35002 Gen 7 PCIe 4.0 Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)

• Dell QLogic 2772 Dual Port 32GbE Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA)

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Feature Enhancements

• Beginning with release 4.2(3d), Cisco UCS Manager introduces Password Encryption Key to enhance security for backup configuration files. Password Encryption Key, by default, is not set once you upgrade to release 4.2(3d). For more information how to set the Password Encryption Key, see Cisco UCS Manager Administration Management Guide 4.2 under Cisco UCS Manager Configuration Guides.

• Maximum data LUNs Per Target is increased from [1-1024] to [1-4096] for Linux and ESX OS for Cisco UCS 13xx, 14xx, 15xxx VIC series adapters.

  Note	This update is applicable to vHBA type FC Initiator only. Before downgrading from Cisco UCS Manager release 4.2(3d), change the LUNs Per Target configuration to [1-1024]. ESX 7.x and ESX 8.0 supports a total of 1024 LUNs per host.

• MAC limit is increased from 32K to 96K for Cisco UCS 6400 Series, Cisco UCS 64108, and Cisco UCS 6536 FIs.

Feature Enhancements

• Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect supports splitting a single 40 Gigabit(G)/100G Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) port into four 10G/25G ports using a supported breakout cable. The switch has 32 40/100-Gbps Ethernet ports and 4 unified ports that can support 40/100-Gbps Ethernet ports or 16 Fiber Channel (FC) ports after breakout at 8/16/32-Gbps FC speeds. Port breakout is supported for Ethernet ports (1-32) and Unified ports (33-36).

• Added the support to configure the Ethernet breakout ports on Cisco UCS 6536 and Cisco UCS 6400 Series Fabric Interconnects (UCS FI 6454 and UCS FI 64108) without leading the Fabric Interconnect to reboot.

  Note	Cisco UCS Manager releases prior to 4.2(3b) continue to lead the Fabric Interconnect reboot after Ethernet breakout port configuration, on Cisco UCS 6400 Series Fabric Interconnects.

• In Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect, all ports are enabled using a term-based subscription license.

  License Management tab in the Cisco UCS Manager GUI is deprecated for Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect. Scope license command is also deprecated.

• Beginning with release 4.2(3b), UCS Manager supports secured authentication for the transport email with the SMTP server. You can toggle SMTP Authentication between Off and On.

• Support for NVMe over ROCEv2 with ESXi for Cisco UCS VIC 15000 series adapters.

• Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect supports Fibre Channel (FC) breakout port configuration. The FC breakout is supported on ports 36 through 33 when each port is configured with a four-port breakout cable. For example: Four FC breakout ports on the physical port 33 are numbered as 1/33/1, 1/33/2, 1/33/3, and 1/33/4.

• Cisco UCS Manager Release 4.2(3b) supports double-tagged packet forwarding, 802.1Q-in-802.1Q (Q-in-Q), with Cisco UCS 6400 and 6500 Series Fabric Interconnects.

• Beginning with Cisco UCS Manager Release 4.2(3b), UCS Manager supports the firmware management for the following NVIDIA A Series GPUs with and without Crypto-Embedded Controller (CEC):

  • NVIDIA A10

  • NVIDIA A16

  • NVIDIA A30

  • NVIDIA A40

  • NVIDIA A100-80GB

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Feature Enhancements

• Support for Cisco UCS VIC 1440+PE with Cisco UCS 6300/6400 fabric interconnects and 22xx series IOMs.

• Support of Cisco VIC 15428 MLOM 4-port adapters on Cisco UCS C-series M6 rack servers.

• Beginning Cisco UCS Manager release 4.2(2a), the Cisco SSL version is upgraded to 1.1.1l-fips on Cisco UCS Mini, UCS 6200 series, UCS 6300 series, and UCS 6400 Series Fabric Interconnects.

  Note	The updated Cisco SSL version may require updated SSH Clients, which support updated key exchanges.

• Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) now supports a maximum of three Domain Name System (DNS).

• Release 4.2(2a) extends support to the enhanced vKVM console on Cisco UCS B200 M5 and B480 M5 servers.

• Added Reset BIOS Password option to Server Management actions. This option enables you to reset the BIOS password without using the F2 BIOS configuration prompt.

• Added support for enabling PNuOS with UEFI secure boot when configured in UEFI Boot Mode under Boot Policy.

• Port number 443 is now blocked for Cisco IMC OOB KVM IP addresses when Cisco IMC Web Service Admin State is in Disabled mode

• Added the ability to clear the Server Personality set by the installer and revert the server to no personality state in Cisco UCS C220 M6, C240 M6, C245 M6, C225 M6, and B200 M6 servers.

• Support of Precision Time Protocol (PTP) with VIC 15428 adapter on all current distributions of the Linux operating system.

• Support for 16K ring size on VIC 15428 adapter with eNIC driver on Linux operating systems, and eNIC driver on Windows and ESX operating systems

• Cisco UCS Manager now supports HDD/SSD and SAS/SATA drive types diagnostic self-test. If the drive fails self test, a major fault is raised. Cisco recommends that you backup the data and replace the drive. For more details, see Cisco UCS Manager Storage Management Guide, Release 4.2 or Cisco UCS Manager Server Management Using the CLI, Release 4.2.

  Note	This feature does not support NVME JBOD drives. You may use third-party tools to diagnose NVME JBOD disk errors.

• Support for Cisco UCS Mini fabric interconnects with Cisco UCS VIC 14xx series on Cisco UCS M5 rack-mount servers.

• fNIC support for FDMI on ESX 6.7 and 7.0.

• FDMI support for Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.6 and 9.0.

• FDMI is now supported for VIC 15428 adapters on all current Linux releases.

• Added the capability of auto negotiation on Ethernet server, Fabric Interconnects, or Interfaces to determine the optimal speed of the connected device. While configuring server ports, you can enable or disable auto-negotiate option.

  Note	Auto-negotiate must be disabled for 100Gps server port connected to N9K-C93180YC-FX3 in FEX mode.

• Added the capability to enable/disable RFC 5424 compliance. While configuring the syslog using Cisco UCS Manager, you can click Enable to display the syslog messages as per RFC 5424 format.

  Note	This option is applicable only for Cisco UCS 6400 Series Fabric Interconnects.

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Feature Enhancements

• Server Personality is now supported on Cisco UCS C225 M6 Server. If configured, Server Personality can be reverted to the unconfigured state via CLI command.

Feature Enhancements

• Added an option to revert a previously configured Server Personality on Cisco UCS C245 M6 Server, Cisco UCS C240 M6 Server, and Cisco UCS C220 M6 Server to a no personality state.

Feature Enhancements

• New property added to create and modify the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Source IP Proxy State in Multicast Policy.

• Added an option to disable the Lewisburg SATA AHCI controller on Cisco UCS M5 servers.

• Support to display the DIMM manufacturing date/country information in dmidecode’s (SMBIOS) Asset Tag field.

• Support mechanism for 6400 series Fabric Interconnets to send the Registered State Change Notification (RSCN) when the Cisco UCS IOM port-channel membership changes.

• BIOS support on M6 servers for new functions for processor, RAS memory, and trusted platform support.

Feature Enhancements

• The Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) Specification, which challenges a device to prove its identity according to a specified level of device authentication, is supported on Cisco UCS M6 Servers. Additionally, SPDM allows uploads of up to 40 external security certificates to the BMC.

• Cisco UCS C220M6/C240M6 C-series M6 servers that support Aero PCIe SAS316-port storage controllers for Direct Attached Storage allow creation of an automatic configuration storage profile. Using an an autoconfiguration profile allows you to choose whether to have a newly inserted disk automatically moved to the Unconfigured-good state.

• Cisco UCS Manager now supports the watchdog timer function on Cisco UCS 6400 Series Fabric Interconnects with switch ports that are PFC mode enabled.

• Cisco UCS Manager now supports NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe) on UCS 6300 series Fabric Interconnects, UCS 6454, and UCS 64108 Fabric Interconnects with Cisco UCS VIC 14xx series adapters on ESX 7.0, ESX 7.0 U1 and ESX 7.0u2.

  This support is also available on Cisco Standalone rack servers with Cisco UCS 14xx series adapters.

• Cisco UCS Manager now supports NVME over RDMA on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9.

• Cisco UCS Manager now supports NVMe over Fibre Channel for ESX and Linux with Fibre Channel Direct Connect.

• Cisco UCS Manager now supports an Aggressive Cooling option as part of the Power Control policy for Cisco UCS M6 Servers.

• Cisco UCS M6 servers now display a Server Personality field in their General Properties if a server personality was configured for Cisco HyperFlex servers.

• The port VLAN count scale has been increased from 64,000 to 108,000 for Cisco UCS 6400 series Fabric Interconnect.

• The IP multicast group limit with Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnect and Cisco UCS IOM 2408, has been increased from 4000 entries to 16,000 entries.

Cisco UCS 6536 FI

Cisco UCS 6400 and 64108 FIs

Cisco UCS 6300 FI

Cisco UCS 6324 FI

Cisco UCS 6200 FI

Other Hardware

We recommend that you use the latest software version for all Chassis, Fabric Interconnects, Fabric Extenders, Expansion Modules and Power Supplies. To determine the minimum software version for your mixed environment, see Cross-Version Firmware Support. The following is the list of other supported hardware:

GB Connector Modules, Transceiver Modules, and Cables

Following is the list of Gb connector modules, transceiver modules, and supported cables:

Note

Transceiver modules and cables that are supported on a specific Fabric Interconnect are not always supported on all VIC adapters, IOMs, or FEXes that are compatible with that Fabric Interconnect. Detailed compatibility matrices for the transceiver modules are available here:https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/interfaces-modules/transceiver-modules/products-device-support-tables-list.html S-Class transceivers, for example, QSFP-40G-SR4-S, do not support FCoE.