Dear Cisco Customer,

Cisco engineering has identified the following software caveats with the release that you have selected that may affect your use of this software. Please review the Software Advisory notice here to determine if the issues apply to your environment. You may proceed to download this software if you have no concerns with the issue described.

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Reason for Advisory

This software advisory addresses the following issue in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 3.1(1g):

·         Release 3.1(1g), Cisco UCS Manager does not support the following third party adapters on Blade Servers for Cisco UCS 6332 and 6332-16UP Fabric Interconnects:

o   N20-AQ0102

o   N20-AE0102

o   UCSB-MEZ-ELX-03

o   UCSB-MEZ-QLG-03

Important Upgrade Guidelines

From release 3.1(1e), Cisco UCS Manager does not support hardware listed in the Deprecated Hardware table. Before upgrading Cisco UCS Manager to release 3.1(1e) you must remove these deprecated hardware from your UCS domain.

Deprecated Hardware

Starting from release 3.1(1e), the following hardware is not supported in Cisco UCS Manager:

Hardware Type

Product

Fabric Interconnects

UCS 6120 (N10-S6100)

UCS 6140 (N10-S6200)

IO Modules

2104 FEX (N20-I6584)

Blade Servers

B200M1 (N20-B6620-1)

B250M1 (N20-B6620-2)

B230M1 (N20-B6730-1)

B440M1 (N20-B6740-2)

Adapters – Blade Servers

E M71KR-E (N20-AE0002)

Q M71KR-Q (N20-AQ0002)

Intel 82598KR (N20-AI0002)

M81KR (N20-AC0002)

Broadcom M51KR-B BCM 57711 Mezz (N20-AB0002)

Rack Mount Servers

C210M2 (R210-2121605W)

C460M2 (UCSC-BASE-M2-C460)

C200M2 (UCSC-BSE-SFF-C200)

C250M2 (R250-2480805W)

C260M2 (C260-BASE-2646)

C420M3

Adapters – Rack Mount Servers

N2XX-ACPCI01

Cisco UCS CNA M61KR-I Intel (N20-AI0102)

Broadcom 57711 Dual Port (N2XX-ABPCI02)

Cisco UCS P81E VIC (N2XX-ACPCI01)

Emulex OneConnect OCe10102-F (N2XX-AEPCI01)

Qlogic QLE 8152-CNA (N2XX-AQPCI01)