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Preface
This preface includes the following sections:
- Audience
- New and Changed Information for this Release
- Organization
- Conventions
- Related Documentation
- Documentation Feedback
- Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
New and Changed Information for this Release
The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to this guide for this current release. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes made to the configuration guides or of the new features in this release.
Table 1 New Features Feature
Description
Where Documented
Disk Drive Monitoring Support
Support for disk drive monitoring on certain blade servers and a specific LSI storage controller firmware level.
Fabric Port Channels
Enables you to group several of the physical links from a IOM to a fabric interconnect into one logical link for redundancy and bandwidth sharing. (Requires supported hardware.)
Firmware Bundle Option
Enables you to select a bundle instead of a version when updating firmware using the Cisco UCS Manager GUI.
iSCSI Boot
iSCSI boot enables a server to boot its operating system from an iSCSI target machine located remotely over a network.
Licensing
Updated information for new UCS hardware.
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.
Virtual Interface Card Drivers
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) drivers facilitate communication between supported operating systems and Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Cards (VICs).
This feature is now documented in the following installation guides:
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.
This feature is now documented in the following configuration guides:
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 Cisco UCS instance.
This feature is documented in the following configuration guides:
Organization
This document includes the following parts:
Part
Title
Description
Part 1
Introduction
Contains chapters that provide an overview of Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) and Cisco UCS Manager.
Part 2
System Configuration
Contains chapters that describe how to configure fabric interconnects, ports, communication services, primary authentication, and role-based access control configuration, and how to manage firmware and the Capability Catalog on a system.
Part 3
Network Configuration
Contains chapters that describe how to configure named VLANs, LAN pin groups, MAC pools, and Quality of Service (QoS).
Part 4
Storage Configuration
Contains chapters that describe how to configure named VSANs, SAN pin groups, and WWN pools.
Part 5
Server Configuration
Contains chapters that describe how to configure server-related policies, server-related pools, service profiles, and server power usage.
Part 6
System Management
Contains chapters that describe how to manage a Cisco UCS instance, including managing the chassis, servers, and I/O modules, and how to back up and restore the configuration.
Part 7
System Monitoring
Contains chapters that describe how use Cisco UCS Manager to monitor a Cisco UCS instance, including configuring Call Home, monitoring data traffic, monitoring hardware, configuring statistics-related policies, and configuring faults, events, and logs.
For more information about Cisco UCS faults and logs, see the Cisco UCS Manager B-Series Troubleshooting Guide and the Cisco UCS Faults and Error Messages Reference.
Conventions
This document uses the following conventions:
Convention
Indication
bold font
Commands, keywords, GUI elements, and user-entered text appear in bold font.
italic font
Document titles, new or emphasized terms, and arguments for which you supply values are in italic font.
[ ]
Elements in square brackets are optional.
{x | y | z}
Required alternative keywords are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars.
[x | y | z]
Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.
string
A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation marks.
courier font
Terminal sessions and information that the system displays appear in courier font.
< >
Nonprinting characters such as passwords are in angle brackets.
[ ]
Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.
!, #
An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.
Note
Means reader take note.
Tip
Means the following information will help you solve a problem.
Caution
Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might perform an action that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.
Timesaver
Means the described action saves time. You can save time by performing the action described in the paragraph.
Warning
Means reader be warned. In this situation, you might perform an action that could result in bodily injury.
Related Documentation
For a complete list of all B-Series documentation, see the Cisco UCS B-Series Servers Documentation Roadmap available at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/b-series-doc.
Additional documentation describing the configuration limits for Cisco UCS 6100 and 6200 series fabric interconnects running Cisco UCS Manager, version 2.0, is available at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/configuration_limits/2.0/b_UCS_Configuration_Limits_2_0.html
Documentation Feedback
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