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The Cisco UCS Hardware Compatibility Report allows you to check interoperability information for Cisco UCS components and configurations that have been tested and verified by Cisco, by Cisco partners, or both. You can run reports and check the status against your current software version or a target software version.
The hardware compatibility report checks the compatibility of the operating systems on the servers, and then checks the adapter drivers associated with that operating system.
Note | If you run the hardware compatibility report using the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator, the servers can be checked, but not the adapter drivers. Therefore the overall status will always read Can Not Determine or Not Validated. |
Running hardware compatibility reports requires the following:
All servers that you want to run the hardware compatibility report against must be associated with a service profile.
You must have a Cisco.com account with Hardware Compatibility Catalog selected to download or import updated versions of the hardware compatibility list.
If you do not already have an account, see the Cisco UCS Central Administration Guide.
Note | Cisco UCS Central ships with a version of the hardware compatibility list, but we recommend that you update to the latest version before running the report. |
The hardware compatibility page displays the existing hardware compatibility reports and catalog downloads. You can have up to 10 reports active at any one time.
From this page, you can:
View reports or delete reports that are no longer in use on the Reports tab.
View downloads or imports of hardware compatibility lists on the Downloads tab.
Create hardware compatibility reports.
Schedule periodic synchronization of hardware compatibility lists.
Synchronize the hardware compatibility list.
Import a hardware compatibility list.
You can run the hardware compatibility report in a host firmware package policy that meets the following criteria:
Step 1 | Click the Browse Tables icon and choose Policies. |
Step 2 | Choose a host firmware package policy. |
Step 3 | On the host firmware package policy page, click the Edit icon. |
Step 4 | Click Hardware Compatibility. |
Step 5 | In the hardware compatibility report, check the status of the
operating systems and adapter drivers.
For more information, see Viewing Hardware Compatibility Report Results. |
Step 6 | Click Save to save any changes that you have made to the hardware firmware package policy, or click Edit to return to edit mode. |
You can run the hardware compatibility report in a global service profile or service profile template that is associated with a server.
Step 1 | Click the Browse Tables icon and choose Templates or Profiles. |
Step 2 | Choose a global service profile or service profile template. |
Step 3 | On the service profile or service profile template page, click the Edit icon. |
Step 4 | Click the Policies tab. |
Step 5 | Click the Host Firmware Package policy. |
Step 6 | Click the Host Firmware Package drop-down arrow and choose a policy. |
Step 7 | Click Hardware Compatibility. |
Step 8 | In the hardware compatibility report, check the status of the
operating systems and adapter drivers.
For more information, see Viewing Hardware Compatibility Report Results. |
Step 9 |
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Step 1 | Click the System Tools icon and choose Hardware Compatibility. | ||
Step 2 | On the Hardware Compatibility page, in Reports, click the View Results icon for the report that you want to view. | ||
Step 3 | On the Report
page, check the overall status.
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Step 4 | If an operating
system is not tagged, click
Add
Tag and complete the following:
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Step 5 | If an adapter
driver is not tagged, click
Add
Tag and complete the following:
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Step 6 | If the operating system or adapter drivers have not been validated, check the UCS HCL tool. | ||
Step 7 | Click the Refresh Report icon to rerun the report. The Report page displays. |
Field |
Description |
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Report Summary |
Lists the number of servers verified by the report.
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Overall Report Status |
The overall status of the report. |
Report Server Firmware Version |
The firmware version of the server on which the report was run. |
Hardware Compatibility List Version |
The hardware compatibility list version on which the report was run. |
Report Run On |
The servers on which the report was run. |
Report Date |
The date and time on which the report was run. |
Server |
The server name, slot number, domain group, and model number. |
Firmware |
The current version of the firmware, and the version on which the report was run. |
Configuration |
The service profile applied to the server. |
Operating System |
If tagged, the operating system for the selected server. |
Add Tag |
Click to tag the operating system. |
View compatible operating systems |
If the operating system is not supported, displays the list of all validated operating systems. |
Adapter |
The model of the adapter. |
Add Tag |
Click to tag the adapter driver information. |
Show Notes |
Any additional information related to the OS or adapter driver. |
View compatible drivers |
If the adapter driver is not supported, displays the list of all validated drivers. |
View supported adapter firmware |
If the adapter firmware is not supported, displays the list of validated firmware. |
Hardware compatibility lists are stored in the hardware compatibility lists page under the Downloads tab. Cisco UCS Central ships with a version of the hardware compatibility list, but we recommend that you update to the latest version before running the report.
You can obtain updated hardware compatibility lists in one of the following ways:
Type |
Description |
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Automatic synchronization from Cisco.com |
After you set up a Cisco.com account, you can: |
Manual download and import |
If you don't want to use automatic synchronization to download the hardware compatibility lists inside of Cisco UCS Central, you can manually download the lists to an external machine and then import them. |
All choices are available from the Tools icon on the hardware compatibility page.
Schedule periodic hardware compatibility list syncs to automatically fetch updated hardware compatibility lists according to the frequency that you set.
You must have a Cisco.com account with Hardware Compatibility Catalog selected.
If you do not already have an account, see the Cisco UCS Central Administration Guide.
Step 1 | Click the System Tools icon and choose Hardware Compatibility. |
Step 2 | On the Hardware Compatibility page, click the Tools icon and choose Schedule Periodic Hardware Compatibility List Syncs. |
Step 3 | Choose the
frequency with which you want to synchronize the hardware compatibility list.
This can be one of the following:
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Step 4 | Click Schedule. |
Use on demand hardware compatibility list syncs to fetch updated hardware compatibility lists when you need them.
You must have a Cisco.com account with Hardware Compatibility Catalog selected.
If you do not already have an account, see the Cisco UCS Central Administration Guide.
Download the hardware compatibility list from Cisco.com. The file is stored in the following location: https://ucshclserver.cloudapps.cisco.com/fetch/current.tar.gz.
Step 1 | Click the System Tools icon and choose Hardware Compatibility. |
Step 2 | On the Hardware Compatibility page, click the Tools icon and choose Import Hardware Compatibility List. |
Step 3 | Choose Local to import a local compatibility list and browse to the file location. |
Step 4 | Choose Remote if you want to import a remote file. |
Step 5 | Click Import. |