New and Changed Information for this Release

New and Changed Information in Release 3.6

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 this guide or of all new features in this release.

Table 1. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data, Release 3.6

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Updates to Overview chapter

Added the Splunk Distribution and Hadoop Distribution support details.

Overview

Updates to Managing Splunk Clusters chapter

Added the following:

  • Provides an option to specify the custom port number while adding a Splunk derived account.

  • Provides an option to create a multi-site Splunk cluster or migrate an existing Splunk cluster to a multi-site Splunk cluster.

Managing Splunk Clusters

Updates to Managing Hadoop Clusters chapter

Provides an option to specify the custom port number while adding a Hadoop derived account.

Managing Hadoop Clusters

Introduction of the Device Connector tab.

This release of Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data introduces a new tab called Device Connector in the Administration menu.

Using this tab, you can enable or disable the device connector that establishes a bi-directional communication between Cisco Intersight and Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data.

Device Connector

Upgrading Connector Packs

This release introduces support for upgrading connector packs from the graphical user interface of Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data.

Upgrading Connector Packs

New and Changed Information in Release 3.6.1.0

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 this guide or of all new features in this release.

Table 2. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data, Release 3.6.1.0

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Updates to Overview chapter

Added the following:

  • Support for Cloudera 5.15

  • Support for Update BMA Appliance Task system task

Overview

Updates to Managing Splunk Clusters chapter

Provides an option to support NVMe disks.

Managing Splunk Clusters