Option to
disable cost-related information for a VDC.
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While
adding or modifying a VDC, you can now disable the display of the cost-related
information from the following pages in the user interface:
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Adding a Virtual Data Center
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Storage
Policy changes to accommodate ReadyClones
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Storage
Policy updated to include ReadyClone operation when the VM or template resides
on the HX Datastore.
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Adding and Configuring a Storage Policy
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Introduction of the
Allow Deployability Assessment permission for all
user roles
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By
default, this permission is enabled for all user roles. As an administrator,
you can disable or enable this option for users configured in the system.
If you
disable this option for a user, then that user cannot run the deployability
assessment on a catalog.
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User Roles and Permissions
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Support
for launching classic view on subsequent logins
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As an
administrator, you can set the system to launch the classic view of the user
interface for your subsequent login sessions. You can also set the system to
launch the classic view for other users in the system.
The capability to set the system to launch the classic view for your subsequent logins and for other users is available only in release 6.5. The classic view will be removed in a subsequent release.
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Editing Your Administrative Profile
Adding Users
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Changes to
the Stack View report for a VM
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With this
release, the Stack View Report for a VM has the following changes:
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If there are multiple components in the report, you can use the drop-down list to select a specific component.
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You can choose to view additional details of a component in the report.
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Using the Stack View Option
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Add
Catalog and Clone VM changes to accommodate ReadyClones
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Add
Catalog and Clone VM pages updated to include ReadyClone operation.
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Publishing a Catalog
Cloning a VM
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Enhancements to VNC console management
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The VNC
console is now launched using the Launch VNC Console action, independent of the
Launch VM Client action.
You can
enable a task to automatically unconfigure the VNC console.
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Accessing VM Console Using VNC Client
Automatically Unconfiguring the VNC Console on a VM
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Ability
to disable VM name and host name uniqueness check
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You can
disable the VM name and host name check to disable name validation in order to
use the same VM and host name in a multi-tenant and multi-domain environment.
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Configuring a System Policy
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Support
for creating a bare metal server provisioning policy for Cisco UCS Central
accounts.
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From
this release onwards, you can create a bare metal server provisioning policy
for Cisco UCS Central accounts, and create a service request for this policy.
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Configuring a Bare Metal Server Provisioning Policy
Creating a Service Request with Catalog Type—Bare Metal
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Changes
in configuring a bare metal server provisioning policy
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Following are the changes made in this release:
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Scope of the policy can be set to include either servers or
server pools
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While using the policy to configure servers, you can allow for
the user to select specific servers.
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You
can now select one or more Windows OS images for the server.
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You
can select a static IP pool policy to assign an IP address for the server.
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You
can select a host name validation policy to validate the server host name for
the bare metal server.
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Configuring a Bare Metal Server Provisioning Policy
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Support
for validating a bare metal server provisioning policy
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After
you create a bare metal server provisioning policy, you can validate it from
the user interface, and determine if there are any issues with the policy.
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Validating a Bare Metal Server Provisioning Policy
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Changes
to creating a service request for bare metal servers
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Following are the changes introduced in the procedure for creating a service
request for bare metal servers:
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Capability to choose servers on which the bare metal server
catalog must be run.
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Information on the estimated cost is displayed.
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Information on deployment assessment is now available.
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Creating a Service Request with Catalog Type—Bare Metal
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Support
for creating a credential policy for a generic account and legacy accounts
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You can
create a credential policy for a generic account, and use this policy in the
new
Fetch Generic Credential Policy workflow task.
You can
create a credential policy for supported legacy account types.
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Configuring a Credential Policy
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Ability
to unmount an ISO image from a CD or DVD drive.
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You can
unmount an ISO image already attached to CD/DVD drive on the virtual machine.
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Unmounting an ISO Image as a CD/DVD Drive
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Support
for replacing an existing license.
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You can
replace an existing license using the graphical user interface. In addition,
you can view the list of deactivated licenses in the system.
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Replacing a License
Viewing Deactivated License Information
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Support
for email notifications for bare metal server provisioning
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You can
configure the email addresses of users to receive email notifications on the
status of the bare metal server provisioning using the catalog.
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Creating a Bare Metal Server Catalog
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Support
for dynamically updating policy change for accounts
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For
accounts created with a credential policy, changes made to the policy are
dynamically updated on the accounts.
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Configuring a Credential Policy
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Support
for viewing recent login history for users
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Using
the
All Users Login History option, you can review
login-related information for all users in the system.
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Reviewing Recent Login History of Users
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Introduction of session management capability for users.
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As an
administrator, you can configure the maximum number of concurrent sessions for
users in the system.
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Configuring Session Limits for Users
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Enhanced
capabilities with the Dashboard
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After
you have enabled the
Dashboard option, you can add additional dashboards,
and delete them.
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Creating Additional Dashboards
Deleting a Dashboard
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Introduction of the Converged view
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Using
the
Converged view on the navigation menu, you can view
a graphical representation of the sites, pods within those sites, and accounts
within each pod in a site.
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Using the Converged View
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Introduction of table view for catalogs
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By
default, catalogs are displayed in a tile view. You now have an option to
switch to a table view.
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About Managing Catalogs
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Ability
to configure cores per socket during VM provisioning
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You can
define the permitted values of cores per socket in the computing policy.
The
number of cores per socket can be configured when creating a service request,
deploying a VM, cloning a VM, or provisioning a VM using an orchestration
workflow.
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Creating a Computing Policy
Creating a Service Request with Catalog Type—Standard
Cloning a VM
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Support
for specifying roles that will be available to users.
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While
adding a user role, you can enable or disable the availability of roles.
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Adding a User Role
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Introduction of Object Search
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Using
the
Object Search feature, you can search for specific
tabular reports in the
Physical and
Virtual menus or from the
Workflows and
Custom Tasks screens.
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Running an Object Search
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Capability to add a timer to a system broadcast message
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As an
administrator, you can send a broadcast message to all users who are logged
into the user interface with or without a timer.
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Sending a Broadcast Message
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