New and Changed Information for this Release

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New and Changed Information for this Release

The following tables 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 and Changed Information in Cisco UCS Director, Release 6.9(3.0)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Viewing compatibility matrix information

Allows you to view details about software and hardware components compatible with the Cisco UCS Director.

Compatibility Matrix Information

Viewing critical alerts

Allows you to view critical alerts based on advance predictions of potential failure scenarios.

Viewing Diagnostic System Messages

Defining expiry period for approval tasks

Allows you to define the number of days an approval task must remain active.

Configuring System Parameters
Resetting system task Allows you to quickly reset and reschedule a system task that has been stuck in the in-progress state for a long time, causing inventory failure. Resetting a System Task

Discontinuation of support for NFR and permanent physical server licenses

The support for permanent and subscription-based NFR licenses, and permanent physical server licenses is discontinued. However, the physical server licenses with valid expiry dates will remain supported until their expiry.

Limitations on Using NFR and Permanent Physical Server Licenses
Table 2. New and Changed Information in Cisco UCS Director, Release 6.9(2.0)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Change of default account to access Cisco UCS Director

The root user access is disabled, and ucsdadmin access is enabled by default. You must log in to the Cisco UCS Director as the ucsdadmin user.

Initial Login
Table 3. New and Changed Information in Cisco UCS Director, Release 6.9(1.0)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

BigData personality

The BigData personality and the Cisco BigData Express connector have been removed.

Working with Licenses in Cisco UCS Director
Table 4. New and Changed Information in Cisco UCS Director, Release 6.9

Feature

Description

Where Documented

CSV format reports.

In this release, you can generate, export and email CloudSense reports in CSV format.

GUI edit of LDAP server IP.

The LDAP server IP address in LDAP Integration can be edited in this release.

Modifying LDAP Server Details

Custom User input for resizing the memory of a VM.

In this release of Cisco UCS Director 6900, users have a provision to Resize their VM(s) using a Custom User Input via both GUI action and Workflow Task.

Resizing VMs