New and Changed Information for this Release

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New and Changed Information

The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to this guide for the 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, 6.9(2.0)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Deployment of Windows Server 2025 OS through PXE

Allows you to deploy Windows Server 2025 OS on the Dell, HP, and UCSM bare metal servers using PXE boot and installation operations.

Windows Server 2025 x64 Operating System Images

vMedia support for provisioning Windows Server 2022 OS

Allows you to provision Windows Server 2022 OS to Dell, HP, and UCSM bare metal servers using vMedia.

Windows OS Provisioning through vMedia

Provisioning OS Images through Orchestration Workflow Tasks

Shelladmin options for bmaadmin user

The root user access is disabled and bmaadmin user is enabled by default. The following shell admin options are introduced:

  • Manage bmaadmin Access

  • Login as bmaadmin

 Managing bmaadmin Access

Configuring password policy

The new Shell admin option Configure Password Policy allows you to define a password policy that must be followed while setting passwords for shelladmin, bmaadmin, and root users.

Configuring Password Policy
Table 2. New and Changed Information in Cisco UCS Director, 6.9(1.0)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

vMedia support for provisioning non-Windows OSs

The Cisco UCS Director enables vMedia support on the Bare Metal Agent. The vMedia supports provisioning of the following OSs for Dell, HP, and UCSM bare metal servers:

  • ESXi

  • RHEL

Non-Windows OS Provisioning Through vMedia
Table 3. New and Changed Information in Cisco UCS Director, 6.9(0.0)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support for BMA version 6.9(0.0)