Release Notes for EMC Connector Pack
Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director delivers unified, highly secure management for supported compute, network, storage, and virtualization platforms and for the industry's leading converged infrastructure solutions, which are based on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) and Cisco Nexus platforms. Cisco UCS Director extends the unification of computing and network layers through Cisco UCS to provide data center administrators with comprehensive visibility and management capabilities for compute, network, storage, and virtualization. For more information, see Cisco UCS Director on Cisco.com.
Revision History
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6.7.2.1 |
July 18, 2019 |
Created for Release 6.7.2.1. |
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6.7.4.1 |
July 9, 2020 |
Updated to include information on Release 6.7.4.1. |
Connector Pack
Connector packs help you perform connector level upgrade in Cisco UCS Director without impacting other connectors. After claiming Cisco UCS Director in Cisco Intersight, as a system administrator, you can view information on new versions of connector packs that are available for upgrade. The top header pane of the user interface displays a Download icon indicating that new connector pack versions are available. You can select and upgrade the connector packs in Cisco UCS Director.
EMC Connector Pack
Cisco UCS Director supports EMC storage systems and data protection systems. The EMC connector pack provides features and defect fixes for new versions of EMC.
The following connectors are available in Connector Pack, Release 6.7.2.1:
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EMC VNX
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EMC VNXE
EMC XtremIO connector is available in Connector Pack, Release 6.7.4.1.
Upgrading Connector Packs
Before you begin
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You must have system administrator privileges in Cisco UCS Director.
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Cisco UCS Director has been claimed in Cisco Intersight. For information on claiming a device, see the integrated guided walkthrough titled Learn How to Claim a Device available within the Online Help menu in the Cisco Intersight user interface.
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Cisco UCS Director is successfully connected to Cisco Intersight.
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Take a snapshot of Cisco UCS Director before you initiate the upgrade.
Procedure
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On the header, click New Upgrades Available. The Available System Upgrades screen appears and will display all available connector packs for upgrade along with version information. Upon login, if you clicked Yes to the pop-up message, then the very same upgrade screen appears.
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Check the check box of a connector pack from the list. You can check the check boxes of multiple connector packs. |
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Click Upgrade. |
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In the Confirm Upgrade dialog box, click Yes. After you confirm that the connector version must be upgraded, the validation process is initiated. If the validation process completes successfully, the upgrade process is initiated and the System Upgrade Status screen displays the upgrade status. After the upgrade process is successful, the Logout option is enabled. |
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Click Logout. While upgrading a base platform pack that includes changes to all infrastructure components, all Cisco UCS Director services are restarted. As a result, after clicking Logout, the screen could appear to be unresponsive for a few minutes. After all the services are restarted, and the upgrade process is complete, you can login to Cisco UCS Director . |
What to do next
You can view the upgrade reports by choosing . From this screen, you can double-click on a report, and view additional details on the upgrade process. For more information, see Viewing Connector Pack Upgrade Information.
Viewing Connector Pack Upgrade Information
Procedure
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Choose . |
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On the System page, click System Updates. Information such as upgrade request ID, user that initiated the upgrade, upgrade start time and end time, and the upgrade
status are displayed.
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Select a connector pack and choose View Details to view details such as connector pack name, upgraded version, and prior version. |
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Click State History to view the various states of the connector pack upgrade process. For example, upgrade request received, upgrade process initiated or upgrade process completed. |
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Click Stages to view the entire lifecycle of the connector pack upgrade request. |
New and Changed Features in Release 6.7.2.1
There are only bug fixes in this release.
New and Changed Features in Release 6.7.4.1
There are only bug fixes in this release.
Open Bugs in Release 6.7.2.1
There are no open bugs in this release.
Open Bugs in Release 6.7.4.1
There are no open bugs in this release.
Resolved Bugs in Release 6.7.2.1
All resolved bugs for this release are available in the Cisco Bug Search Tool.
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Bug ID |
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EMC VNX Logical Unit Number (LUN) is not displayed in the End User Portal after assigning it to the end user/group. |
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Localization issue is found in . |
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Warning message should be displayed, while deleting any resource assigned to an enduser group. |
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Storage Pool Name input type is given as generic text in Expand VNX Block Storage Pool task instead of Storage Pool Identity. |
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VNXE FCP Datastore resize is not working. |
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Datastore name is displayed twice under the Datastore column in LUN report. |
Resolved Bugs in Release 6.7.4.1
All resolved bugs for this release are available in the Cisco Bug Search Tool.
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Bug ID |
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Out-of-band (OOB) tasks for EMC XtremIO connector fails, if there is a space in the volume name. |
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