New and Changed

New and Changed Information for this Release

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, Release 5.5

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Add vNIC Template task

The Add vNIC Template task has been added to the Task Library to enhance automation.

Task Library
Delete vNIC Template task

The Delete vNIC Template task has been added to the Task Library to enhance automation.

Task Library

Add VLAN to Global vNIC Template task

The Add vNIC to Global vNIC Template task has been added to the Task Library to enhance automation.

Task Library

Delete VLAN from Global vNIC Template task

The Delete vNIC from Global vNIC Template task has been added to the Task Library to enhance automation.

Task Library

Add vNIC to Global Service Profile task

The Add vNIC to Global Service Profile task has been added to the Task Library to enhance automation.

Task Library

Delete vNIC From Global Service Profile task

The Delete vNIC from Global Service Profile task has been added to the Task Library to enhance automation.

Task Library

Select Global UCS Service Profile task

The Select Global UCS Service Profile task has been added to the Task Library to enhance automation.

Task Library

Modified Create Global Service Profile task

Added Server Identity to Create Global Service Profile task.

Task Library

Modified Create Global Service Profile from Template task

Added Server Identity to Create Global Service Profile from Template task.

Task Library

Support for 10 vNICs

Updated Network Policy screen with support for 10 vNics.

Creating a Network Policy

Support for 10 vNICs in UCS Service Profile Tasks

Added vNIC Outputs to the existing tasks under Workflow task UCSM. Tasks ask for service profile identity and provide the vNIC related outputs.

Tasks affected are:

  1. Select UCS service profile
  2. Create UCS service profile
  3. Create UCS service profile from template

Task Library

Bind UCS Central Global Service Profile vNIC to Template task

The user can select the Global service profile and the associated vNIC will be available for the selection. Then the user can select the updating vNIC template to bind the SP vNIC.

Task Library

Unbind UCS Central Global Service Profile vNIC from Template task

The user can select the Global service profile and the associated vNIC on which the unbind operation needs to be performed

Task Library

Added Input to "Associate Global Service Profile" task

Added new user input/output field for Server Pool Qualification Policy

Task Library

Added New Outputs to "Create Global Service Task"

Added new outputs

Task Library

Added New Outputs to "Create Global Service Template"

Added new outputs

Task Library

Added New Outputs to "Select UCS Global Service Profile"

Added new outputs

Task Library

Add VLAN to Global Service Profile

Added VLAN to Global Service Profile - with or without selecting vNIC.

  • Common/Global VLAN
  • Fabric A or B or Both
  • any one VLAN can be set as native

Task Library

Delete VLAN from Global Service Profile

Added new task

Task Library

Add vHBA to Global Service Profile

Without template - Allow creation of a new vHBA and add it to Service Profile.

With Template - Allow mapping of an existing template to Service Profile.

Task Library

Delete vHBA from Global Service Profile

Added new task

Task Library

Modify VLAN Org Permission

Added new task

Task Library

Support for 10 vHBAs

Updated Storage Policy screen with support for 10 vNics.

Creating a Storage Policy

Support for 10 vHBAs in UCS Service Profile Tasks

Added vHBA Outputs to the existing tasks under Workflow task UCSM. Tasks ask for service profile identity and provide the vHBA related outputs.

Tasks affected are:

  1. Select UCS service profile
  2. Create UCS service profile
  3. Create UCS service profile from template

Task Library

Generic Configure SAN ZONING support added to Global Service Profile

Two new fields have been added to the task.
  • Service profile type:
    • For UCS Manager and UCS Central Account selection.
    • It's not supported in Admin Input Type.
    • Mandatory field to which Task Execution to be decided based on this selection.
  • Global Service Profile:
    • On choosing the 'Service Profile type' as 'Global Service Profile' this input field is displayed on the page and 'Service Profile' input will be hidden from the page.
    • On choosing the 'Service Profile type' as 'Service Profile' this input field is displayed on the page and 'Global Service Profile' input will be hidden from the page.

Task Library

Added IDUsage tab.

Shows the ID usage utilization inventory and the tabular representation related to each domain associated to a central account.

BM Testing with the UCS Central Tasks