New and Changed Information

New and Changed Information for This Release

New Features and Changed in Cisco UCS Director, Release 6.9

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 6.9(2.0)

Feature

Description

Where documented

Hybrid Slots Configuration

Allows you to configure hybrid slots when creating storage profiles.

Monitoring a Server and its Components

Data Sanitization

Allows you to securely erase data from server components.

Data Sanitization

PCIe Nodes Report Inventory

Allows you to view the inventory reports for PCIe nodes and associated PCIe connector, Retimer and GPUs in the following ways:

  • Chassis level PCIe nodes report

  • Server level PCIe nodes report

About Monitoring and Reporting
Table 2. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Director, Release 6.9

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Enhancement to existing UCS Chassis Inventory report and support for new Global Equipment Polices for UCS Chassis X9508

The Chassis inventory of Cisco UCS Director Physical Compute module is enhanced with new XFM modules inventory report and with new Fan Modules under I/O Modules report.

Support for Global Equipment Policies for UCS Chassis X9508 in Cisco UCS Director Compute module described below.

  • Power Policy - Specifies the redundancy for power supplies in all chassis in a Cisco UCS domain.

  • Cisco UCSX-9508 Chassis Power Extended Policy - Manages the chassis to maximize energy efficiency or availability. Power Extended Policy is effective only when we have PSU Redundant Policy Mode. For example, the total power available can be extended when we have N+1, N+2 and Grid to PSU Redundancy modes.

  • Cisco UCSX-9508 Chassis Fan Control Policy - Allows you to control the fan speed to bring down server power consumption and noise levels.

Monitoring a Chassis and its Components.

Global Equipment Polices