New and Changed Information for This Release

New and Changed Information

This section provides information on new features and changed behaviors in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3.

Table 1. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(5d)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Enhanced Login Profile settings

Cisco UCS Manager includes the enhanced the Login Profile settings by allowing administrators to configure user blocking either a global level for all users or individually per user.

Login Profile

Table 2. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(5a)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support for Security Management

Cisco UCS Manager introduces security management and supports AES encryption for enhanced security.

Support for Cisco UCS C-Series M8 servers

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS C225 M8 Server.

Intersight Management Mode

Support for Cisco UCS X-Series M8 servers

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS X215c M8 Compute Node.

Intersight Management Mode

Table 3. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(4b)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support for Cisco UCS X-Series Direct

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS X-Series Direct.

Table 4. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(4b)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support for Cisco UCS C-Series M8 servers

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS C245 M8 Servers.

Device Connector

Table 5. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(4a)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support for TLS 1.3

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Only TLSv1.3 as allowed SSL protocol for configuring HTTPS communication.

Configuring HTTPS

Table 6. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(2c)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support for Cisco UCS X-Series M7 servers

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS X410c M7 Compute Node.

Cisco UCS X-Series servers support Intelligent Fabric Modules (IFM), which function similarly to the Input/Output Module (IOM) in Cisco UCS B-Series servers.

Table 7. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(2b)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support for Cisco UCS C-Series M7 servers

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS C220 M7 Server and Cisco UCS C240 M7 Server servers .

Support for Cisco UCS X-Series M6 and M7 servers

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS X210c M6 Compute Node and Cisco UCS X210c M7 Compute Node.

Cisco UCS X-Series servers support Intelligent Fabric Modules (IFM), which function similarly to the Input/Output Module (IOM) in Cisco UCS B-Series servers.

Support for IIS Soft Check License

Cisco UCS Manager now supports IIS Soft Check License for Cisco UCS Manager X-Series and/or Cisco UCS Manager M7 Rack servers.

Device Connector

Deprecated support for Cisco UCS C-Series M4 server.

Cisco UCS Manager support for Cisco UCS M4 server is deprecated.

Deprecated support for Cisco UCS 6200 series Fabric Interconnect.

Cisco UCS Manager support for Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnect is deprecated.