New and Changed Information

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 Manager, Release 3.1(3)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Cisco UCS C3260/C3X60 re-branding.

Beginning with Cisco UCS Manager Release 3.1(3), Cisco UCS C3260/C3X60 is renamed to Cisco UCS S3260. You may still see certain components in the system labeled as C3260/C3X60. For this release, the terms S3260 and C3260/C3X60 are used interchangeably. Both, S3260 and C3260/C3X60, refer to the same hardware component..

Chassis Management in Cisco UCS Manager GUI

Smart SSD

Cisco UCS Manager supports monitoring SSD health. This feature is called Smart SSD feature.

Smart SSD

Viewing the Power Transition Log

The Power Transition Log was added which logs the last five server power transitions, the power transition source timestamp of the latest power transition, and the count of the last consecutive server power transitions from the same source.

Viewing the Power Transition Log

Table 2 New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 3.1(2)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Server Factory Reset

Factory reset of servers.

Resetting a Rack-Mount Server to Factory Default Settings

Resetting a Blade Server to Factory Default Settings

Resetting a Cisco UCS S3260 Server Node to Factory Default Settings

Enable 'hardware multicast hw-hash' on server port-channels

Multicast Hardware Hash—In a portchannel, by default, ingress multicasttraffic on any port in the fabricinterconnect (FI) selects a particularlink between the IOM and the fabricinterconnect to egress the traffic. Toreduce potential issues with thebandwidth, and to provide effectiveload balancing of the ingress multicasttraffic, hardware hashing is used formulticast traffic. When multicasthardware hashing is enabled, all linksbetween the IOM and the fabricinterconnect in a port channel can beused for multicast traffic.

Chassis/​FEX Discovery Policy