New and Changed Information

New and Changed Information

This section provides information on new features and changed behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 3.1 (x).

New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 3.1 (3)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Custom User Label – Asset Tag

Service profiles now have a customer label field that is visible to the operating system or hypervisor running on the server through the SMBIOS asset tag field.

Setting an Asset Tag for a Service Profile

Diagnostics

The Cisco UCS Manager diagnostics tool enables you to verify the health of the hardware components on your servers.

Overview of Cisco UCS Manager Diagnostics

Hardware Change Discovery Policy

When UCSM detects any change in the server hardware component, a critical “hardware inventory mismatch” fault is raised. You must acknowledge the server to clear the fault and complete the hardware inventory.

Hardware Change Discovery Policy

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

Graphics Card Policies

This release extends graphics card support to include the ability to change the graphics card mode from a graphics card policy.

Graphics Card Policies

Smart SSD

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

Smart SSD

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

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Updated Power Sync Policy

Cisco UCS Manager does not power on the blade server after shallow discovery when the power state for a service profile is set to ON.

Power Sync Policy