New and Changed Information

New and Changed Information

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

Table 1. New Feature and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(6c)

BIOS Tokens

Cisco UCS Manager now has modified BIOS token values for Cisco UCS M8 servers.

Processor BIOS Settings

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

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support for Cisco UCS X-Series and C-Series M8 servers

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS X210c M8 Compute Node, Cisco UCS C240 M8 Server, and Cisco UCS C220 M8 Server.

Support for CPU Package Power Limit (PPL)

Cisco UCS Manager supports configuring the CPU Package Power Limit for Power Control Policy.

Creating a Power Control Policy

Support for Maximum Cooling in Fan Speed Policy

Cisco UCS Manager supports Maximum Cooling option in Fan Speed Policy to optimize cooling efficiency for CPU.

Creating a Power Control Policy

Support for IPv6 PXE Network Boot

Cisco UCS Manager now supports PXE Boot using UEFI mode in IPv6-only environments.

BIOS Tokens

Cisco UCS Manager now has new BIOS tokens for Cisco UCS X210c M8 Compute Node, Cisco UCS C240 M8 Server, and Cisco UCS C220 M8 Server.

Table 3. New Feature and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(5c)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

BIOS Tokens

Cisco UCS Manager includes updates to BIOS tokens for Cisco UCS C-Series and X-Series M7 and M8 servers.

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

Feature

Description

Where Documented

BIOS Tokens

Cisco UCS Manager now has new BIOS tokens and modifications to existing BIOS tokens and values for Cisco UCS C225 M8 Server.

Support for Cisco UCS C-Series M8 servers

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS C225 M8 Server.

Support for Cisco UCS X-Series M8 servers

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

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

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support for Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects 9108 100G

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects 9108 100G (Cisco UCS X-Series Direct).

Table 6. New Feature and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(4b)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

BIOS Tokens

Cisco UCS Manager now has new BIOS tokens and modifications to existing BIOS tokens and values for Cisco UCS C245 M8 Servers.

Support for Cisco UCS M8 servers

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS C245 M8 Servers.

Table 7. New Feature and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(4a)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support for Data Sanitization for Cisco UCS M5, M6, and M7 servers

Cisco UCS Manager now supports data sanitization feature. Using the data sanitization process, Cisco UCS Manager erases all sensitive data, thus making extraction or recovery of customer data impossible.

Data Sanitization

BIOS Tokens

Cisco UCS Manager now has new BIOS tokens and modifications to existing BIOS tokens and values.

Table 8. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(6g)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support Cisco UCS C-Series M7 servers

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

Support 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.

Support for Power Capping and Power Management for Cisco UCSX-9508 Chassis

Cisco UCS Manager now supports Power Capping and Power Management for Cisco UCSX-9508 Chassis.

Power Capping in Cisco UCS

Deprecated support for Cisco UCS M4 servers.

Cisco UCS Manager support for Cisco UCS M4 servers are deprecated.

Deprecated support for Cisco UCS 6200 series Fabric Interconnect.

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

Table 9. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3(2c)

Feature

Description

Where Documented

Support 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.

Support Cisco UCS VIC

Cisco UCS Manager now supports following VIC cards:

  • Cisco UCS VIC 15230

  • Cisco UCS VIC 15427

  • Cisco UCS VIC 15237 mLOM