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• Windows 2012 NPIV Support
• Single iQN for iSCSI Boot• ESX/Linux fNIC Driver Enhancements
• SD Card Boot Support
• Transportable Flash Module (TFM) Support
• Multi-hop FCoE
• Zoning configuration in UCSM
• PCIe Flash – Discovery and support (in progress)
• Unified Appliance Port
• KVM Session Management
• Fabric Interconnect HA Firmware Auto Sync
• Nested LDAP Group Support
• VIC PXE Boot Optimization• UCSM GUI Size Optimization
• Blade Health LED Monitoring
• M3 Board Programmables Firmware Update
• C22 3.5”, C24 2.5”, C24 3.5”, and C240 NEBS refresh
Storage
Enhancements
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• IGMP querying
• VLAN Group• (P, V) count optimization
• VM-FEX for Windows Server 8 HyperV (including SRIOV)
• Single wire management w/ VIC 1225
• Global Service Profiles• Global Domain Specific Identifiers
• Enhanced Inventory of UCS
• Globalization/Localization of Policies
• Support for UCS Central operations
Networking
C-series
UCS Central 1.1
Support
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• Storage
• Storage
• C-series• Operational Enhancements
• Networking
• VM-FEX
• 2.1.2 Features
• 2.1.2 Feature
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• Access to FCoE target storage connected to anupstream MDS, N5K or N7K
• “Unified Uplink” carries Ethernet and
FCoE traffic on one uplink
• Supported topologies documented at
launch
• Fabric Interconnect in NPV mode• VNP ports primary use case
• FC Switching Mode and VE Ports limited
testing
• Check HCL for supported configurations
• End-to-end or multi-hop FCoE
• Savings from LAN/SAN consolidationupstream from the UCS Fabric Interconnects
Customer benefits
Feature details
Storage
UCS servers
UCS FI UCS FI
FCoE Storage
MDS/N5K/N7K MDS/N5K/N7K
NPV/EHM
FCoEFCoE
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• Direct attach FC/FCoE storage with noupstream FC switch, 1.4, 2.0 caveat removed
• FC zoning enabled within UCSM
• Zoning support in FC switch mode only
• FC zoning enabled/disabled per VSAN
• Implicit zone creation
• No need to manually create zones
• Single-initiator-single-target or single-
initiator-multiple-target zones
• Migration steps to/from topologies with
upstream FC switches will be documented
• Supported on EMC and Netapp
Direct connection of FC/FCoE storage to FIwith no need for upstream FC switch
Lower cost point for smaller deployments
Customer benefits
Feature details
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UCS FI UCS FI
FCoE Storage FC Storage
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• Feature will provide support for PCIe-based flash storage in Romley blades
• Mezzanine cards* (non-mLOM slot)
• UCS Manager will only discover and
inventory the cards in this release
• Firmware upgrades and pool
qualification features will be in a post-
Del Mar release
High performance flash storage in blades
Support for applications with high IOPsrequirements
Customer benefits
Feature details
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• “Unified Appliance Port” • Single connection between FI and
storage array for FCoE, NFS, CIFS and
iSCSI access
• Cable and port reduction
• Initial support for NetApp arrays only
• Only vendor shipping unified target
ports today
• Caveat: No port channels for Unified
Appliance port connections
File and block data over a single cable
Cost reduction for UCS customers throughport and cable consolidation
Customer benefits
Feature details
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UCS FI UCS FI
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• C-Series• Operational Enhancements
• Networking
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• Management and data for C-Series rack
servers carried over single wire, rather than
separate wires
• Requires VIC 1225 “Lexington” adapter
• Supported on C260M2, C460M2 and all M3Rack Servers
• Continues to offer scale of up to 160 servers
across blade and rack in a single domain
Up to double the number of servers on sameNexus 2232PP compared to prior release
Reduced cabling cost and port count whenintegrating C-Series to UCSM
Truly a Unified Fabric for both B and C-Seriesservers
Customer benefits
Feature details
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Nexus 2232PP
UCS
Manager
Mgmt/Data Connection
VIC 1225
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• Networking• VM-FEX
• 2.1.2 Features
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• Administrators can utilize a simple wizard-likeinterface to specify which version of firmware
they would like to upgrade either their
infrastructure or servers to
• Sequencing of firmware updates is handled
automatically to ensure the least downtime
• Intermediate user acknowledgement during
fabric upgrade allows users to verify thatelements such as storage are in an
appropriate state before continuing the
upgrade
Users can utilize a tool to automaticallysequence and apply upgrades to each systemendpoint, simplifying the process
Customer benefits
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• When new fabric interconnect is brought into a UCS
HA cluster, the firmware gets synchronized
automatically from the active Fabric Interconnect
• Sync up of UCSM database and configuration as
usual once the HA cluster is formed
• Active Fabric Interconnect must be at UCSM
firmware version1.4 (Balboa) or later.
• Both Fabrics must be of same model
• Seamless integration of new Fabric Interconnect into
a UCS HA cluster (e.g. RMA)
• Firmware automatically synchronized and updated
from active Fabric Interconnect
Customer benefits
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•Users will have the ability to rename a Service
Profile in its current place in the org tree
• Old IDs (e.g., UUID, MAC, WWN) are
retained
• New audit logs, events, and faults
reference the new name
• Existing audit logs, events, and faultsfrom the original Service Profile remain
available under the original name
• No server reboot is necessary
Customers can simplify operations byaligning Service Profile names with theirnaming conventions
Customer benefits
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• Fault suppression offers the ability tolower severity of designated faults for a
maintenance window, preventing Call
Home and SNMP traps during that
period
• Predefined policies allow a user to easilyplace a server into a maintenance mode
to suppress faults during maintenance
operations
Customers can align UCSM fault alertingwith their operational activities
Customer benefits
Feature details
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Enhancements
User will be able to right click on an SP and opt
to place it into maintenance mode
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• Three features are introduced:
1. Organization aware VLANs
• Additional security by constraining VLAN
access by organization
2. LAN and SAN connectivity policies
• Separate LAN and SAN connectivity policies
describe network and storage resources
3. New opt-in server admin privilege
• Privilege with ability to manage service
profiles, but not network or storage objects
beyond ability to consume a LAN and SAN
connectivity policy
Collection of features to increase customersecurity and simplify network and storageconnectivity management
Customer benefits
Feature details
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Enhancements
LAN connectivity policy
vNIC eth0
…
vNIC ethn
Adapter profile
Identity pool (wwpn, mac)
Network control policy
Network template
Statistics policy
Order
Pin group
QoS policy
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• Privileges documentation• New documentation is being provided to explain privileges in detail
Mixed infrastructure and server pack support “Del Mar” infrastructure will be officially supported with a set of 2.0
server packs, allowing customers to avoid disruptive server reboots
Troubleshooting enhancements “FSM tab” in UCSM is being enhanced to provide more information,
aiding in troubleshooting efforts Enhancements include an expansion of information displayed, including:
• Expected FSM stage transitions• Current and prior stage history
IGMP querying Feature provides parity with Nexus feature support for multicast
VLAN Group Simplified SP configuration, allowing application of a group of VLANs to a
vnic in single step
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• Optimizes (P,V) to increase supported limit
• Increase Scale from 32K to up to 64K* on the
6248/6296
• *Caveat: -Actual Limit dependent on
environment/configuration
• Enable higher scale in (P,V) count (also know as
logical ports)
• Important for customers with:
• ESX DVS or Nexus 1kV
• Multi-tenant – Service Provider/Enterprise
• High # of Servers with high # of VLAN –
GET/Enterprise/Commercial/SLED
Customer benefits
Feature details
Networking
User will be able to enable or disable (default)
feature in global policies
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• VM-FEX• 2.1.2 Features
• VM-FEX
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• Uses SR-IOV to extend physical network all the
way to the virtual machines
• Provides each virtual machine with dedicated
“port” on the physical network
• Collection of Cisco UCS VM-FEX and Fabric
Interconnect 1 vNetwork Distributed switch
•Management via PowerShell and stand alone
GUI. UCSM-SCVMM integration in future
Customers can consolidate virtual and physicalnetworking infrastructure
Brings high performance I/O to VMs and with host CPUsavings
Customer benefits
Feature details
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• Requirements:
UCSM 2.1(2) Windows fNIC driver
UCSM 2.1(2) VIC Firmware Image
UCSM 2.1(2) on Fabric Interconnect/IOMs
Hyper-V 2012 and Windows 2012 Guests
• Is NOT a Hypervisor bypass feature
• No UCSM integration, all in fNIC driver
• SCVMM management being worked by MS
• No support for UCSM FC Zoning feature
UCSM based zoning does not recognize these
HBAs
Being scoped for future release of UCSM
• (VM) running on a server can share a singleadapter, and still have independent access toits own protected storage
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• Prior releases, two iSCSI vNICs would result in two
iQNs being created for each service profile.
• This worked but did not follow accepted conventions
in the industry for a single iQN per host
• Operational benefits for administrators to now have
option of single iQN
• Eases array side configuration requirements.
• One iQN per service profile even with twoiSCSI vNICs
• Follows industry convention for S/W iSCSIbooting
Customer benefits
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• Supported on ESX and Linux versions on 2.1(2) HCL
(except ESX 4.x)
• CLI only, no UCSM integration at this time.
• LUN queue depth and maximum outstanding I/Os
are new tuneables exposed
• Statistics collection will show all I/O activity in driver
layer on user defined intervals
“iostat” for fNIC
• Configuration guides will be available at CCO posting
• New Tuneables Exposed via CLI
• Statistics Collection in the driver
Customer benefits
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• Support for M3 blades (B200 M3, B420 M3, and B22 M3)
• Initially just 1 SD card (in either slot)• Manual BIOS support means user enters BIOS (F2 key) and
selects SD card as boot device
Note: there is UCSM-enablement to do this though no
visible support for SD card within UCSM in Phase 1
Enable manual boot from SD card (typically for ESXi),replacing need for local HDDs
Customer benefits
Phase 1 support – Feature details
UCS M3 blade server
Cisco UCS offers a 16GB SD card
Phase 2 support – Feature details
• Phase 2 is targeting El Capitan release:
UCS Manager discovery of card(s)
Mirroring/dual SD cards support
Ability to select SD card or internal USB as boot device in
Service Profile (with 2nd level boot order support)
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• Indicate the presence of TFM and SuperCap in
UCSM
• Inventory of the SuperCap attributes
• Monitor the temperature and charge of SuperCap
• Predictive failure of SuperCap and recommendation
for replacement
• Ability to monitor the Transportable Flash Module
(TFM) and SuperCap in UCSM
Customer benefits
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• Display Session Information
• Session Type: KVM, vMedia, SOL
• IP from which session is launched
• Administrator can terminate sessions
• User access privileges – read only, read/write/admin
• Terminate sessions without restarting KVM/vMediaserver
• Robust multi-user CIMC Session Management
• Role-based access privileges
Customer benefits
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• Supported only for Microsoft Active Directory
• No changes to current behavior when choosing
OpenLDAP as vendor
• Nested group membership validated only when
recursive group traversal is enabled in UCSM
• No limit on level of indirect membership configuration
• Enables faster response for LDAP login, in case
of nested LDAP group membership
Customer benefits
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• Addresses issues around slow PXE/remote boot
using Cisco VIC in prior releases
• Achieved 60% faster PXE boot time as compared to
prior releases
• In line with industry standard boot times
• Substantial improvement of PXE boot time using
the Cisco VIC
Customer benefits
Feature details
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• Image optimization and better Jar files compression
• Size reduced by 83% (from 52.3MB down to 8.3MB)
• Substantial improvement in UCSM GUI launch
speed
• Better GUI launch experience over low bandwidth
network connections/VPN (even across continents)
Customer benefits
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• Blade health LED is located in the front panel, and
indicates the overall blade health
• Multiple sensors on board (component voltage,
temperature, DIMM ECC errors, etc) can impact
health LED
• Green color reflects normal operation• UCSM raises fault when blade health LED turns
amber (minor) or amber blinking (critical)
• UCSM monitors the blade health LED and raises
faults for critical or minor errors
Customer benefits
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• Host Firmware Packages policy provides the option
to select the Board Controller Firmware
• Direct update option available for servers not
associated with a Service Profile
• Self Install Executable runs on CIMC and does the
actual update of the programmable devices• Available for Romley platforms onwards
• Ability to update the firmware of programmable
devices on M3 boards (Power sequencer, LED
controller, etc) in the field
Customer benefits
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• Platinum Efficiency PSU
• Initial Support for 200 – 240 at2500W output
• Future Support for 100 – 120V at1300W output.
• No physical changes to PSU
At 200 – 240V is a replacement for existingsupply
• 100 – 120V requires a firmwareupdate (likely El Cap MR2)
Using older revisions there will be errors inUCSM
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• Global Service ProfilesService Profiles get defined in UCS Central
They are associated with server at the local domain
UCS Manager caches read-only all of the referred global policies
• Global Domain Specific Identifiers
Restricted visibility of IDs defined in global ID pools on a per domain basis
• Enhanced Inventory of UCS
• Globalization of local policiesLocal policies can be made global and “imported” into UCS Central
Such global policies can then be shared with peer domains• Localization of global policies
Global policies can be localized within a UCS domain
Changes can be made to these local policies at that time
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