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UCS Manager 2.1 Featureoverview



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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

OperationalEnhancements




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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

VM-FEX




• 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

FCoE FCoE






• 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

Storage

UCS servers

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

Storage

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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

Storage

UCS servers

UCS FI UCS FI

Storage

FCoEiSCSINFSCIFS



• C-Series• Operational Enhancements

• Networking

• VM-FEX

• 2.1.2 Features





• 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

UCS 6100 or 6200 UCS 6100 or 6200

Nexus 2232PP

UCS

Manager

Mgmt/Data Connection

VIC 1225

C-series



• Operational Enhancements

• 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

Feature details

Operational

Enhancements




• 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

Feature details

Operational






•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

Feature details

Operational

Enhancements

Operational






• 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

Operational

Enhancements

User will be able to right click on an SP and opt

to place it into maintenance mode

Operational






• 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

Operational

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

Operational






• 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

Details

Operational

Enhancements




• Networking • VM-FEX

• 2.1.2 Features






• 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




• VM-FEX• 2.1.2 Features

• VM-FEX

VM FEX






• 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

VM-FEX




• 2.1.2 Features






• 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

Customer benefits

Feature details





• 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

Feature details






• 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

Feature details






• 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)





• 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

Feature details





• 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

Feature details





• 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

Feature details





• 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

Feature details





• 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

Feature details

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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

Feature details





• 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





• 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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