{"id":151,"date":"2010-06-11T05:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T11:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2010-06-11T05:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T11:33:17","slug":"ucsm-1-31c-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"UCSM 1.3(1c) Released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco has released UCS Manager version 1.3(1c).\u00a0\u00a0 This is the first public release in the 1.3 line, also known as &#8220;Aptos+&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Release notes are here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/docs\/unified_computing\/ucs\/release\/notes\/ucs_22863.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/docs\/unified_computing\/ucs\/release\/notes\/ucs_22863.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t gotten a chance to play with the new version yet, but there are some significant enhancements.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Among them&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 GE support on UCS6120 and UCS6140 Fabric Interconnects\n<ul>\n<li>On the 6120, you can now use 1GE transceivers in the first 8 physical ports.<\/li>\n<li>On the 6140, you can now use 1GE transceivers in the first 16 physical ports.<\/li>\n<li>Watch for a post soon on why I think this is a bad idea.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Support for the new, 2nd generation mezzanine cards\n<ul>\n<li>Both Emulex and Qlogic have produced a 2nd generation mezzanine card, using a single-chip design which should lower power consumption\n<ul>\n<li>Be warned that these new mezzanine cards won&#8217;t support the &#8220;Fabric Failover&#8221; feature as supported by the first generation CNAs, or by the VIC (Palo) adapter<\/li>\n<li>These aren&#8217;t shipping quite yet, but will be soon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A Broadcom BCM57711 mezzanine adapter\n<ul>\n<li>This will compete with the Intel based, 10GE mezzanine adapters that UCS has had until now<\/li>\n<li>The Broadcom card supports TOE (TCP Offload Engine) and iSCSI Offload, but not iSCSI boot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>An updated Intel mezzanine adapter, based on the Niantic chipset<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Support for the B440-M1 blade\n<ul>\n<li>The B440 blade will be available in a 2 or 4 processor configuration, using the Intel Xeon 7500 processors<\/li>\n<li>Up to 4 SFFP hard drives<\/li>\n<li>32 DIMM slots, for up to 256GB of memory<\/li>\n<li>2 Mezzanine slots<\/li>\n<li>Full-width form factor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>SSD hard drive support in B200-M2, B250-M2, and B440-M1 blades\n<ul>\n<li>First drive available is a Samsung 100GB SSD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Improved SNMP support\n<ul>\n<li>This has been a weakness since the original release of UCSM<\/li>\n<li>SNMP traps are now available for all UCS components, including blades, chassis, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Download the MIB information here: <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp-sj.cisco.com\/pub\/mibs\/supportlists\/ucs\/ucs-supportlist.html\" target=\"_blank\">ftp:\/\/ftp-sj.cisco.com\/pub\/mibs\/supportlists\/ucs\/ucs-supportlist.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ability to configure more BIOS options, such as virtualization options, through the service profiles\n<ul>\n<li>This is a big step towards making UCS blades honestly and truly stateless<\/li>\n<li>Previously, I&#8217;d recommended that UCS customers configure each blade&#8217;s BIOS options to support virtualization when they received them, whether or not they were going to use ESX\/etc on all of the blades.\u00a0 This way they didn&#8217;t have to worry about setting them again when moving service profiles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Support for heterogeneous mezzanine adapters in full-width blades<\/li>\n<li>Increased the supported limit of chassis to 14.<\/li>\n<li>Increased the limit of VLANs in UCSM to 512\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s been some discussion around this lately, particular in the service provider space.\u00a0\u00a0 Many service providers need many more VLANs than this for their architectures.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve seen reference to a workaround using ESX, Nexus 1000V, private VLANs, and a promiscuous VLAN through the Fabric Interconnect into an upstream switch, but I&#8217;m still trying to get my head around that one.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ability to cap power levels per blade\n<ul>\n<li>Will have to wait until I get a chance to test out the code level to see what kinds of options are available here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking forward to seeing customer reaction to the new features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco has released UCS Manager version 1.3(1c).\u00a0\u00a0 This is the first public release in the 1.3 line, also known as &#8220;Aptos+&#8221;. Release notes are here: http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/docs\/unified_computing\/ucs\/release\/notes\/ucs_22863.html Haven&#8217;t gotten a chance to play with the new version yet, but there are some significant enhancements.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Among them&#8230; 1 GE support on UCS6120 and UCS6140 Fabric Interconnects On &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/?p=151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UCSM 1.3(1c) Released!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[55,56],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ucs-hardware","category-ucs-management","tag-ucsm","tag-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedcomputingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}