Sep 20
What, not a VMware release you say? This one is very important to my customers as many have been waiting a long time for iSCSI boot on UCS. The new software can be downloaded here. Here’s the What’s New section from the Release Notes:
New Hardware Features in Release 2.0(1)
Release 2.0(1) adds support for:
• Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric interconnect
•Cisco 2208 IO Module
•2500 Watt DC Power Supply for the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
New Software Features in Release 2.0(1)
Release 2.0(1) adds support for:
•Licensing – Updated information for new UCS hardware.
•Firmware Bundle Option - Enables you to select a bundle instead of a version when updating firmware using the Cisco UCS Manager GUI.
•Disk Drive Monitoring Support - Support for disk drive monitoring on certain blade servers and a specific LSI storage controller firmware level.
•iSCSI Boot - iSCSI boot enables a server to boot its operating system from an iSCSI target machine located remotely over a network.
•Pre-login Banner - Displays user-defined banner text prior to login when a user logs into Cisco UCS Manager using the GUI or CLI.
•Unified Ports - Unified ports are ports on the 6200 series fabric interconnect that can be configured to carry either Ethernet or Fibre Channel traffic.
•Upstream Disjoint Layer-2 Networks - Enables you to configure Cisco UCS to communicate with upstream disjoint layer-2 networks.
•Virtual Interfaces - The number of vNICs and vHBAs configurable for a service profile is determined by adapter capability and the amount of virtual interface (VIF) namespace available on the adapter.
•VM-FEX Integration for VMware - Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) for VMware provides management integration and network communication between Cisco UCS Manager and VMware vCenter. In previous releases, this functionality was known as VN-Link in Hardware.
•VM-FEX Integration for KVM (Red Hat Linux) - Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) for VMware provides external switching for virtual machines running on a KVM Linux-based hypervisor in a Cisco UCS instance.
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Apr 15
This morning’s keynotes started off with Carl Eschenbach (on right below), EVP of Worldwide Field Operations, VMware. If you ever have the opportunity to see Carl speak, go. He’s a great presenter and very easy to follow. Carl opened up by discussion the VMware opportunity to our partners. He also made the new announcements about the upcoming updates to Partner Central, VMware’s partner portal. He discussed the upcoming changes to the partner programs and our focus on specialized partners. That is, Partners who have a specialty in one or more of four main areas, Virtualization Core, Virtualization Management, Business Continuity, or Desktop Virtualization. He introduced Brandon Sweeney (on left), VP of Channel Sales – Americas.
Brandon walked thru the new portal and how are partners can use it to find the information that they need.
Afterward, Carl introduced Chad Sakac (in center below), VP, VMware Technical Alliance, EMC. Carl also introduced Ed Bugnion (on right below), VP and CTO, Server Access Virtualization, Cisco. Read the rest of this entry »
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