02-18-2013 02:36 AM - edited 03-01-2019 05:57 AM
Chetan Parik is a customer support engineer from the Server Virtualization team at the Cisco Technical Assistance Center in Bangalore, India. He has seven years of total experience. He has worked on a wide range of Cisco data center products such as Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus 1000V. He also has five years of experience on VMware virtualization products.
The following experts were helping Chetan to answer few of the questions asked during the session: Ganesh Kumar K and Pragna Yeraballi. Ganesh and Pragna are working with Chetan in Cisco TAC and are experts in the field.
You can download the slides of the presentation in PDF format here. The related Ask The Expert sessions is available here. The Complete Recording of this live Webcast can be accessed here.
A. The firmware base verson required is 2.1. Anything proir to 2.1 is not supported
A. Yes, UCSM version should be 2.1 or later .
A. Yes, firmware auto install covers blade level firmware upgrade also .
A. When upgrading the firmware it will be non-disruptive. But note that that the server BIOS upgrade you would need a server reboot.
A. OS drivers can't be upgarded via UCS central only the UCS firmware can be upgraded.
A. Once you have the firmware downloaded to your local machine, you don't need internet connectivity. If you can launch UCS Central from your local machine you can upload the firmware from local machine to UCS Central .
A. No, we can not have that.
A. You can use any datastore. Internal or an external centralized storage.
A. UCS Central can be deployed on one VM as of now and there is no redundancy.
A. Yes, it can be done. We also support the snapshots of the UCSC VM.
A. No, ipv6 can not be used. It can be used on blades but not for the UCSM and Centra l.
A. Yes, it can be integrated with DNS master.
A. As of now we don't need any licenses for UCS central domains but in future releases we will need them; although it will be required only if you have more than 5 domains. More than 5 domains will require license in future releases.
A. As many as 100 domains can be safely registered on a UCS central.
A. No, right now there is no replication support.
A. Currently all the service providers are compiled into a package as a single VM. Maybe in future they can get seperated.
A. Not in current release, but this will be a part of future release. In current release we define policies and pools; service profiles and templates will be included in future release of UCS central.
A. UCS manager dashboard will stay since it provides functionality to manage UCS locally.
A. Such global IDs will appear as if they were configured locally on endpoints. For example if a server has UUID configured from local pool and UCS central has gone offline or you have unregistered it, that UUID will appear as if configured locally on the server.
A. As of now, we can't install on a physical server. It has to be a VM.
A. Yes, we can configure it globally from UCS Central .
A. We have tested more than 100 UCSM with UCS central. We can manage 100 safely .
A. You will have faults at the UCS Central when you have conflicting pools.
A. Yes, 100 is tested.
A. Yes, it is correct. Conflicts will not effect. UCS central will just throw a fault that there are conflciting ID's.
A. You can manage UCSM in different regions in UCS Cental.
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