Saturday, September 15, 2012

Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5.1 Support

UPDATE: On Sep 18th Cisco released 2.0(4a), which you can download from Cisco support.


For those of you that are Cisco UCS customers, word on the street is that a forthcoming firmware update 2.0(4) will be required for official vSphere 5.1 support. Cisco should have the updated firmware out by the end of September or early October. As for a Cisco UCS customized ESXi 5.1 installation media, that may be towards the end of October.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 3, 2012 at 10:32 PM

    Hi Derek, do you have any news on the customized installation media ?

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  2. AnonymousDecember 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM

    Hi Derek,

    Any update on this?

    Thanks.

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    1. NoneDecember 20, 2012 at 1:29 PM

      @anonymous: I haven't seen a custom ISO posted. But Cisco does have the interop matrix here: http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html

      If you look up the B200 M3, for ESXi 5.1, and the 1240 VIC, it says that driver version 1.5.0.8/2.1.2.22 is required. You can download that from the VMware web site. So Cisco has available drivers, and tells you which one to use, so you'd need to build your own ISO to bake them in.

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  3. tomyversattiJanuary 14, 2013 at 11:41 PM

    Update.

    I found that VMware has uploaded "ESXi-5.1.0-799733-custom-Cisco-2.1.0.3.iso".

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