Cisco has now released their long anticipated first patch release of the 2.1 firmware, 2.1(1b). Version 2.1, released in November of 2012, adds a number of great new features including the ability to rename service profiles. Since 2.1 added so many new features, there are bound to be some bugs/issues. So after several months of 2.1 in the field, you may now want to strongly consider jumping on 2.1(1b).
2.1(1b) adds a few new features, most notable in my book as the ability to run memory at 1333MHz vice 1066MHz in the B200 M3/C240M3 servers when all three DIMM slots are populated with memory. That's great for a VDI blade, where you may fully populate it with 384GB using 16GB DIMMs.
Release 2.1(1b) adds support for the following:
•Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade server configurations with a single CPU
This patch release provides support for UCS B200 M3 blade server configurations with a single CPU, in addition to the previously supported dual CPU configurations.
New Software Features in Release 2.1(1b) adds support for the following:
•BIOS Policy Settings—Provides the ability to select refresh interval rate for internal memory.
•Memory Speed—Enables 1333 MHz memory speed for 8GB/16GB 1600-MHz RDIMMs populated with 3 DIMMs Per Channel/1.5v on the Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade server and Cisco UCS C240 M3 rack server.
•Call Home—Enables you to configure call home for CMOS battery voltage low alert.
There's also a nice, relatively short, list of resolved caveats. I won't post all of those, but you can check out the full release notes here.
On March 6, 2013 Cisco also released v2.1.1d of the UCS drivers ISO.
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