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Release Notes for Cisco UCS C-Series Software, Release 1.4(5)
Overview of the Pre-Installed Cisco Flexible Flash Card
Hardware and Software Interoperability
Upgrading BIOS and CIMC Firmware
Issues Addressed in Release 1.4(5h)
Issues Addressed in Release 1.4(5e)
Issues Addressed in Release 1.4(5g)
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Release Notes for Cisco UCS C-Series Software, Release 1.4(5)
First Published Date: 11 June 2012Part Number: OL-26884-01
This document describes the new features, system requirements, open caveats and known behaviors for C- series software release 1.4(5) including Cisco Integrated Management Controller software and any related BIOS, firmware, or drivers. Use this document in conjunction with the documents listed in the "Related Documentation" section.
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We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.
Table 1 shows the online change history for this document.
Contents
This document contains the following sections:
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Introduction
This section contains the following topics:
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Overview of the Server Models
The Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server is designed for performance and density over a wide range of business workloads, from web serving to distributed databases. The enterprise-class Cisco UCS C220 M3 server extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 1RU form factor with the addition of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family. In addition, the Cisco UCS C220 M3 server offers up to two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600s, 16 DIMM slots, eight disk drives, and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) ports.
The Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server is designed for both performance and expandability over a wide range of storage-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data to collaboration. The enterprise-class Cisco UCS C240 M3 server further extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 2RU form factor with the addition of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family. The Cisco UCS C240 M3 offers up to two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family, 24 DIMM slots, 24 disk drives, and four 1 Gigabit Ethernet LOM ports.
The Cisco UCS C220 M3 and the Cisco UCS C240 M3 interfaces with Cisco UCS using the Cisco UCS P81E Virtual Interface Card (VIC). The Cisco UCS P81E VIC is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x8 10-Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS C-Series servers. The VIC is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapter that can support up to 18 PCIe standards-compliant virtual interfaces, which can be dynamically configured so that both their interface types—network interface card (NIC) or host bus adapter (HBA) and identity (MAC address and worldwide name (WWN))—are established using just-in-time provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS P81E can support network interface virtualization and Cisco® Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology.
Overview of the Pre-Installed Cisco Flexible Flash Card
The Cisco Flexible Flash card is pre-installed with three software bundles, each on one of four preconfigured virtual drives (VDs). The fourth VD allows you to install an OS or an embedded hypervisor.
The VDs are configured with the following content:
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Refer to the following documents for more information about these tasks:
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The links to these documents are in the C-Series documentation road map:
http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/c-series-doc
Hardware and Software Interoperability
For detailed information about storage switch, operating system, adapter, adapter utility, and storage array interoperability, see the Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix for your release located at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html
Transceivers Specifications
The Cisco UCS C-Series servers supports a wide variety of 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options using Cisco 10GBASE SFP+ modules.
Table 2 and Table 3 details the controllers and the supported transceivers.
Firmware Files
The C-Series software release 1.4(5) includes the following software files:
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Host Upgrade Utility
The Cisco Host Upgrade Utility (HUU) is a tool that upgrades the following firmware:
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The image file for the firmware is embedded in the ISO. The utility displays a menu that allows you to choose which firmware components to upgrade. For more information on this utility see:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/products_user_guide_list.html
Starting with this 1.4 release, separate ISO images of Host Upgrade Utility are available for different server platforms.
The ISO image is now named as ucs-<server_platform>-huu-<version_number>.iso.
The Cisco Host Upgrade Utility contains the following files:
System Requirements
The management client must meet or exceed the following minimum system requirements:
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Updating the Firmware
Use the Host Upgrade Utility to upgrade the C-Series firmware. Host Upgrade Utility can upgrade the following software components:
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All firmware should be upgraded together to ensure proper operation of your server.
Upgrading BIOS and CIMC Firmware
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Cisco provides the Cisco Host Upgrade Utility to assist you in upgrading the BIOS, CIMC, LOM, LSI storage controller, and Cisco UCS P81E Virtual Interface Card firmware to compatible levels.
The correct and compatible firmware levels for your server model are embedded in the utility ISO.
To use this utility, use the Cisco Host Upgrade Utility User Guide which includes the instructions for downloading and using the utility ISO. Select the guide from this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/products_user_guide_list.html
Supported Features
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Supported Hardware Features
The following hardware features are supported in the Release 1.4(5):
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Supported Software Features
Release 1.4(5k)
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The BIOS image with this release contains the Microcode Update which fixes the Intel VT FlexPriority Errata which is documented in the Intel Public Spec Update for Aug 2013. This errata impacts all Cisco UCS C-series servers.
Release 1.4(5)
The following software features are supported in the Release 1.4(5):
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For more information about the commands, refer to the Cisco UCS C-Series Servers Integrated Management Controller CLI Command Reference, Release 1.4.
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Software Utilities
The following standard utilities are available:
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The utilities features are as follows:
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Supported Platforms
The following platforms are supported in Release 1.4(5):
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SNMP
The supported MIB definition for release 1.4(5) can be found at the following link: ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/supportlists/ucs/ucs-C-supportlist.html
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Supported Storage Controllers
SNMP supports the following storage controllers:
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Issues Addressed
This section contains the following topics:
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Issues Addressed in Release 1.4(5h)
The C240 cooling algorithm has been modified in Release 1.4(5h) to prevent the excessive heating of some PCIe adapters at the system idle state
Issues Addressed in Release 1.4(5e)
Release 1.4(5e) addresses the issue of the server resetting while loading to the operating system with E5-2643 CPU.
Issues Addressed in Release 1.4(5g)
Release 1.4(5g) covers the following issues:
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Resolved Caveats
This section contains the following topics:
Release 1.4(5j)
The following caveats were resolved in 1.4(5j) release:
CIMC
Symptom An idle C240 system with LSI cards may show higher card temperatures.
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Symptom LSI cards on C220-M3 servers get overheated when the system is idle.
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Release 1.4(5g)
The following caveats were resolved in 1.4(5g) release:
CIMC
Symptom During system power on or reboot, HDD critical events are generated in the SEL.
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Symptom HDD critical event occurs in the CIMC SEL during the RAID rebuild in progress.
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Symptom In C240 3.5 server and C240 2.5 server with 24 HDDs, when you enable the locate HDD LED option through the Web BIOS or through the CIMC Storage Inventory page of the 9266-8i card, HDD drive fault assert critical event followed by deassert normal event in SEL is observed.
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HDDXX_STATUS: Drive Slot sensor, Drive Fault was assertedThis alert will be followed by the deassert event that is generated during the HDD LED process. (CSCtz32109)
BIOS
Symptom When the system is restarted, the BIOS POST hangs with the CATERR SEL event. The BIOS POST hangs at the "Configuring platform hardware..." screen.
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LSI
Symptom C220 M3 and C240 M3 rack servers populated with the LSI 9266-8i MegaRAID adapter may hang intermittently during BIOS POST and CATERR is reported in the SEL logs.
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Release 1.4(5b)
The following caveats were resolved in 1.4(5b) release:
CIMC
Symptom Cisco UCS C220 and UCS C240 servers displays errors when the Power Restore Policy is set to restore-state and an AC power cycle is performed with the host power is ON.
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Symptom When using two PSUs, the host does not reboot or shut down but PSU redundancy events would be seen. But, if both PSUs are faulty, the host will reboot continuously or shutdown.
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Symptom Product ID information is not displayed in Web GUI for PSUs.
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Symptom When running the KVM Viewer client on a 64 bit Linux OS, block devices such as a USB stick or floppy drive will have the read only box checked when you open the vMedia tab. Trying to uncheck the read only box will fail, and devices can only be mapped as read only.
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Symptom When using the KVM Viewer client application with a 64 bit Linux OS, mapping both floppy disk and removable disk at the same time will cause improper functioning of the application that is, the drive data is invalid and/or cannot be read. Even mapping only a single drive (floppy or removable disk) at a time can yield unexpected failures. For example, after mapping and unmapping a USB stick, click on the exit button of the vMedia tab and reopen the vMedia tab. Now, if you try map the device again the vMedia tab will crash and all the mapped devices will be unmapped.
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Symptom The KVM viewer version does not display the FCS version, that is, 2.0.0.27. This means the client machine has not downloaded the new .jar file for the KVM/vMedia client and the old client is getting executed. This issue is seen when you use KVM with the old CIMC firmware and then upgraded the CIMC. To check the KVM viewer version, invoke KVM and go to Help >About KVM Viewer. The KVM Viewer version should be 2.0.0.27 for Release 1.4(4a).
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For Windows, go to in c:\Program Files\Java\<JRE VERSION>\bin and delete the cached Cisco Virtual KVM Console application and re-launch remote presence.
For Linux, go to the Java directory, for example ./usr/java/jre1.6.0_26/bin/ControlPanel.(CSCtx88477)
Symptom KVM does not respond to keyboard input after HUU is updated.
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Symptom After you reboot or upgrade CIMC firmware through the Web GUI, you are redirected to the login page. When you try to login, the following message is displayed:
A session is already active, please logout to clear the existing session.Even after you log out and log in, this message is still displayed.
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BIOS
Symptom Patrol scrub is disabled when a channel is disabled due to a bad DIMM.
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Symptom When Option ROM run out of space, the POST error 0xA6A0 displays as a critical event.
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Symptom The system hangs when you press Control + H. This issue is observed with both the mezzanine card and the 9266 adapter and occurs intermittently but some systems display a high fail rate.
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Symptom The Web BIOS does not respond to mouse clicks.
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Symptom When the EIST option is disabled in BIOS, the system boots to OS at CPU frequency 1.2 GHz.
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Symptom Installing ESX/ESXi 4.1 U2 on C220 and C240 servers displays the following error on console:
cpu0:4096)PCI: 2804: failed for 0000:xxx:yy.zzWorkaround
Known Behaviors
This section includes the following topics:
Release 1.4(5b)
This section lists the known behavior for Release 1.4(5b).
CIMC
Symptom During high or medium Serial Over LAN (SOL) traffic, the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) LAN interfaces becomes unresponsive.
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Symptom The Boot Loader version displays extra characters after the CIMC version.
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Symptom The system hangs at preboot disk detection screen if only SAS drives are present and the system has no SKUROM.
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BIOS
Symptom The Power Saving and the Performance Modes displays the same 1.5V with 3DPC.
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Symptom The LSI SWRAID OPROM does not get dispatched and a A6A0 warning is displayed in the SEL.
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Symptom PCI bus and device number for some of the devices change after upgrading the C220 and C240 servers from 1.4(4c) to later software releases.
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Symptom vMedia disconnects when you try to boot CentOS-6.1 LiveCD.
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Symptom All the onboard LOM port OPROMMs do not get executed during the booting process in C240 server models.
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Symptom Pressing the Esc key while the LOM option ROM is getting executed causes the rest of the option ROMs to be skipped.
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Symptom OVM3.0 can not discover iSCSI target during installation.
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Release 1.4(4a)
This section lists the known behavior for Release 1.4(4a).
CIMC
Symptom When KVM is launched, a "Login Failed" error displays and KVM closes.
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Symptom The Network mode cannot be set to cisco_card mode even though the option is available.
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Symptom In Power Restore Policy, a delay value displays when the delay type is set to random.
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Symptom When you create a image of file or folder size bigger than 4 GB using vMedia Create image feature, the following message displays:
Create Image Failed. An error occurred in the Image library.Workaround
Symptom If you try to use vMedia to map both an .img file and a physical USB stick (pen/thumb drive) simultaneously, the following message (or a similar one) displays:
Either Virtual media is detached or virtual media redirection for the selected virtual disk drive is already is in use by another userWorkaround
Symptom KVM and vMedia do not work with mismatched IE and JRE executables.
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Symptom The mouse does not work or track in the LSI Web BIOS tool.
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Symptom BIOS update fails if KVM is launched while BIOS is uploading.
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Symptom When you launch KVM in IE, the following message displays:
Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found.Workaround
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Symptom If you disable both SSH and HTTP, connectivity to CIMC is lost.
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Symptom CIMC Web GUI does not display after the certificate import process and the browser displays the following message:
Error :Invalid Server CertificateA request failed because the server's certificate was invalid.Workaround
Symptom In IE, when network mode is changed to cisco_card mode, a "Unable to parse xml" message displays.
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Symptom The Power Saving and Performance modes displays the same 1.5V with 3DPC.
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Symptom While upgrading from the beta version to the FCS version, the system gets stuck at different points in the POST screen, usually at the initial video screens, before the options can be executed.
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Open Caveats
This section includes the following topics:
Release 1.4(5g)
This section lists the open caveats in Release 1.4(5g)
CIMC
Symptom The HDD faults are not logged in the CIMC SEL for UCSC-C240-M3S.
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Symptom When you run the update-all command immediately after the BIOS update, the chassis component firmware update process fails.
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Symptom If the update-all command, to update the chassis components firmware, is run when the CIMC or the BIOS update is already in progress, the following messsage appears:
Can't run Firmware update, other Software Update runningThis is an expected behavior but if the update-all command is run again, the following incorrect message is displayed:
Firmware update in progressIf you now run the show command, another incorrect message is displayed:
Firmware update in progress, retry to get latest statusWorkaround
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Release 1.4(5b)
This section lists the open caveats in Release 1.4(5b):
CIMC
Symptom When KVM is launched, a "Connection failed" error displays and the KVM window does not open.
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Symptom Sometimes the Update-all command returns inconsistent messages causing the chassis components firmware to fail.
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Server/chassis/firmware# show detail
Server/chassis/firmware# update-all
If any errors or failures are encountered, reboot the CIMC and retry the update-all command. (CSCua41121)
Symptom CIMC recognizes only the SuperCap and all other information like the charge and charging state is not available.
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Symptom The CIMC Web GUI displays the battery status as "unknown" when LSI 9265CV-8i with supercap battery is used.
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Symptom The duration counter fails to start after the images are mapped over vMedia.
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Symptom The HDD presence cannot be viewed through SNMP.
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Symptom CIMC Web GUI does not reflect the "Reconstruction" virtual disk state after expanding the virtual disk.
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Symptom When 200GB or 300GB INTEL SSD is installed, the Description and the PID fields display UNKNOWN.
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Symptom The PID displays UNKNOWN for Cisco UCSC RAID SAS 2008M-8i Mezzanine card (RAID 0,1,10).
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Symptom The PID field displays UNKNOWN for Seagate ST32000444SS or ST3300656SS or ST31000640SS.
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Symptom The PID field displays UNKNOWN for Broadcom 57712-T 10 Gbps 2 port NIC.
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Symptom The PID field displays UNKNOWN for Emulex OCe11102-FX or Qlogic QLE8242-CU.
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Symptom The CPU PID field displays UNKNOWN for UCS-CPU-E5-2660.
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Symptom The SEL event is not logged in the OS Watchdog timer expiration.
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Symptom PID shows wrong value for MegaRAID 9266CV-8i w/FTM + LSI CacheVault.
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Symptom Broadcom 5709 Dual Port 10/100/1Gb NIC w/TOE iSCSI shows wrong PID.
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Symptom For a 450W power supply, the PXUx_VOUT reading shows 1V when the actual reading is about 11V.
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LSI
Symptom C220 M3 and C240 M3 rack servers populated with the LSI 9266-8i MegaRAID adapter may hang intermittently during BIOS POST and CATERR is reported in the SEL logs.
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Symptom Repeated and multiple drive removal and insertion may result in the LSI SWRAID OPROM getting into an inconsistent state and not being able to detect the plugged in or removed drives. Rebooting the system does not fix this issue and the drive states could change from Online to Ready resulting in loss of data.
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Symptom The Storage Controller name in Device Manager, under Windows 2008 R2 SP1 for C240 server, displays the Server model number as C220 instead of C240.
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Symptom The 2008-8i MEZZ Card Serial number and FRU information is missing in the LSI Web BIOS and the LSI Host Application such as MSM and MegaCli.
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Symptom When I/O is running on two or more hard disks part of a RAID Array, the Activity LED is seen blinking green on the hard disks on which the I/O is running and is part of the RAID array and also on the adjacent hard disk which is not part of the RAID group.
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Symptom The drive rebuild process does not complete if the system is being rebooted during the rebuild operation.
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Symptom The system hangs in the pre-boot drive detection screen and displays the "Missing Drive" message.
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Symptom The server hangs during BIOS POST when scanning LSI devices.
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BIOS
Symptom The USB Floppy Disk Drive (FDD) does not boot when it is mounted on the KVM console.
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Symptom When different SKU of Sandybridge, like E5-2640, E5-2660 are populated on the system, the system does not switch on.
Workaround
Symptom When BIOS is upgraded from FCS BIOS version 1-4-4c-0 to MR4 BIOS, the Cisco virtual FDD/HDD 1.22 boot option does not appear in the setup page during the first booting session.
Workaround
Symptom Continuous beep sound is heard when the system is switched.
Workaround
Symptom BIOS setup changes does not get reflected in the CIMC.
Workaround
Release 1.4(4a)
This section lists the open caveats for Release 1.4(4a):
CIMC
Symptom The LED sensor color is red or amber or blue (or any supported color) even though the LED state is set to OFF.
Workaround
Symptom SNMPv1 traps are sent when SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 traps are enabled.
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Symptom The AES encryption field does not show the encryption level (128, 256, and so on) on the Web GUI and CLI.
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Symptom The SNMPv3 traps are not received in the Net-SNMP receiver.
Workaround
Symptom The power supply serial number is unavailable in the SNMP inventory because the Power Management Bus (PMBus) has not provided the power information.
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Symptom The SNMPv3 walk, with AES encryption enabled, produces a "Decryption Error" when an SNMPv3 trap is triggered by an event. An "authentication failure" error is also encountered on triggering an event with the secure hash algorithm (SHA) authentication. The SHA trap error is encountered with both "authpriv" and "authnopriv" settings. The issue is observed till the master agent is restarted by clicking Save All in the CIMC Web UI SNMP configuration page.
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Symptom The KVM screen displays a blank screen.
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Symptom Printing from Web GUI does work from Internet Exploder, but not Firefox.
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Symptom When the LSI MegaRAID controller is used with the Cisco Flex Flash, SNMP_Inv_HDD:Disk_IDD N and RN shows 0,0,0 instead of 0,1,2 sequence.
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Symptom When the LSI MegaRAID controller is used in conjunction with Cisco Flex Flash card, the SNMP_Inv_HDD:DiskPresence displays missing(11) instead of equipped(10).
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Symptom When mapping a removal media using Mac Client, the USB device only supports Read-Only mode.
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Symptom After upgrading MegaRAID firmware, sometimes the storage information in the CIMC Web GUI and CLI will be empty.
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Symptom Occasionally, when BIOS starts, the following message is displayed:
Error on Getting CIMC IP/MAC Address.Workaround
Symptom Occasionally when CIMC boots, the HTTP Web UI will not start.
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BIOS
Symptom OS installation hangs when installing from Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) environment.
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Symptom When a bad DIMM (which fails memory initialization) is present in one of the DIMM slots, BIOS may map out the other DIMMs in the same channel as the bad DIMM.
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Symptom When Broadcom 5709 Gigabit Ethernet adapter is plugged into one of the PCIE slots, the server gets stuck at the BIOS post screen during the booting process.
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LOM
Symptom When the secondary iSCSI port is configured, booting from the iSCSI target results in kernel panic.
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LSI
Symptom When LSI controller is downgraded, you may view the information, for example, virtual drive, firmware, of the previous version of the LSI controller in the CIMC Web GUI and CLI.
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Misc
Symptom PSU Failure events are seen after AC Power cycling the system.
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VMWare
Symptom Booting from SAN fails with UCS P81E on ESXi 4.1U2 and ESXi 5.0 and a fatal error is seen during installation.
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Related Documentation
For configuration information for this release, please refer to the following:
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The following related documentation is available for the Cisco Unified Computing System:
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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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