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Cisco UCS Director Release Notes, Release 4.1

Contents

Introduction

System Requirements

Supported Browser Versions

New and Changed Information

New Features in Release 4.1

New Scalability Feature

New API/SDK Features

New Performance Monitoring Feature for VMware Accounts

New Compute Features

New Networking Features

New Storage Features

New Virtualization Features

New Converged Infrastructure Features

New Orchestration Features and Enhancements

New Application Container Features

New Features in Release 4.1, Patch 4.1.0.1

New Server-Based Licensing

New Features in Release 4.1, Patch 4.1.0.2

Support for Associating VNX LUN as Datastore on Powerpath-enabled Hosts

Support for Windows based Solution Enabler with VMAX

Installation Notes

Caveats

Open Caveats

Resolved Caveats—Patch Release 4.1.0.1

Resolved Caveats—Patch Release 4.1.0.2

Workflow Task Input/Output Changes

Related Documentation

Cisco UCS Director Documentation Roadmap

Cisco UCS Documentation Roadmaps

Documentation Feedback

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request


Cisco UCS Director Release Notes, Release 4.1


First Published: December 16, 2013
Last Updated: February 7, 2014
Part Number: OL-30266-01 E0

This document describes the features, caveats, and limitations for Cisco UCS Director software. Use this document in combination with documents listed in Related Documentation.


Note Release notes are sometimes updated with new information about restrictions and caveats. See the following website for the most recent version of the Cisco UCS Director Release Notes, Release 4.1:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps13050/tsd_products_support_general_information.html


Table 1 shows the online change history for this document.

Table 1 Online History Change 

Part Number
Revision
Date
Description

OL-30266-01

A0

December 16, 2013

Created release notes for Release 4.1.

 

B0

December 19, 2013

Added new open caveats: CSCum16900, CSCum16890, and CSCum16842.

Updated support for storage devices and description of orchestration enhancements.

 

C0

December 20, 2013

Added one new caveat: CSCum17896

Updated description and/or workaround for the following caveats: CSCui66016 and CSCul24274

 

D0

January 21, 2014

Resolved caveats for patch release 4.1.0.1: CSCul29609, CSCum11020, CSCum13683, CSCum16842,CSCum44683, CSCum58108,and CSCum58766.

 

E0

February 7, 2014

Updated for patch release 4.1.0.2.


Contents

This document includes the following sections:

Introduction

System Requirements

New and Changed Information

Installation Notes

Caveats

Workflow Task Input/Output Changes

Related Documentation

Documentation Feedback

Introduction

Cisco UCS Director delivers unified, highly secure management for the industry's leading converged infrastructure solutions, which are based on the Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus platforms.

Cisco UCS Director extends the unification of computing and network layers through Cisco UCS to provide data center administrators with comprehensive visibility and management capability. It supports NetApp FlexPod and ExpressPOD, EMC VSPEX, and Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Vblock systems, based on the Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus platforms.

Cisco UCS Director was formerly known as Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller and as Cisco Cloupia.

System Requirements

Table 2 lists the system requirements for Cisco UCS Director Release 4.1.

Table 2 System Requirements

vSphere Minimum System Requirements
Component
Requirement

VMware

ESX or ESXi 4.x or 5.x

vCPU

4

Memory

Minimum = 4GB
High Loads and Scalability = 8 GB

Hard disk

100 GB

 
Hyper-V Minimum System Requirements

Hyper-V 2.0 or 3.0

Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, or Windows 2012 R2

vCPU

4

Memory

Minimum = 4GB
High Loads and Scalability = 8 GB

Hard disk

100 GB


Supported Browser Versions

Cisco UCS Director supports the following browsers:

Internet Explorer 8 or higher

Google Chrome 4.1 or higher

Firefox 3.5 or higher

Safari 4.0 or higher (for Apple Mac or Microsoft Windows)

Browsers require the Adobe Flash Player 11 plug-in.

New and Changed Information

This section includes the following topics:

New Features in Release 4.1

New Features in Release 4.1, Patch 4.1.0.1

New Features in Release 4.1, Patch 4.1.0.2

New Features in Release 4.1

The following features are available in Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1:

New Scalability Feature

New API/SDK Features

New Performance Monitoring Feature for VMware Accounts

New Compute Features

New Networking Features

New Storage Features

New Virtualization Features

New Converged Infrastructure Features

New Orchestration Features and Enhancements

New Application Container Features

New Scalability Feature

For Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, the distributed architecture of a multi-node setup enables you to scale Cisco UCS Director to support a larger number of virtual machines (VMs) than is supported by a single installation of Cisco UCS Director. The multi-node setup is supported for Cisco UCS Director on 64-bit operating systems only.

This setup includes the following nodes:

One primary node that acts as the master controller.

One or more service nodes that act as stateless execution engines.

One monitoring database that contains data for users, groups, VMs, virtual data centers, and configuration.

One inventory database that contains monitoring and inventory data.

The multi-node setup improves scalability by offloading the processing of system tasks, such as inventory data collection, from the primary node to one or more service nodes. You can assign certain system tasks to one or more service nodes. The number of nodes determines how the processing of system tasks is scaled.

You can enable and disable system tasks or assign service node pools to system tasks for load balancing.

New API/SDK Features

Cisco UCS Director REST API—The northbound REST (Representational State Transfer) API enables you to perform operations on Cisco UCS Director resources and to integrate those operations into applications so that they can provide API-supported functionality and features. This API includes the following:

Protocols—HTTP and HTTPS

Data format—Combination of JSON and XML

Operations—Create, read, update, and delete for most operations in Cisco UCS Director

SDK—Java SDK

Cisco UCS Director Open Automation API—The southbound Open Automation API is part of a development platform architecture that includes the Cisco UCS Director Platform Runtime, a set of modules, and an SDK. This API enables you to develop and deploy a module that can be executed on Cisco UCS Director platform runtime, adding and integrating that functionality into Cisco UCS Director, including the following:

Adding new connectors for devices

Adding new workflow tasks

Creating new tabular reports

Creating new forms

Creating new scheduled tasks

Creating new inventory collection tasks

New Performance Monitoring Feature for VMware Accounts

For VMware virtual accounts, Cisco UCS Director no longer monitors all parameters collected from VMware vCenter by default.

A new data collection policy now handles monitoring of all VMware vCenter parameters. By default, the data collection policy is only configured to monitor the following parameters:

You can also enable one or more of the following parameters if you want to monitor them:

For information about which parameters are enabled by default, and which reports are populated by which parameters, see the Cisco UCS Director Administration Guide, Release 4.1.

New Compute Features

Cisco UCS Central, Release1.1—Support includes the following features:

Creation of pools and policies

Assignment of domains to pods

Register and unregister of Cisco UCS Manager accounts

Global and local policies, service profiles, and service profile templates

Cisco UCS Manager, Release 2.1(3a)—Support includes the following features:

Local disk configuration policies

Maintenance policies

Time zones

Assignment of blade servers and server pools to groups

Association of service profile templates to server pools

New workflow tasks for VLANs, server pools, service profiles, and service profile templates

C-Series Cisco Integrated Management Controller, Release 1.5—Support includes the following features:

Enhanced inventory collection

New reports for storage adapter, VIC adapter, and network adapter

Launch of KVM console from Cisco UCS Director

Baremetal provisioning with local boot and SAN boot

New Networking Features

Networking Devices

Table 3 lists the network devices for which support has been added in Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1.

Table 3 Updated Network Device Support

Device
Supported Models
Supported Software

Cisco Nexus 1100 Series Cloud Services Platform

Nexus 1110

NX-OS Software Release 4.2(1)

Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches

Nexus 6001

Nexus 6004

NX-OS Software Release 6.0(2)

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Switches

Nexus 9508

NX-OS Software Release 6.1(2)

Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multiservice Switches

MDS 9250i

NX-OS Software Release 6.2(3)


Networking Software Features

Cisco Nexus 1000V—Support includes the following features:

HA inventory

VXLAN Gateway

Cisco Nexus Virtual Security Gateway (VSG)—Support for VSG has been added through application containers. See New Application Container Features.

Cisco Prime Network Services Controller (PNSC)—Support includes the following features:

PNSC accounts

Inventory collection and inventory reports

Actions and workflow tasks

SAN Zones—Support includes the following features:

A separate task to create and delete a SAN zone

A separate task to add and remove SAN zone members

A new task to add and remove SAN zoneset members

Add and remove a device alias

The ability to provide device alias and zoneset names

SSH Tasks—Support includes the following features:

Error scenarios

Returning command output

New Storage Features

Storage Devices

Table 4 lists the storage devices for which support has been added in Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1.

Table 4 Updated Storage Device Support

Device
Supported Models
Supported Software

EMC VNX

VNX 7600

VNX 8000

MCx OS, v8.1.0 and higher


Storage Software Features

EMC VNX—Support includes the following features:

CIFS Server

CIFS Share

File System Quota

SnapView

EMC VMAX—Support includes the following features:

Fast policy operations, including storage group operations for those policies

Storage tier operations, including disk group and thin pool operations for a storage tier

Fast Controller including status, parameters and settings, and enabling and disabling

Data Dev operations

NetApp—Support is available for OnTap 8.2 and Clustered OnTap. This support includes the following features:

Create Datastore using VSC with select vserver name and vfiler name inputs

Create ClusterFlexibleVolume with new, mandatory input of flexcache origin volume name for type DC

Delete Export policy and rule

Binding error improvements for associate LUN as datastore.

NetApp CMODE—Support includes the following features:

Create, read, update, and delete operations on aggregates, CIFS servers, shares, ACLs, snapshot policies, and schedules

Restoring files

Licensing

iSCSI initiators

Quotas on volumes and Qtrees

FCP

iGroups

Cloning LUNs

Configuring DNS, NFS, LIF, and cluster nodes

Provisioning VMs through VSC CMODE storage

SIS

SnapMirror

vServer peering and cluster peering.

New Virtualization Features

VMware vSphere Enhancements

VMware vSphere Version—Support is available for VMware vSphere 5.5.

Data Store Monitoring Report Enhancements—Support includes the following features:

Disk latency

I/O throughput and IOPs

Total, used, and overprovisioned capacity

Overcommitment ratio

VMs

vmdk disk latency report

Virtual Data Centers (VDCs)—The ability to apply target VDC policies when moving a VM across VDCs.

VMware Policy Enhancements—Support includes the following features:

VDC System Policy now includes a time zone options list and support for all regions

VDC Storage policy for VMware now includes a thin provisioning option (Flexibility)

A new IP Pool policy for defining static IP addresses

A new flexible VDC network policy that allows for a different set of VM network requirements

VMware Tasks and Actions Enhancements—Support includes the following features:

Create a VMKernel port group on a standard VMware vSwitch

Remove an ESXi host from a Distributed vSwitch

VM Cloning task and Guest OS Customization

VM Select task

Ability to hot add more CPU and Memory to VMs.

Microsoft Hyper-V Enhancements

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Version—Support is available for SCVMM 2012 R2.

Software Features—Support includes the following features:

Orchestration capabilities extended to attached external storage in SCVMM (SMB/LUN<SMI-S proxy>) including allocation and configuration for SCVMM 2012SP1 and SCVMM 2012R2 base clusters/hosts

Orchestration capabilities extended to VLAN base networking model with respect to SCVMM2012 SP1 and SCVMM 2012 R2

Host management tasks

VMM version support extended to SCVMM 2012 R2 in Inventory/Report/Provision/Configuration

VM access—Web & RDP

REST API Support

Covered the Customer Onboarding workflow gaps (limited to VLAN base Network model only)

New Converged Infrastructure Features

Vblock 700 Series

EMC-based VSPEX 125 and 250

New Orchestration Features and Enhancements

Custom Tasks—You can use custom tasks to create new workflow tasks with well-defined inputs and outputs. In Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, the logic for these tasks are implemented through Cloupia script, which includes JavaScript and Cisco UCS Director libraries.

Custom tasks can be exported from one Cisco UCS Director deployment and imported into another. In Cisco UCS Director, they are managed in the same location as other orchestration tasks and workflows.

After you have created a custom task, there is no inherent difference between that custom task and the tasks that are provided with Cisco UCS Director.

Orchestration Enhancements—The enhancements to orchestration in Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, include the following:

All users with administrator privileges can view and edit workflow inputs and outputs in service requests.

Workflow user inputs can be configured as mandatory or optional.

Workflow user inputs can be changed and resubmitted for a failed or cancelled service Request. Task inputs cannot be modified.

When tasks are added or modified, workflow inputs can be created or cross-launched.

New Application Container Features

Cisco Nexus Virtual Security Gateway (VSG)—Support has been added to integrate VSG into application containers, including the following:

Firewall policies, including zones, ACLs, and a VSG details template

Virtual infrastructure policies, including VSG containers and an external gateway

VSG application container

New Features in Release 4.1, Patch 4.1.0.1

The following features are available in Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, Patch 4.1.0.1:

New Server-Based Licensing

New Server-Based Licensing

Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, Patch 4.1.0.1 includes server-based licensing, and you can order server-based PIDs.

Details:

Customers are entitled to storage and network licenses with each physical server license (1:1 for Physical and 1:1/2 for Bare Metal).

For each server quantity purchased, customers will be entitled to 50 VMs, one network and one storage.

Existing storage, network, and other licenses will be converted to server licenses upon upgrade to Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, Patch 4.1.0.1.

New Features in Release 4.1, Patch 4.1.0.2

The following features are available in Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, Patch 4.1.0.2:

Support for Associating VNX LUN as Datastore on Powerpath-enabled Hosts

Support for Windows based Solution Enabler with VMAX

Support for Associating VNX LUN as Datastore on Powerpath-enabled Hosts

Cisco UCS Director now allows you to associate a VNX LUN as a data store on Powerpath-enabled hosts.

Support for Windows based Solution Enabler with VMAX

To communicate with VMAX, Cisco UCS Director now supports a Windows-hosted application to perform the installation of the EMC Solution Enabler.

Installation Notes

Cisco UCS Director is a 64-bit appliance that uses the standard VHD template, and can be hosted on VMware vSphere or vCenter and Microsoft Hyper-V Manager.

For installation instructions, see the following guides:

Cisco UCS Director Installation and Upgrade on Microsoft Hyper-V Manager, Release 4.1

Cisco UCS Director Installation and Upgrade on VMware vSphere, Release 4.1

The installation guides are available on Cisco.com here: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps13050/prod_installation_guides_list.html

Caveats

This section includes the following topics:

Open Caveats

Resolved Caveats—Patch Release 4.1.0.1

Resolved Caveats—Patch Release 4.1.0.2


Note Release note information is sometimes updated after the product Release Notes document is published. Use the Cisco Bug Search Tool to see the most up-to-date release note information for any caveat listed in this document.


Open Caveats

Table 5 lists the caveats that are open in Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1.

Table 5 Open Caveats in Release 4.1

Defect ID
Symptom
Workaround

CSCul21096

Inserts, reads, updates and deletes on the Cisco UCS Director databases causes disk fragmentation.

Run an OPTIMIZE command on the VM. For more information, see the Cisco UCS Director installation guides for Release 4.1.

CSCul59462

After an upgrade from Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.0 to Release 4.1, the port group is not mapped in network policies that were edited or updated in Release 4.0.

In Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, do the following:

1. Open the network policy.

2. Map the appropriate port groups.

3. Save the network policy.

CSCul51752

After upgrading to Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, the new data collection policy for VMware results in some parameters not being monitored and some graphs being empty

This is by design. The policy controls which parameters are monitored. You must enable the parameters that you want to monitor.

For more information, see Cisco UCS Director Administration Guide, Release 4.1.

CSCug91645

While trying to add VM disks to 4 SCSI adapters, intermittently observed that the VM disk could not be added. The following exception was seen during the attempt to add the VM disk:

Exception trace **********************

java.lang.Exception: Disk could not be added for Win-XP-move

All connectivity from the server to PowerShell Agent and from the PowerShell Agent to the Microsoft HyperV hypervisor was fine.

Ensure that the VM is in an SCVMM-supported state before you add the VM disks. This issue happens intermittently if the VM is not in a state that supports the operation. This error is from SCVMM.

CSCui12211

Rollback (undo) is not available for the following Hyper-V orchestration tasks:

Mount iSCSI LUN

Bringing Disk online and formatting

Create VM placement path

Manually undo the changes made through those tasks.

CSCui27399

When you add a vFiler or set up a vFiler with the action buttons available on the vFilers tab, there is no option to specify the vFiler root password.

To specify a root password for an existing vFiler, use the setup option available in the one of the following workflows to create vFilers:

Create vFiler using ONTAP workflow

Create vFiler setup workflow

CSCui19131

The memory size is displayed differently for the fabric interconnect and Cisco UCS Manager.

In the Fabric Interconnects report, the available memory size displays in MB, but in Cisco UCS manager, the available memory size displays in GB. In addition, if the available memory is 13.927 GB, it should show the MB value as 14261.248 but instead displays the wrong value.

Use Cisco UCS Manager to obtain the available memory size for a fabric interconnect.

CSCui58095

When the a NetApp volume is offline and you apply a Dedupe On or Dedupe Off action, The storage controller intermittently generates a misleading error message stating that the volume does not exist even though the volume is only in the offline state.

There is no known workaround for this issue.

CSCui66016

Automation of baremetal provisioning fails with an HP custom image (iLO4) because the host shuts down immediately after ESXi deployment.

Do the following:

1. Manually power on the host.

2. Execute the task to change the boot order to local disk.

3. Execute the Register Host to vCenter task.

CSCul24274

Memory/CPU hot add feature fails on VMware VMs,when the Hot add property is not enabled on the VM.

Enable _the property (HOT add) on the VM using the VMware vCenter client.

CSCul26798

For NFS datastore, the Read IOP, Write IOP, and throughput reports are empty in Cisco UCS Director although values are present when seen in VMware vCenter for the same datastore.

There is no known workaround for this issue as the API for NFS datastores does not return any data.

CSCul34832

The REST API Read option for tasks in a VMAX device does not work.

There is no known workaround for this issue.

CSCul55929

In Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, the term Data Center was replaced with Pod. However, Cisco UCS Director still displays Data Center instead of Pod in some areas.

There is no known workaround for this issue.

CSCul57170

Some errors in a workflow are not identified during workflow validation, such as non-existent or missing values. However, when you execute the workflow, the workflow fails and the error message identifies the incorrect or missing values.

After the workflow fails to execute, update the workflow with the correct values and re-execute the workflow.

CSCul91019

The previous tasks Add Cluster Volume NFS Export and Remove Cluster Volume NFS Export no longer work. These tasks have been replaced with Mount Cluster Volume and Unmount Cluster Volume.

Use the following new tasks instead:

Mount Cluster Volume

Unmount Cluster Volume

CSCum05246

No rollback (undo) is available for reserved IP address when the Resource Allocation task is executed.

Manually undo the IP reservations through one of the following:

From the Reservations tab

Through Global IP Pool usage

CSCum06481

After an upgrade to Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1, some workflow tasks result in binding errors.

Remap the bindings for those workflow tasks.

For more information, see Workflow Task Input/Output Changes.

CSCum01980

When a VM is provisioned after the VM metering task is completed in the second half of an hour, the charge for the VM does not begin until the following hour.

In this scenario, the VM cost is not charged for the hour in which it is provisioned.

There is no known workaround for this issue.

CSCum09723

After a Windows VM is cloned, the password reset fails.

Use the "Guest Setup" task to reset the password.

CSCum06612

When the CIMC power on / off, boot order change tasks are executed, the MAC address is displayed as an output attribute. However, only the vNIC MAC address is displayed.

The MAC address output is needed for the PXE setup task for baremetal provisioning.

Add the MAC address manually for the PXE setup task.

CSCze09420

Cisco UCS and CIMC events and faults fail to generate intermittently.

There is no known workaround for this issue.

CSCum07544

File systems and export paths are not filtered and displayed in the Mover drill-down according to the mover that is selected.

In addition, the mover information is not displayed in the file system and export paths to show the mover to which they belong.

There is no known workaround for this issue.

CSCum10733

The Export Path action fails to perform under any mover except "Mover-2". For any other mover, the task fails with an invalid export path error.

Use the Create Export path task. This creates an export path under all active movers.

CSCum01236

For the Create Initiator Group task, if you select FCP type and do not create an initiator name, the task fails.

Provide an initiator name in the Create Initiator Group task.

CSCul40043

If multiple Symmetric devices are managed under one Solution Enabler, Cisco UCS Director displays only the first device.

Manage only one Symmetric device per Solution Enabler.

CSCum16900

If you give the zone name as an admin input for the Generic Configure SAN Zoning workflow task, the task fails.

Manually enter the zone name.

CSCum16890

When you use the Generic Configure SAN Zoning task to create a new zoneset, Cisco UCS Director creates the zoneset with the first active zoneset name.

There is no known workaround for this issue.

CSCum16842

Create VDC task succeeds but cloning of the network policy fails.

Create or update the network Policy in Cisco UCS Director from Policies > Network > VMWare Network Policies.

CSCum17896

Datadev creation fails for Cisco UCS Director on Microsoft Hyper-v due to the length of time it takes to perform the task and the slowness of the setup.

There is no known workaround for this issue.

CSCum92118

Patch upgrade fails if NFS mount is configured for Storage Appliance.

Disable any Appliance Storage that is used to configure external storage (NFS mount) before you apply the patch.


Resolved Caveats—Patch Release 4.1.0.1

Table 6 lists the caveats that are resolved in Cisco UCS Director, Patch Release 4.1.0.1.

Table 6 Resolved Caveats in Cisco UCS Director, Patch Release 4.1.0.1 

Defect ID
Description

CSCul29609

The format of the name in the Name field is name_${sr_id}. The Service Request ID is used to provide a unique name.

CSCum11020

Task "Create VNX Block Storage Pool", displaying RAID Type "unknown" in UCSD for Mixed Type

CSCum13683

Currently, UCSD can add only 7mode filers (FAS2220, FAS2240) to Express pod. Fixed the capability to add cmode filers as well.

CSCum16842

When execute the task "Create VDC", it fails to clone NICs from Network Policy.

CSCum44683

Amazon account connectivity is not supporting proxy settings for DMZ.

CSCum58108

Task/Action:"Create VNX LUN" fails to create LUN with a size greater than 1023 GB.

CSCum 58766

User input reordering is not getting persisted for new workflows, existing workflows and imported workflows.


Resolved Caveats—Patch Release 4.1.0.2

Table 7 lists the caveats that are resolved in Cisco UCS Director, Patch Release 4.1.0.2.

Table 7 Resolved Caveats in Cisco UCS Director, Patch Release 4.1.0.2 

Defect ID
Description

CSCum20951

Inframgr is unable to startup (expecting 1 object for modifySingleObject).

CSCum69964

Workflow user input password type not masked after cloning workflow.

CSCum72928

Shell Admin: option 25 is not working.

CSCum81199

Application Container: Not all VMs are showing up in Cisco UCS Director.

CSCum81793

Netapp 8.1.4 and 8.2.x 7-Mode: Clone LUN action gives an error.

CSCum96714

Cloudsense report: Customer billing report not working as expected.

CSCum37748

Application Container output is incorrect when powered on by end-users.

CSCum92411

To make 'subnet mask' as optional input in the Configure VLAN interface task.

CSCum97172

Licensing: Remove network and storage counts for server.

CSCug25640

Resize Windows 2008 Datacenter VM CPU & Memory.


Workflow Task Input/Output Changes

Table 8 displays the workflow task input/output changes found in Cisco UCS Director, Release 4.1.

Table 8 Input/Output Changes to Workflow Task

Scenario
Workflow Task
Input/Output Changes

UCS

Cisco UCS Task:

Add vNIC to UCS Service Profile

Binding error issue reported for this task after upgrade. (CSCum08951)

Workaround: Delete the task and re-add it to the workflow.

UCS

Cisco UCS Task:

Add VLAN to Service Profile

Input/output mapping changes.

New Entity vNIC can cause workflow to fail.

Workaround: Add the required input value-based selection for the vNIC.

UCS

Cisco UCS Task:

Rename UCS Service Profile

Additional inputs have been added to this task.

Workaround: Add the required input value-based selection.

UCS

Cisco UCS Task:

Add vNIC to Service Profile

Additional output, as follows: "OUTPUT_MAC_POOL_IDENTITY MACPOOL IDENTITY"

UCS

Cisco UCS Task:

Modify UCS VLAN/VLAN Group Org Permissions

Input/output mapping changes.

The mapped user input for the organization of ucsOrganizationIdentity has been changed to ucsMultiOrganizationIdentity to support the multiselect functionality.

This change enables you to select multiple organizations at one time.

UCS

Cisco UCS Task:

Create UCS Boot Policy

Mouseover help text and the task library text has been updated for the following inputs:

Add CD ROM in boot order

Add Floppy Disk in boot order

Add Local Disk in boot order

Add Primary LAN Boot in boot order

Add Primary SAN Boot in boot order

UCS

CIMC Tasks:

Unconfigure Rack Server

Input/Output changes

The "cimc_server" input/output type has changed to "cimcServerIdentity".

Workaround: Update workflows with the new "cimcServerIdentity" input/output type.

UCS

CIMC Task:

Select CIMC Boot Device

Task output has been updated with the following for each Slot 1 and 2:

OUTPUT_CIMC_SERVER_SLOT_<>_MAC_ADDRESS

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_1_VLAN

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_1_WWPN

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_2_VLAN

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_2_WWPN

UCS

CIMC Tasks:

Power On/Off CIMC Server

The "cimc_server" input/output type has changed to "cimcServerIdentity".

Workaround: Update workflows with the new "cimcServerIdentity" input/output type.

Task output updated with following for each Slot 1 and 2.

OUTPUT_CIMC_SERVER_SLOT_<>_MAC_ADDRESS

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_1_VLAN

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_1_WWPN

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_2_VLAN

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_2_WWPN

UCS

CIMC Tasks:

Configure Rack Server

The "cimc_server" input/output type has changed to "cimcServerIdentity".

Workaround: Update workflows with the new "cimcServerIdentity" input/output type.

Task output updated with following for each Slot 1 and 2.

OUTPUT_CIMC_SERVER_SLOT_<>_MAC_ADDRESS

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_1_VLAN

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_1_WWPN

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_2_VLAN

OUTPUT_RACK_SP_SLOT_<>_VHBA_2_WWPN

Networking

Create VFC Interface

After upgrade, only the device selection was changed.

Workaround: after reconfigure, the workflow can be successfully executed.

NetApp

Create Datastore using VSC - As Select

Upgrade: C-Mode binding errors

Create Datastore using VSC - As Select vserver name and vfiler name inputs are new for this release.

Workaround: Add the required input value-based selection.

NetApp

Create ClusterFlexibleVolume

Upgrade: C-Mode binding errors

Create ClusterFlexibleVolume- As flexcache origin volume name for type DC is a new input. This input is mandatory for volume type DC.

Workaround: Change the volume type from DC to RW and resubmit the task.

However, if LUNS and QTREE are mapped in the same workflow, the vServer mappings are not saved.

NetApp

Delete Export Policy

Upgrade: C-Mode binding errors

Delete Export Policy - As vserver input has been removed.

Workaround: Provide the policy name and resubmit the task.

NetApp

Delete Export Rule

Upgrade: C-Mode binding errors

Delete Export Rule - As vserver input has been removed.

Workaround: Provide the rule name and resubmit the task.

NetApp

Associate LUN as datastore.

Upgrade: C-Mode binding errors

a. Binding error while executing existing task on upgrade; even after revalidating all inputs

b. Binding error in imported task; even after revalidating all inputs

c. No binding error when a new task is created.

NetApp

NetApp clustered Data ONTAP Tasks:

Create Cluster Initiator Group.

Upgrade: C-Mode binding errors

The mapped type for the input "Initiator Group Name" has been changed from "netAppInitiatorGroupName" to "gen_text_input".

Workaround: For admin input user, add an input with type "gen_text_input" and map it to input "Initiator Group Name" in the existing workflows.

NetApp

NetApp clustered Data ONTAP Task removed:

Add cluster volume NFS export'

Remove cluster volume NFS export'

Workaround: User need to remove those tasks from workflows and replace them with the following tasks:

Create cluster NFS service

Destroy cluster NFS service

NetApp

NetApp ONTAP Tasks:

Add vFiler NFS Volume Export

Upgrade 7mode:

Task with Input/Output Mapping Changes:

This task now also provides the following output: "OUTPUT_VFILER_IDENTITY"

Workaround: Use this as mapped input for subsequent tasks.

The "All Hosts" attribute has been removed.

Workaround: If the `All Hosts' attribute is selected after upgrade, provide values for "Read-Write Hosts and Root Hosts" and re-submit the task for execution.

NetApp

NetApp ONTAP Tasks:

Create Initiator Group.

Upgrade 7mode:

The mapped type for the input "Initiator Group Name" has been changed from "netAppInitiatorGroupName" to "gen_text_input".

Workaround: For admin input user, add an input with type "gen_text_input" and map it to input "Initiator Group Name" in the existing workflows.

General Tasks

Modify User

Task Fixed for mapping/binding errors:

This task gives a Null Pointer exception when executed.

Workaround: Revalidate the task and execute it.

General Tasks

Collect Inventory

The network device input type for this task has been changed from Generic Text to `Network device' type.

Workaround: Change the input type to "Network Device" and map the input as an admin input.

VMAX

Create Cascaded Storage Group

For parent and child storage groups, the select type has changed from EMCVMAXStorageGroupNameList to a type of EMCVMAXStorageGroupIdentity.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Create Cascaded Initiator Group

For parent and child initiator groups, the select type has been changed from EMCVMAXInitiatorGroupNameList to a type of EMCVMAXInitiatorGroupIdentity.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Create Masking View

To select a storage group, initiator group, and port group, you must use Identity type for these variables instead of NameList type.

VMAX

Create VMAX Port Group

The mappable type for selecting a multiport list has been changed from EmcVmaxDirectorMultiPortList to Gen_text_input.

Workaround: Recreate the VMAX port group workflow.

VMAX

Associate Fast Policy to VMAX Storage Group

A new option for priority has been added.

Workaround: Provide a priority input and change the Mappable type to EMCVMAXFastPolicyIdentity.

VMAX

Create VMAX Port Group

The mappable type to select ports has been changed from gen_text_input to emcvmaxalldirportlist.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Add Ports to VMAX Port Group

The mappable type to add ports to a port group has been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXPortGroupUnboundedDirPortList.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Remove Port from VMAX Port Group

The mappable type to remove ports from a port group has been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXPortGroupBoundedDirPortList.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Create VMAX Initiator Group

The mappable type to select the initiator type has been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXInitiatorType.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Add Initiator to VMAX Initiator Group

The mappable type to select the initiator type has been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXInitiatorType.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Remove Initiator from VMAX Initiator Group

The mappable types to select the initiator type and the initiator to remove have been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXInitiatorType and EMCVMAXInitiatorsList respectively.

Workaround: Change the mappable types to the new types.

VMAX

Replace Initiator from VMAX Initiator Group

The mappable types to select the initiator type and initiator to replace have been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXInitiatorType and EMCVMAXInitiatorsList respectively.

Workaround: Change the mappable types to the new types.

VMAX

Add Tdevs to VMAX Storage Group

The mappable type to select Tdevs has been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXAllStorageThinDevices.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Remove Tdev from Storage Group

The mappable type to select the Tdev to remove has been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXBoundedStorageGroupDevices.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Expand VMAX Thin Pool

The mappable type to select the Tdev to expand the thin pool has been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXUnBoundedDataDevDevicesList.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Bind Thin Device to VMAX Thin Pool

The mappable type to select the Tdev to bind to the thin pool has been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXUnBoundedThinDevDevicesList.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

VMAX

Create VMAX Thin Device

The mappable types to emulate a thin pool and to select a thing pool have been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXDataDeviceEmulationTypeList and EMCVMAXThinPoolIdentity respectively.

Workaround: Change the mappable types to the new types.

VMAX

Create VMAX Data Device

The mappable types to emulate a thin configuration and to select the configuration have been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXDataDeviceEmulationTypeList and EMCVMAXDataDeviceConfigurationTypeList respectively.

Workaround: Change the mappable types to the new types.

VMAX

Create VMAX Meta Device

The mappable type to select a member device has been changed from gen_text_input to EMCVMAXNonMetaUnBoundThinDevicesList.

Workaround: Change the mappable type to the new type.

Hyperv

Add Virtual Port To Logical Switch

When included in the Network workflow, this task generates the following error even after you provide bindings:

"Handler failed with error - Invalid logical switch ID : , selectedContext=<None>"


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