Release Notes for Cisco Integrated Management Controller, Release 1.1(1)
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Release Notes for Cisco Integrated Management Controller, Release 1.1(1)
Hardware and Software Interoperability
Firmware Files in Release 1.1(1e)
Firmware Files in Release 1.1(1d)
Caveats from Previous Releases
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Release Notes for Cisco Integrated Management Controller, Release 1.1(1)
First Published Date: April 7, 2010Last Updated: August 31, 2010Part Number:OL-22348-01
This document describes the new features, system requirements, and caveats for CIMC Release 1.1(1), as well as any related firmware or drivers. Use this document in conjunction with the documents listed in the "Related Documentation" section.
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Contents
This document includes the following sections:
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Introduction
Cisco® UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers extend unified computing innovations to an industry-standard form factor to help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. Designed to operate both in standalone environments and as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System™1, the series employs Cisco technology to help customers handle the most challenging workloads. The series incorporates a standards-based unified network fabric, Cisco VN-Link virtualization support, and Cisco Extended Memory Technology. It supports an incremental deployment model and protects customer investments with a future migration path to unified computing.
The Cisco UCS C250 Extended-Memory Rack-Mount Server is a two-socket, two-rack-unit (2RU) rack-mount server featuring patented Cisco Extended Memory Technology (Figure 1). It is designed to increase performance and capacity for demanding virtualization and large-data-set workloads. It also can reduce the cost of smaller memory footprints. This server is built for virtualized workloads in enterprise data centers, service provider environments, and virtual desktop hosting. The system also helps increase performance for large-data-set workloads, including database management systems and modeling and simulation applications. Applications that are memory bound today will benefit by the 384 GB of addressable memory that the Cisco UCS C250 server offers.
The Cisco UCS C210 General-Purpose Rack-Mount Server is a general-purpose, two-socket, two-rack-unit (2RU) rack-mount server housing up to 16 internal small form-factor (SFF) SAS or SATA disk drives for a total of up to 8 terabytes (TB) of storage (Figure 1). The Cisco UCS C210 server is designed to balance performance, density, and efficiency for workloads requiring economical, high-capacity, reliable, internal storage. Based on quad-core Intel® Xeon® 5500 or 5600 series processors, the server is built for applications including virtualization, network file servers and appliances, storage servers, database servers, and content-delivery servers.
The Cisco UCS C200 High-Density Rack-Mount Server is a high-density server with balanced compute performance and I/O flexibility (Figure 1). This price-to-performance optimized two-socket, one-rack-unit (1RU) rack-mount server is designed to balance simplicity, performance, and density for web infrastructure and mainstream data center, small-office, and remote-office applications. Its single-rack-unit size makes it useful for service providers offering dedicated or multi-tenant hosting, and its economical price makes it well suited to the appliance market.
C-series servers are capable of standalone management using Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC), which is a n integration of the service processor hardware and the CIMC firmware. CIMC has a Web GUI and a CLI mode.
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
Hardware Features
Release 1.1(1d) introduces the following support:
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Release 1.1(1) introduces the following support:
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Firmware Files
The CIMC Release 1.1(1) includes the following software files:
System Requirements
The management client must meet or exceed the following minimum system requirements:
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Updating the Firmware
To update the CIMC firmware, refer to the "Firmware Management" chapter in the software configuration documents.
Known Behaviors
Server OS
Symptom Unable to install VMware on ICH10 SATA controller in SW RAID mode. This only affects loading VMware on an ICH10 SATA Controller in SW RAID mode. RHEL & SUSE are ok when the correct drivers are loaded.
Workaround
Symptom CIMC cannot see a USB drive mapped with virtual media.
Workaround
Resolved Caveats in 1.1(1e)
Release 1.1.(1e) is applicable only for the C250-M1 and C250-M2 platforms.
The following section lists the caveats resolved in the 1.1(1e) release:
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Open Caveats
The following section lists the open caveats in the 1.1(1e) release:
Symptom Sometimes a power supply failure message appears during the power cycle test.
Workaround
Symptom Web UI momentarily shows server health as critical in the power saving mode.
Workaround
Firmware Files in Release 1.1(1e)
This release includes the following software files:
Table 3 Files in this Release
C250M1-1.1.1e.zip
Container
upd-pkg-c250-m1-cimc.1.1.1e.bin
CIMC (standalone)
ucs-c200-bios.1.1.1d.zip
BIOS (standalone)
Resolved Caveats in 1.1(1d)
Release 1.1.(1d) is applicable only for the C200 and C210 platforms.
The following section lists the caveats resolved in the 1.1(1d) release:
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Firmware Files in Release 1.1(1d)
This release includes the following software files:
Table 4 Files in this Release
C200M1-1.1.1d.zip
Container
ucs-c200-bios.1.1.1d.zip
BIOS (standalone)
upd-pkg-c200-m1-cimc.1.1.1d.bin
CIMC (standalone)
Resolved Caveats in 1.1(1)
The following section lists the caveats resolved in the 1.1(1) release:
BIOS
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CIMC
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KVM
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Open Caveats
This section lists the open caveats for the 1.1(1d) release. Unless otherwise noted, the caveats are for all rack server platforms.
Symptom The vMedia interface presents a virtual floppy device to the x86 host. When a physical floppy device is also attached to the host (via the front panel dongle), Windows 2003 (x86 & x64) operating systems get confused regarding which of these floppy devices becomes "A:" or "B:". This mix-up may cause the load of drivers from floppy to fail.
Workaround
Symptom While trying to install ESX3.5 the system will return an error message saying that it cannot find any storage or adapter. This occurs with ESX 3.5 COS U4 or U5, ESXi 3.5 U4 or U5.
Workaround
This section lists the open caveats for the 1.1(1) release. Unless otherwise noted, the caveats are for all rack server platforms.
Misc
Symptom When network mode is set to shared LOM with redundancy is set to None, and if the cable is connected to LOM Port2, CIMC doesn't pick the IP.
Workaround
Symptom The following message appears after installation or upgrade to ESX 4.0 vSphere:
Error:TSC: 1137350434cpu0 :0)NUMA : 827 Signficant imbalance between NUMA nodes detected. Performance may be impacted.:Workaround
Option 1: Ensure that memory configuration is equal across both processors. Ensure that there are equal amounts of DIMMs of the same size and speed inserted in the DIMM sockets.
Option 2: Reboot system and enter BIOS setup by pressing F2. Go to Advanced-->Memory Configuration-->Memory RAS --> Performance Configuration--> and change NUMA Optimized to Disabled. Press F10 to save and reboot. (CSCtc33846)Symptom The firmware update freezes at downloading stage and at 5% completion. This may occur if there is an interruption to the firmware download while installing firmware through the browser client. Examples of interruptions include: closing the browser, clicking on the browser's stop button, clicking on the browser's refresh button, and network errors.
Workaround
BIOS
Symptom At times due to slow network bandwidth, a firmware update using a browser doesn't show the progress bar.
Workaround
Symptom The front panel COM port does not work.
Workaround
Symptom Faulty DIMM size and speed are reported in SMBIOS Type 17. The expected behavior is to report "No DIMM" for failed DIMM slots.
Workaround
Symptom When VT-UTF8 is selected as a terminal type in BIOS Setup, junk characters are seen on the terminal.
Workaround
Symptom Installation of any UEFI Aware Operating System may result in a complete system failure.
Workaround
CIMC
Symptom The front panel ID LED shows a different color for the power off state in the PM CLI and WebUI . When the system is powered off , only the Web UI reflects the correct state.
Workaround
Symptom After resetting a C250 M1 to factory defaults, if the network cable is connected to management port 2, the restored IP doesn't ping other addresses. Factory default mode is not supposed to be used for normal operation. If ethernet management port 2 is used it gets a static IP used by Cisco even if DHCP is enabled.
Workaround
Symptom Updating CIMC fails with an 'HTTP Download Error' message when updated using Microsoft Internet Explorer with the 'Install CIMC Firmware through Browser Client' option. Microsoft Internet Explorer reportedly has issues in file uploads over SSL. Mozilla Firefox works fine. See the following KB article from Microsoft.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889334
Workaround
Caveats from Previous Releases
The following caveats were opened in UCS software release 1.0(2) and are still unresolved:
Misc
Symptom The following message appears after installation or upgrade to ESX 4.0 vSphere:
Error:TSC: 1137350434cpu0 :0)NUMA : 827 Signficant imbalance between NUMA nodes detected. Performance may be impacted.:Workaround
Option 1: Ensure that memory configuration is equal across both processors. Ensure that there are equal amounts of DIMMs of the same size and speed inserted in the DIMM sockets.
Option 2: Reboot system and enter BIOS setup by pressing F2. Go to Advanced-->Memory Configuration-->Memory RAS --> Performance Configuration--> and change NUMA Optimized to Disabled. Press F10 to save and reboot. (CSCtc33846)Symptom The firmware update freezes at downloading stage and at 5% completion. This may occur if there is an interruption to the firmware download while installing firmware through the browser client. Examples of interruptions include: closing the browser, clicking on the browser's stop button, clicking on the browser's refresh button, and network errors.
Workaround
BIOS
Symptom At times due to slow network bandwidth, a firmware update using a browser doesn't show the progress bar.
Workaround
Symptom The front panel COM port does not work.
Workaround
Symptom Faulty DIMM size and speed are reported in SMBIOS Type 17. The expected behavior is to report "No DIMM" for failed DIMM slots.
Workaround
Symptom When VT-UTF8 is selected as a terminal type in BIOS Setup, junk characters are seen on the terminal.
Workaround
Symptom Installation of any UEFI Aware Operating System may result in a complete system failure.
Workaround
CIMC
Symptom After resetting a C250 M1 to factory defaults, if the network cable is connected to management port 2, the restored IP doesn't ping other addresses. Factory default mode is not supposed to be used for normal operation. If ethernet management port 2 is used it gets a static IP used by Cisco even if DHCP is enabled.
Workaround
Release 1.0(1d)
The following caveats were opened in UCS software release 1.0(1d) and are still unresolved:
Misc
Symptom The following message appears after installation or upgrade to ESX 4.0 vSphere:
Error:TSC: 1137350434cpu0 :0)NUMA : 827 Signficant imbalance between NUMA nodes detected. Performance may be impacted.:Workaround
Option 1: Ensure that memory configuration is equal across both processors. Ensure that there are equal amounts of DIMMs of the same size and speed inserted in the DIMM sockets.
Option 2: Reboot system and enter BIOS setup by pressing F2. Go to Advanced-->Memory Configuration-->Memory RAS --> Performance Configuration--> and change NUMA Optimized to Disabled. Press F10 to save and reboot. (CSCtc33846)BIOS
Symptom When a configuration uses a large number of PCIE devices with Option ROM, a device's legacy Option ROM may not be loaded by BIOS, limiting the ability to boot from that device. The system BIOS searches for and executes Option ROM in the order it enumerates the PCIE devices. In some cases, the Option ROMs which gets loaded earlier may take all the available 128K space leaving no space for the remaining Option ROMs. This limitation is inherent in PC and server architecture.
Workaround
Symptom When a USB keyboard or mouse is hot plugged during an Option ROM initialization or configuration screen, it may not work during BIOS POST. Only the hot-plugged keyboard/mouse will not work, other devices which are plugged-in before or after the Option ROM, will work.
Workaround
Symptom After replacing the CMOS battery and reconnecting AC power, the system does not restart.
Workaround
Symptom Installation of any UEFI Aware Operating System may result in a complete system failure.
Workaround
Web UI
Symptom A system configured to generate SNMP notification on hard drive removal is not generating the notification. SEL and IPMI events are being generated.
Workaround
Symptom On completion of the "Recover Corrupt BIOS" wizard, clicking on the "Finish" button brings up a dialog with the message "BIOS recovery may not be in a state in which it can be canceled. Attempt to cancel anyway?"
Workaround
Symptom A name without domain part used during login in a scenario where authentication fails over from AD to CIMC does not succeed.
Workaround
Symptom The firmware update freezes at downloading stage and at 5% completion. This may occur if there is an interruption to the firmware download while installing firmware through the browser client. Examples of interruptions include: closing the browser, clicking on the browser's stop button, clicking on the browser's refresh button, and network errors.
Workaround
Symptom When launching the KVM console with Microsoft Internet Explorer, the browser fails with the message "Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found." This error occurs with Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers with a specific setting.
Workaround
CIMC
Symptom At power up, the P1V1_IOH, P1V5_IOH, P1V8_IOH, P0V75_DDR3_P1, or P0V75_DDR3_P2 voltage sensors may be asserted due to a false value read in the first scan. This will make the System Fault LED glow or blink Amber for 10 - 20 seconds. These sensors will be corrected upon the next scan and the LED will return to GREEN. Corrected SEL events will be logged within 10 - 20 seconds.
Workaround
Symptom If a KVM window is closed while virtual media is open and a CD or DVD is mapped, Windows may not release a lock on the CD or DVD that was shared through virtual media and will not eject the disc.
Workaround
Symptom Linux mouse emulation is calculated, unlike Windows mouse emulation. There are situations when the KVM Linux mouse emulation gets out of sync with the host's mouse: Novell/SUSE's install DVD for SLES doesn't include mouse acceleration. The X setup for the install DVD is very basic, unlike RHEL's. A mouse will work on SLES once it is installed but lags during the installation.On Linux, you can switch between graphical and text mod using the Ctrl-Alt-F1 for text and Ctrl-Alt-F7 to go back to graphical mode. The KVM Linux mouse emulation sometimes gets out of sync when switching between modes.
Workaround
Release 1.0(1)
The following caveats were opened in UCS software release 1.0(1) and are still unresolved:
BIOS
Symptom Faulty DIMMs size and speed are sometimes reported in SMBIOS Type 17. The expected behavior is to report "No DIMM" for failed DIMM slots.
Workaround
Symptom When CMOS is cleared by jumper or by CIMC, the date and time of the system does not get reset to a default value or keep its correct value.
Workaround
Symptom If the BIOS senses a faulty memory DIMM the LED next to the slot will not be lit until after the BIOS POST is complete.
Workaround
Symptom When VT-UTF8 is selected as a terminal type in BIOS Setup, junk characters are seen on the terminal.
Workaround
Symptom After installing the CMOS clear jumper or clearing CMOS from CIMC, the date shows as 01/01/01XX. The expectation is to see the default date as 01/01/1998.
Workaround
Symptom EFIOptimized is a command under the UEFI Shell used to enable EFI optimized mode which removes legacy components of the BIOS. When you enable this mode, the boot order is changed to boot from the EFI Shell only. When you disable this mode, the expectation is to see previously configured devices in the boot order, but in the case of the LSI 1064E SAS controller, you will not see the SAS drives in the BIOS Setup screen.
Workaround
GUI Interface
Symptom Special characters such as $ or ! are not allowed while setting the default password using CIMC Utility . When a special character is given while settingthe password an error message saying : "Invalid character"appears.
Workaround
Symptom After logging in to the CIMC WebUI with one instance of Internet Explorer, opening a new browser instance and logging in again causes the first browser instance to be logged out without terminating the session. The old session still appears in the User Management -> Sessions screen. This only occurs with Internet Explorer 7 and 6 under certain conditions. The second browser instance must have been opened by using the desktop icon rather than using the File -> New menu option. Also, after logging in the first browser instance, the KVM console must have been launched.
Workaround
Symptom When installing CIMC firmware through the browser client, the progress stays at 5% during the download. If you are downloading over a slow connection, it may appear as if the installation is stuck.
Workaround
Symptom While paging through the System Event Log entries, the WebUI appears to skip over some entries. For example, the WebUI shows that it is displaying "Log Entries 1 to 49", but after clicking the "Older >" link, it displays "Log Entries 51 to 100", skipping over entry 50. This may occur if the log contains invalid entries that are filtered out.
Workaround
Symptom The WebUI displays a "client could not parse XML from server" message. This generally happens when the CIMC is not responding. Common operations that would cause the CIMC to be temporarily unavailable include: rebooting the CIMC, activating new CIMC firmware, changing HTTP parameters on the CIMC, and uploading a new server certificate.
Workaround
Symptom The WebUI Admin->User Management->Sessions page does not get refreshed automatically when the user launches the KVM console. When you go to the Admin->User Management->Sesssions page and click on the "Launch KVM Console" button on the toolbar the KVM Console will pop-up however the KVM Console session is not reported on the Sessions page.
Workaround
Symptom Existing WebUI sessions are not terminated after changing the CIMC IP address. After changing the IP address, the WebUI will not respond to requests at the old IP address. You will need to log in to the WebUI again at the new IP address. The old WebUI sessions however will still be active and can be seen in the Admin -> User Management -> Sessions screen.
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IPMI
Symptom POST Quiet display function does not work as expected. POST diagnostic messages display on the screen instead of the Cisco logo.
Workaround
Symptom When using the IPMI SOL set configuration commands, IPMI SOL parameter changes can be applied even if the sub-function is disabled
Workaround
Symptom A boot order set using the BIOS will be shown but will not persist across a CIMC reboot.
Workaround
KVM
Symptom Launching the KVM console with Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers fails and causes the message "Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found." This error occurs with Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers with the advanced "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" option set.
Workaround
LEDs
Symptom The front panel Power LED should blink when the host is powered off. Currently the hardware does not support blinking the Power LED when the host is on standby power.
Workaround
Related Documentation
For configuration information for this release, please refer to:
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The following related documentation is available for the Cisco Unified Computing System:
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