How to Use This Guide
Cisco UCS S3260 systems managed through Cisco UCS Manager support most of the features that are supported by other S-Series Rack Servers managed through Cisco UCS Manager. Cisco UCS S3260 systems also introduce some new features and management capabilities to Cisco UCS Manager. These features and management capabilities are detailed in the following chapters of this guide:
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Overview—Provides detailed information about the architecture of the Cisco UCS S3260 system and its connectivity when managed through Cisco UCS Manager.
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Migration to Cisco UCS Manager-Managed Cisco UCS S3260—Describes the steps required to migrate either a standalone Cisco UCS C3160 or a standalone Cisco UCS S3260 server to a Cisco UCS Manager-managed Cisco UCS S3260 server.
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System Related Policies—Describes the chassis discovery policy and chassis connectivity policy that are applicable to Cisco UCS S3260 systems.
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Chassis Profiles—Provides detailed information about Chassis Profiles and Chassis Profile Templates, which can now be used to define the storage, firmware and maintenance characteristics of a Cisco UCS S3260 chassis.
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Storage Management—Describes the new storage components in a Cisco UCS S3260 system, and how to manage them.
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Firmware Management—Provides detailed information about Chassis Firmware Packages and the endpoints of Cisco UCS S3260 on which firmware can be updated manually.
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Chassis Management—Provides detailed information about the management of the Cisco UCS S3260 chassis.
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Server Management—Provides detailed information about the management of the Cisco UCS S3260 Server Node.
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SIOC Management—Provides detailed information about the management of the System Input/Output controllers (SIOCs) that are part of a Cisco UCS S3260 chassis.
All features and configuration tasks that are supported by Cisco UCS Manager Release 3.1 and later releases are described in the configuration guides that are listed in the following table. These guides must be used with this quick reference guide for Cisco UCS S3260 systems.
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Discusses Cisco UCS architecture and Day 0 operations, including Cisco UCS Manager initial configuration, and configuration best practices. |
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Discusses password management, role-based access configuration, remote authentication, communication services, CIMC session management, organizations, backup and restore, scheduling options, BIOS tokens and deferred deployments. |
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Discusses physical and virtual infrastructure components used and managed by Cisco UCS Manager. |
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Discusses downloading and managing firmware, upgrading through Auto Install, upgrading through service profiles, directly upgrading at endpoints using firmware auto sync, managing the capability catalog, deployment scenarios, and troubleshooting. |
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Discusses the new licenses, registering Cisco UCS domains with Cisco UCS Central, power capping, server boot, server profiles and server-related policies. |
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Discusses all aspects of storage management such as SAN and VSAN in Cisco UCS Manager. |
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Discusses all aspects of network management such as LAN and VLAN connectivity in Cisco UCS Manager. |
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Discusses all aspects of system and health monitoring including system statistics in Cisco UCS Manager. |
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Discusses all aspects of management of UCS S-Series servers that are managed through Cisco UCS Manager. |
The Release Notes for Cisco UCS Manager, Release 3.2 has detailed information about new features, resolved caveats, open caveats, and workarounds for Cisco UCS Manager, Release 3.2