New Feature Releases: Feb 6

[JulieF]

• Added OS installation support for RHEL 9.5 on Intersight Managed Mode and Cisco UCS C-Series Standalone mode servers. For more information, see Operating System Installation Overview.

• Added the ability to validate the accessibility of Operating System (OS) and Server Configuration Utility (SCU) image resources within the software repository using the Validate Image Accessibility action. These resources can also be validated directly by executing a system-defined workflow. This feature aids in proactively identifying any inaccessible resources, preventing OS installation failures, and ensuring seamless deployment. For more information, see Validating Image Accessibility.

• Added support for the following in Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO):

• Cloud Resource Management - AWS

  • Newly Supported AWS Instance Families and Regions

  • Enhancements for AWS VMs Running EC2 GPU Instance Types

• Cloud Resource Management - Azure

• Support for Azure SQL Managed Instances

• Support for Azure VMs Running GPU Instance Types

• Newly Supported Azure Instance Type Series

• Support for Azure Zone-redundant Storage (ZRS)

• Discovery of Azure Savings Plans

• Enhanced Support for Azure Confidential VMs

• Cloud Resource Management - Google Cloud

• Scale Actions for Google Cloud VMs Running Custom Machine Types

• Historically-informed Action Generation for Google Cloud VMs

• Cloud Resource Management - AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

• Tracking of Externally-executed Cloud Actions

• Improved Management of Cloud Instance Types in Cloud Policies

• Improved Action Generation for Unattached Cloud Volumes

• On-prem Resource Management

• Sustainability Metrics in VM Move and Host Suspend Actions

• Discovery and Maintenance of vSAN Minimum Host Requirements

• Container Platform Management

• Node Provision and Suspension Actions for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Clusters

• Enhancement for Container Pod Move Actions

• Set the following values for the updated Kubernetes Collector: For iwoServerVersion, enter 8.14. For collectorImage.tag enter 8.14.0.2. For more information, see the Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer Target Configuration and User Guide.

• Added new storage tasks in the Intersight Cloud Orchestrator task library to allow management of NVMe/FC or NVMe/TCP attached storage. For more information, see Supported Tasks for Hitachi Targets.

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