IPv6 Support on Cisco UCS 6248UP Device

[Amit Vyas]

Hi,

We are in process of implementing IPv6 in our production environment and wanted to know what needs to be done on UCS level to achive the same ?

We have Cisco 4948 and Nexus 3048 switches in our production environment above 6248 switch

Thanks,

Amit Vyas           

[Walter Dey]

Starting with 2.2.1b (El Capitan) IPv6 is supported (don't forget, Fabric Interconnect is a L2 switch, no L3 = routing)

IPv6 Management Support:

All 3 IP addresses  (2 physical and 1 cluster) are now able to have IPv6 addresses as are the new CIMC “in band” addresses. Services such as NTP, DNS are also reachable via IPv6.

[Amit Vyas]

Hi Walter,

Kindly correct my understanding if it is wrong

Fabric Interconnect being a L2 switch it will foward the all the traffic to up-stream switch? which will / might contain IPv6 traffic as well ?

Thanks,

Amit Vyas

[Walter Dey]

Hi Amit

Correct ! IPv6 support was introduced in 2.2.1b for the control plane (management,....), IPv6 support for OS installed on a blade is totally transparent to FI. 

[MENG YUAN HSIEH]

Hi Wdey,

About IPv6 support for OS installed on a blade. It mean FI can handle all IPv6 traffic between up switch and blade?

Have any requirement for minimum firmware version?

Best regards,

Meng-Yuan Hsieh (Nick)

[Keny Perez]

Hi Nick,

Firmware required is just what was mentioned at the beginning of this thread.

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