UCS and Vsphere 5

[osianapglyn]

Hi all.

I was wondering if anyone could inform me of how ready the UCS product is for ESXi 5.0 and the new Vsphere 5.0 family of products?

I have recently purchased a pair of 6120XP fabric interconnects and a 5108 blade chassis which we are connecting to a NETAPP FAS3210.

I have got to the point of quoting up the Hypervisor just as VMWare decide to change versions.

Guidance would be appreciated.

Regards,

Osian ap Glyn

[lwatta]

The next version of UCS software will support vSphere 5. That version should be out soon.

louis

[peter.robertson]

Louis,

Is the 2.0 firmware a requirement for ESXi 5.0, or will it install on 1.4 but without some of the latest UCS/ESX integration features supported?

Thanks,

Pete

[lwatta]

So pretty much all the servers are supported with vSphere 5 now. I should have been more specific. If you want to do stateless ESXi you need to wait till 2.0 releases.

You should be able to install vSphere 5 on 1.4 code.

BTW my understanding is that we whatever is on the VMware HCL is correct. So you can always check the HCL.

louis

[Lewis Benton]

From what I saw on the VMWare HCL only the b200 m2 and b440's are compatible.

I asked our Cisco sales engineer about that the other day and I believe the other blades should be on the VMware HCL soon.

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