UCS Manager and C Series questions

[michgri]

My reading of the documentation is that in order to use the UCS Manager with a standalone C series server (C200, C210 or C250, anyway) is that in addition to UCSM 1.4 and a pair of 6108 fabric interconnects you also need a pair of 2248 fabric extenders.

First, is Cisco planning to add support for additional fabric extenders? I have a customer with a pair of 2232's who is looking at adding some standalone C series servers to be managed along with an existing B series chassis.

Second, I'd read on this forum that the Palo card may not be supported on M1 servers. Is it safe to assume that the Palo card is supported on M2 servers?

Thanks!

[Robert Burns]

Michael,

Correct, for the current revision of UCSM (1.4) you require two 2248's for Management traffic (CIMC) while your two 10G connection for the dataplane will connect direclty to each Fabric Interconnect.  Future planning is going to have a single I/O path and remove the need for the additional 2248's.  Future support for 2232 (10G FEX) will also be added to increase port density on the Interconnects.

Palo may "work" with M1 servers, but is only "supported" on M2.

Regards,

Robert