Cisco UCS Platform Emulator (2.2(2cPE1))

[ericwill]

Cisco UCS Platform Emulator, Release 2.2(2cPE1)

New Hardware Features

Cisco UCS Platform Emulator, Release 2.2(2cPE1), adds support for the following new hardware:

• New scalable M4 Blade Module for the UCSC-B260-M4 or UCSC-B460-M4 Blade Server added
• New rack-mounted server UCSC-C460-M4 added
• Support for the following storage accelerators:
  • UCSB-F-LSI-400S
  • UCSB-F-LSI-800M
  • UCSB-F-FIO-785M
  • UCSB-F-FIO-365M

New Software Features

Cisco UCS Platform Emulator, Release 2.2(2cPE1) includes the following new features:

• Support for the scriptable vMedia feature to create mount points on Cisco IMC. The mounts are only configured and not actually mounted.
• New tab Storage Controller added under Startup Inventory. You can drag and drop the storage controllers on the rack-mounted servers or the blade servers.
• You can add the scalable M4 Blade Module in scaled (4S) or non-scaled (2S) mode.
• The default configuration is changed to the M3 blade and rack-mounted servers.

NOTE: From UCS PE 2.2(1bPE1) onwards, UCS PE supports uploading the B-Series and C-Series server firmware bundles.  Because of the large file sizes of the firmware bundles, UCS PE only supports uploading of only the stripped-down versions (attached to this document), which includes only the firmware metadata but not the actual firmware itself in the binaries.  The stripped-down version of the firwmare bundles which contain metadata only of the B-series and C-series server firmware is reduced to approximately 50 kB in size.

• Download UCSPE Firmware Bundles: UCS Platform Emulator Firmware Bundles (includes firmware meta-data only)

[rinnor_chu]

HI, Eric

I downloaded the non-ova version and was very easy to import it into my vmware workstation 9 without any problem. So far, from my side is that the .ova version doesn't work fine and maybe need a further testing on your side within VmWare workstation context.

[shasridh]

Hi,

Yes, we are aware there is an issue while importing .ova into VMware workstation. We are looking into it.

Regards,

Sharan Sridhar

[jerryu168]

Any plan to switch away from IDE controller for the four VMDK disks?   Customer experience with the emulator will improve quite a bit, if disk performance can be improved this way. 

I run the emulator as a virtualbox vm and often feel that it can use some performance booster for API access and for UCSM access. My host is macbook with not-so-shabby spec (OS X  10.9.4, i7, 8GB DDR3, SSD, etc.).

Various modern hypervisors offer (much) faster SATA or SAS controller as disk controller options.

Excerpts from UCSPE.vmx in Cisco_UCS_Platform_Emulator_2.2.2cPE1.zip

ide0:0.present = "TRUE"

ide0:0.fileName = "UCSPE.vmdk"

ide0:1.present = "TRUE"

ide0:1.fileName = "UCSPE-0.vmdk"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = "UCSPE-1.vmdk"

ide1:1.present = "TRUE"

ide1:1.fileName = "UCSPE-2.vmdk"

[cwalshscc]

I am trying to import into fusion 7 & i get the error "SHA1 digest of file Cisco_UCS_Platform_Emulator_2.2.2cPE1-disk1.vmdk does not match manifest"

Can you assist with this issue?

Thanks

Colin