Hi Daniel
You are aware of the EOL announcement of B230-M1
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/end_of_life_c51-691438.html
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Milestone
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Definition
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Date
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End-of-Life Announcement Date
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The date the document that announces the end of sale and end of life of a product is distributed to the general public.
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October 28, 2011
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End-of-Sale Date
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The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale mechanisms. The product is no longer for sale after this date.
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January 27, 2012
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Last Ship Date:
HW
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The last-possible ship date that can be requested of Cisco and/or its contract manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.
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April 26, 2012
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End of Routine Failure Analysis Date:
HW
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The last-possible date a routine failure analysis may be performed to determine the cause of hardware product failure or defect.
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January 26, 2013
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End of New Service Attachment Date:
HW
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For equipment and software that is not covered by a service-and-support contract, this is the last date to order a new service-and-support contract or add the equipment and/or software to an existing service-and-support contract.
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January 26, 2013
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End of Service Contract Renewal Date:
HW
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The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.
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April 23, 2016
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Last Date of Support:
HW
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The last date to receive applicable service and support for the product as entitled by active service contracts or by warranty terms and conditions. After this date, all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes obsolete.
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January 31, 2017
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The support matrix http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html
clearly says
UCS release 2.2.1 - 2.2.8 => vSphere 5.0 U2 and U3
UCS release 2.1.3 => vSphere 4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0 U1, U2, U3
Therefore, support of vSphere 6.0 on B230-M1 will definitiely NOT be supported !
