BTW – anytime there is a major new release of software like vSphere 5.1, in spite of the unbelievable efforts of many to catch everything, update support matrices, some things always miss the cutoff. Usually, the time gap to fill these is very short. Don’t read into my “Heads up!” posts on PP/VE, Symmetrix, and this one any more or less than that….
Just got a heads up from one of our customers (THANK YOU!) that apparently for vSphere 5.1 support on Cisco UCS, the VMEM needs a new vSphere 5.1 specific .vib.
There are boatloads of EMC labs and customers using Cisco UCS, so check the Cisco support matrix, and stay tuned. I would suspect this will get fixed ASAP (like the PP/VE topic).
Hence, the value of a company like VCE that manages the lifecycle of the entire infrastructure stack. :) We will support vSphere 5.1 on a Vblock only when all these common "new release" issues are hammered out.
Posted by: Kenneth Hui | September 15, 2012 at 08:12 AM
There will also be updated UCS firmware and Cisco UCS ESXi customized installation media. Check out my blog post about that: http://derek858.blogspot.com/2012/09/cisco-ucs-and-vmware-vsphere-51-support.html
Posted by: Derek Seaman | September 15, 2012 at 10:25 AM