Release Notes for Cisco UCS Invicta
C3124SA Appliance, Version 5.0.1.2c
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Introduction
System Requirements
Upgrade Installation Notes
Caveats
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Introduction
This document describes open and resolved caveats for the Cisco UCS Invicta
C3124SA Appliance.
The ID numbers listed in the caveat tables in this document refer to a legacy
system numbering scheme. Those numbers will not be found in the CDETs
system, except where noted.
Note:
Future communications regarding Cisco UCS Invicta and legacy Whiptail
product software releases and field notices will come through the Cisco
Notification Service (CNS). Registration is required to receive messages
through this service. CNS can be set up to provide updates for any Cisco
product. Instructions for enabling updates for Cisco Invicta Series can be
found at:
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/invict
a/cns/settingupcns.pdf.
System Requirements
This release supports the Cisco UCS Invicta C3124SA Appliance only.
Note:
Before an upgrade to the Cisco UCS Invicta OS 5.0.1.2c service pack can take
place, the following pre-requisites must be met:
 Ensure that all Cisco Invicta UCS Invicta C3124SA Appliance hardware is
running HUU release version 2.0(3i).
 I/O to the storage device must be quiesced prior to the upgrade
installation.
 Ensure that there are no scheduled snapshots during the upgrade.
 Ensure that the Invicta OS 5.0.1.2b for Cisco UCS C3124A Appliance is
installed.
 Check the RAID device health using the Invicta Appliance GUI as well as
the RAID of the SDs via CIMC to make sure that there are no degraded
RAID devices. Contact TAC if there is a degrade RAID.
 A system reboot is required after the update is completed.
Note:
 HUU 2.0(3i) addresses a memory leak issue where the user was unable
to access Cisco IMC using SSH or HTTP. However, pinging Cisco IMC was
successful.
 Download HUU 2.0(3i):
https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=284296254
&flowid=31743&softwareid=283850974&release=2.0%283i%29&relin
d=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest
 User guide for HUU upgrade:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw
/lomug/2-0-x/b_huu_2_0_3/b_huu_2_0_3_chapter_011.html
Upgrade Installation Notes
See the Cisco Invicta C3124SA Appliance Upgrade Procedure Guide
(http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/invicta/up
gradeguide/invicta-appliance-upgradeguide.html) for service pack upgrade
information.
Caution Should you encounter any error or issue during the upgrade process,
please contact technical support before trying to uninstall the update.
Attempting to uninstall could potentially cause issues with your device.
Caveats
Resolved Caveats
Table 1 Resolved Caveats
Legacy Defect
ID
4371
[CSCuo12271 /
CSCup15888]
Summary
Added NTP functionality to sync ntp time, restart ntp
service, get ntp status, and configure NTP.
4562
[CSCup70591]
“Test Autosupport” feature to provide a clear successful
message to user when a successful test has been
executed as well as adding a log entry to the user
accessible log.
4625
[CSCup90385]
Include DMESG date timestamp in Autosupport.
[CSCut04298]
The manual-target-setup script did not ensure that a
process had a lock on the scstdb.
[CSCuv17303]
VM migration operation gets aborted & datastore
disappears.
[CSCuv17638]
LUN Deletion during active IO on another LUN results in
potential data inconsistency.
[CSCuu37404]
[CSCuu03475 /
CSCuv17216]
Adding a new NTP server corrupts ntp.conf
ACC5012: Invalid Bucket Number encountered upon
reboot during init, Observing alert "Invalid bucket
number:-22 for total_free_space:4885"
[CSCut43965]
factoryReset.sh script has been relocated.
[CSCux23638]
WSP downgrade tracking for 5012c wsp
NTP_October_2015 vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-7691;
CVE-2015-7692; CVE-2015-7701; CVE-2015-7702; CVE2015-7703; CVE-2015-7704; CVE-2015-7705; CVE2015-7848; CVE-2015-7849; CVE-2015-7850; CVE2015-7851; CVE-2015-7852; CVE-2015-7853; CVE2015-7854; CVE-2015-7855; CVE-2015-7871
Add an option to add authorized keys in target system
[CSCuw84706]
[CSCux57377]
[CSCux69765]
[CSCux70324]
[CSCux83016]
for async replication
Async replication failed due to "remote md5 fingerprint
failed”
Potential data inconsistency when performing an async
replication between UCS Invicta Scaling System and UCS
Invicta Appliance.
Enhance the WSP to check that pre-requisite is satisfied
by ensuring Appliance is running v5.0.1.2b before
upgrading to v5.0.1.2c.
Open Caveats
Table 2 Open Caveats
Legacy Defect Knowledge Summary
ID
Issue
Occasionally, in the
event of multiple
servers rebooting at
the same time or
switch/UCS-FI reboot,
Multipath SAN booted
Linux based servers
5858
Fibre
(Red Hat 7.0, SLES 12
[CSCus64952]
Channel
especially) may show
some (not all) paths
missing. Sometimes,
in the case of an
Invicta Appliance
reboot, similar
symptoms may be
seen as well.
Unable to release the
reserve LV in the GUI
5303
Lun
when VG is in out of
space condition.
Workarounds
Use the utility 'issue_lip'
and/or 'scan' to recover
from a host reboot path loss.
For an Appliance reboot
path loss issue, try
performing a host reboot
individually.
Please contact Cisco
Technical Support.
3264
5327
5233
[CSCur08935]
Snapshots
System
System
6030
[CSCus315321]
5339
[CSCux55513]
VAAI
LVM
Performance on LUNs
with Snapshots will
be 3-to-5 times
slower than those
without.
In excessive IO
conditions,
management
operations like LUN
mapping will have a
degraded response
time.
When multiple users
issue concurrent
configuration changes
to snapshots or Async
replication,
configuration or
operation of these
features can become
unresponsive.
OpenSSL
Vulnerability CVE2014-3513, CVE2014-3567, CVE2014-3568
ESX VMotion and
storage VMotion
operations between
two Cisco UCS Invicta
C3124SA Appliances
might result in
failures under heavy
I/O load conditions.
Stale entry of the lun
in GUI after bulk
deletion
Remove unnecessary
Snapshots to improve
performance.
Perform management
operations during off peak
hours.
Avoid concurrent
configuration changes with
multiple users.
No workaround is available
at this time.
Reduce the I/O load when
performing VMotion
operations to avoid this
condition.
No workaround available at
this time.
[CSCux59191]
BTL
[CSCux70125]
System
[CSCux84861]
System
Ondisk data corrected This issue will only be
temporarily with
observed in case of
read_hash_check 2
hardware failure and user
can always get corrected
data by enabling
read_hash_check.
Appliance hang while One instance at a time is
performing more than recommended when
5 instance of async
replicating.
replication
ASync Repl-Win
User need to install latest
Installer download
Cygwin setup-x86.exe to
does NOT install
resolve the issue
CYGWIN Package
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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