Cisco have recently release a new version of their orchestration product UCS Director. The new release is version 5.3 and includes a raft of new features of which the majority are around improved reports and APIC support. Another new feature update is the support for NetApp OnTap 8.3. My primary reason for performing the upgrade is to leverage the reports and enhancements to workflow execution. It’s also been almost a year since the 5.1 installation was performed and I want to keep my systems up to date as much as possible. I’m currently running UCS Director 5.1.0 and Baremetal Agent 5.0.

Some of the new features in UCSD 5.3 are:

• Support for C880 M4 Server
• Support for Versa Stack and IBM Storwize
• Enhancements to EMC RecoverPoint
• Enhancements to VMware vSphere Support (VSAN Support)
• Enhancements to Application Controllers (Cisco APIC)
• Enhancements to workflow execution
• Enhancements to the script module
• Enhancements to UCSD REST APIs
• Enhancements to Managing NetApp Accounts (including support for OnTap 8.3)
• Enhancements to Cost Models and Chargeback features
• Changes to Report APIs

You can find more about the features in the release over on the Cisco UCS Director 5.3 Release Notes site.

There are two components to the release, UCS Director itself and the Baremetal Agent upgrade. The supported upgrade paths for both components are:

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