Cisco Crypto Card Management for Blade Servers

Cisco UCS Manager provides inventory management for the Cisco Mezzanine Crypto Card (UCSB-MEZ-INT8955) for the Cisco UCSB-B200-M4 Blade Server. The main function of Cisco Crypto Card is to provide hardware based encryption capability to UCS blade server for certain applications.

The Cisco B200 M4 Blade Server includes two optional, hot-pluggable, SAS, SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs) and is suited for a broad spectrum of IT workloads. Place the Crypto Card in slot 2 of the blade server.

Cisco UCS Manager discovers the Crypto Card present in a blade server and displays the model, revision, vendor, serial number on the Equipment > Chassis > Server_Number > Inventory > Security subtab. Discovery of the Crypto Card fails if you add the Crypto Card to an unsupported blade server.

Cisco UCS Manager does not support firmware management for the Crypto Card.

Insertion and removal of a Crypto Card triggers deep discovery. Replacing the Crypto Card with another Crypto Card, Adaptor or Fusion I/O, or pass through card triggers deep discovery for commissioned servers. The following are the various Crypto Card replacement scenarios:

• Replacing a Crypto Card with another Crypto Card
• Replacing a Crypto Card with an adaptor
• Replacing a Crypto Card with a Fusion I/O
• Replacing a Crypto Card with a GPU card
• Replacing Crypto Card with a pass through card
• Replacing an adaptor with a Crypto Card
• Replacing a storage Mezzanine with a Crypto Card
• Replacing a GPU card with a Crypto Card

No cleanup is necessary for the downgrade of Cisco UCS Manager to an earlier version. If you upgrade UCS Manager after a downgrade, rediscovery of the card is necessary to inventory the card. For servers that do not support crypto cards, discovery proceeds uninterrupted.

Cisco UCSB-B200-M4 Blade Server