UCS secure boot - should I enable?

C220 M3 server shipped with 1.5(4d). Looking to upgrade to ucs-c220-huu-2.0.1a. This is the recommeded release on cisco.com.  Anyone have experience or recommendations on this? Should I use v2.0.1a and/or enable secure boot?  Thanks!

If you're talking about Secure Boot then I'm assuming you're talking about UEFI.
If so, and you're planning on running VMware, you may want to look at 2.0(3d)1 that came out a couple of days ago.  This has a fairly critical fix that fixes an issue where the onboard LOM's won't detect and load drivers properly in VMware when the system is booted with UEFI (this will prevent you installing VMware under UEFI - but it will work under legacy BIOS).  2.0(1)a still has this bug.
I'm running 2.0(3d)1 and it seems to be good so far.

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    Link to picture
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    Moderator note; picture(s) totalling >50K converted to link(s) Forum Rules
    Solved!
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    Hello,
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    BIOS Security Page displays:
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    I was scared to attempt the recommended solution of "Reset to Setup Mode" and "Restore Factory Keys", but it actually worked for me!
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    I did search before posting anyway, but I couldn't found anything addressing this specific point.
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    Hi richii,
    The Acronis approach ends up in failure. Didn't give it a second look at the reason, since the tool it's not necessary. I also tried several other "automatic" tools without success.
    The recovery approach will fail because it's tied up to BIOS boot.
    But I've performed the conversion from BIOS to UEFI two times successfully. After some digging, is not SO hard. It's just... "undocumented". Very, very undocumented, hehe. I made a step-by-step guide: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14286.converting-windows-bios-installatio...
    Let me know if it helps you...
    Anyway, if you don't have data/software, I would go for the clean install approach.
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