Cisco Cisco UCS Central Integrations Getting Started Guide

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Benefits

• 

Simplify operations by managing 

your Cisco UCS and Cisco 

HyperFlex hyperconverged 

infrastructure with familiar 

VMware management tools.

• 

Reduce TCO by automating 

routine tasks, simplified by 

the integration of VMware 

vCenter and vRealize 

Orchestrator with the policy-

based automation of Cisco 

UCS management products.

• 

Troubleshoot problems faster 

through the integration of 

Cisco UCS management 

products with VMware vRealize 

Operations and Log Insight.

• 

Accelerate application and 

infrastructure deployment 

to improve time to market 

and business agility.

Tight Integration Simplifies Operations and 

Lowers TCO

The integration of Cisco Unified Computing 

System™ (Cisco UCS®) management tools 

with VMware vCenter and vRealize Operations 

can dramatically simplify management of your 

provides significant provisioning, configuration, 

and operation efficiencies for the entire portfolio, 

from blade and rack servers and Cisco UCS 

Mini to Cisco composable and hyperconverged 

infrastructure. With integrated management, you 

can increase your business agility and lower your 

total cost of ownership (TCO).

The integrated solutions allow you to quickly and 

easily reconfigure and repurpose physical and 

software-defined infrastructure resources using 

your familiar VMware management tools. From 

firmware revisions to settings, all your I/O device 

configuration is managed through software and 

Cisco UCS service profiles.

The Cisco UCS Manager Plug-in for VMware 

vSphere integrates the Cisco UCS and Cisco 

HyperFlex platforms with critical vSphere 

capabilities such as VMware vMotion, Distributed 

Resource Scheduler (DRS), High Availability (HA), 

and Fault Tolerance (FT). The plug-in lets you 

provision servers and storage while maintaining 

the policy-based provisioning and configuration 

drift protection of Cisco UCS Manager.

vROps Integration Facilitates DevOps

 (vROps) automates 

the delivery and lifecycle management of 

infrastructure and application services while 

maintaining policy-based control of Cisco 

UCS resources. This integration significantly 

improves the monitoring and problem analysis 

phases of the infrastructure lifecycle, so it 

provides important benefits as your organization 

implements DevOps methodologies. Tight 

integration allows you to proactively manage 

performance, capacity, compliance, and logs 

across applications and infrastructure. It also 

simplifies data collection, because Cisco UCS 

Manager serves as a single source of data for 

each domain. Cisco UCS Central Software 

extends this approach across multiple Cisco 

UCS domains in one or more physical locations, 

working in conjunction with vRealize to simplify 

your management tasks (Figure 1).

Cisco UCS Management  

and VMware Management  

Tools Integration

Cisco UCS Management and VMware Management Tools Integration

At a Glance

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