Cisco Cisco UCS Manager 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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