Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Guía De Información

Cisco UCS Director automates the provisioning of resource pools across physical, virtual and bare metal 
environments from a unified, centralized management console reducing time-to-value for both 
applications and end users.   Cisco UCS Director delivers native automated monitoring, OS and software 
updates and resource utilization analysis to free up your IT staff from mundane maintenance tasks 
allowing them to focus on competitive innovation for your business.

This section includes the following topics:

Cisco UCS Director is a self-contained virtual machine that can be imported into, and run within either 
a VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V environment. Cisco UCS Director is packaged and delivered 
to the end-user in two forms; in the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for deployment on VMware 
vSphere and as a compressed .ZIP file for deployment on Microsoft Hyper-V. Depending on the hosting 
virtualization platform (VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V), download and import the appropriate 
Cisco UCS Director format.

Prior versions of Cisco UCS Director were released as a 32 bit appliance only. As of this release, Cisco 
UCS Director is now released solely as a 64 bit appliance. When upgrading from a previous version to 
the current release, please revisit the minimum requirements.

 outlines the minimum system requirements for Cisco UCS Director.

We recommend that you reserve 3 GB of memory and 2000 MHz of CPU resources for Cisco UCS 
Director.

vCPUs

4

Memory

4 GB (8 GB recommended)

Hard disk

40 GB

VMware ESXi Host version

ESXi 4.1, 5.0, or 5.1

Microsoft Hyper-V Manager version

2008 R2 or 2012