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Data Sheet
Cisco UCS Manager
Product Overview
Cisco UCS
®
Manager provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components of the
Cisco Unified Computing System
™
(Cisco UCS) and Cisco HyperFlex
™
Systems across multiple chassis and rack
servers and thousands of virtual machines. It supports all Cisco UCS product models, including
Cisco UCS
infrastructure, as well as the associated storage resources and networks. Cisco UCS Manager is embedded on a
pair of Cisco
high availability. The manager participates in server provisioning, device discovery, inventory, configuration,
diagnostics, monitoring, fault detection, auditing, and statistics collection.
An instance of Cisco UCS Manager with all Cisco UCS components managed by it forms a Cisco UCS domain,
which can include up to 160 servers. In addition to provisioning Cisco UCS resources, this infrastructure
management software provides a model-based foundation for simplifying the day-to-day processes of updating,
monitoring, and managing computing resources, local storage, storage connections, and network connections. By
enabling better automation of processes, Cisco UCS Manager allows IT organizations to achieve greater agility
and scale in their infrastructure operations while reducing complexity and risk. The manager provides flexible role-
and policy-based management using service profiles and templates.
Cisco UCS Manager manages Cisco UCS systems through an intuitive HTML 5 or Java user interface and a
command-line interface (CLI). It can register with
in a multidomain Cisco UCS
environment, enabling centralized management of distributed systems scaling to thousands of servers. The
manager can be integrated with
infrastructure and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
The Cisco UCS API provides comprehensive access to all Cisco UCS Manager functions. The unified API provides
Cisco UCS system visibility to higher-level systems management tools from independent software vendors (ISVs)
such as VMware, Microsoft, and Splunk as well as tools from BMC, CA, HP, IBM, and others. ISVs and in-house
developers can use the API to enhance the value of the Cisco UCS platform according to their unique
requirements. Cisco
) help
automate and manage configurations in Cisco UCS Manager.
Features and Benefits
Service Profiles
Service profiles are essential to the automation functions in Cisco UCS Manager. They provision and manage
Cisco UCS systems and their I/O properties within a Cisco UCS domain. Infrastructure policies are created by
server, network, and storage administrators and are stored in the Cisco UCS fabric interconnects. The
infrastructure policies needed to deploy applications are encapsulated in the service profiles templates, which are
collections of policies needed for the specific applications. The service profile templates are then used to create
one or more service profiles, which provide the complete definition of the server.