Increase IT Flexibility
Quickly adapt your IT strategy to business needs with UCS Director.
Gain Scalable Operational Efficiency
Cisco UCS Management products offer effective automation capabilities and role-based access to help you efficiently administer data center infrastructure.
Download the UCS Platform emulator (virtual machine image) now to experience UCS Manager.
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Cisco UCS Manager
- Provides embedded, unified, policy-based management of Cisco UCS servers and fabric components
- Simplifies systems management tasks with service profiles
- Improves IT productivity through an open API
- Provides granular visibility and control through partnersâ management tools
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Cisco UCS Central
- Simplifies global operations
- Centralizes management of UCS global policies, service profiles, ID pools, and templates
- Exposes an open API for large-scale automation, and integration with other tools
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Cisco UCS Director
- Extends policy-based control and automation beyond UCS domains and Nexus devices
- Expands configuration and automation beyond Cisco products
- Manages industry-leading converged infrastructure solutions
- Delivers quality and business speed
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Gain Value Using Partner Solutions
Through an open API, Cisco collaborates with systems management vendors to deliver optimized solutions covering the entire operational lifecycle.
Some of the ways you can take advantage of partner solutions follow. Deploy operating systems and applications on Cisco UCS to deliver business services. Manage multiple software layers across data centers. Use specialized network management software to takes advantage of unique UCS capabilities, all within the context of existing IT processes.
A variety of tools work with Cisco UCS, including:
- Service assurance tools which use standard UCS interfaces to gain visibility into application health
- Analysis and performance tools which can identify infrastructure resources and map their dependencies throughout the application stack
- Provisioning tools which can deploy complete hardware-software application stacks by using UCS service profiles to define bare-metal x86 server and network resources
- Configuration management tools which enforce policies through the Cisco UCS API to help ensure consistently deployed infrastructure
The Cisco UCS programmable infrastructure allows unified management and provisioning for data center automation. Find out more about the Cisco UCS Manager Partner Ecosystem.
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Custom Development with Cisco UCS Manager
The Cisco UCS Manager XML API is an open interface to the managed UCS objects. Documentation for this API is available on the Cisco Developer Network. To support you in developing solutions, the following resources are available:
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