Cisco UCS Manager, release 3.1 provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components of the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) across multiple chassis, Cisco UCS servers, and thousands of virtual machines. Cisco UCS Manager manages Cisco UCS as a single entity through an intuitive GUI, a command-line interface (CLI), or an XML API for comprehensive access to all Cisco UCS Manager functions.
Cisco UCS Manager supports the entire Cisco UCS server and Cisco HyperFlex Series portfolios. It is embedded on a pair of Cisco UCS 6300 or 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects, supporting an end-to-end Ethernet or Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution of up to 40 Gb and up to 16 Gb Fiber Channel. The manager participates in server, fabric, and storage provisioning, device discovery, inventory, configuration, diagnostics, monitoring, fault detection, auditing, and statistics collection. Cisco UCS management helps significantly reduce management and administration expenses by automating routine tasks to increase operational agility Customers can extend the benefits of Cisco UCS Manager globally across an enterprise to thousands of servers in multiple domains with Cisco UCS Central Software.