Cisco and Microsoft have cooperated to develop and enhance management packs for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and PowerShell, so you are now able to systematize data center installation, provisioning, and administration. This programmable regulation is core to the provisioning of hybrid cloud infrastructure and allows self-service provisioning.

The Cisco UCS Management Suite for Microsoft SCOM

A management bundle is a definition file with predefined monitoring settings which allow you to screen a particular service or application via an operations manager. The Cisco UCS Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is an amalgation of management packs which give visibility into the fitness, enactment, and accessibility of Cisco UCS servers managed by Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco UCS Central Software,and Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC).

Cisco UCS Manager gives entrenched management for all software and hardware mechanisms in Cisco UCS. It provisions Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers, C-Series Rack Servers, and S-Series Storage Servers;

Cisco UCS Mini, and Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure. The IMC provisions C-Series servers in standalone situations.

In addition to checking the health of Cisco UCS, you can also do the below:

  • See Cisco UCS physical and virtual resources, service profiles, operating systems, and virtual machines (VMs).
  • Associate errors and incidents amongst Cisco UCS arrangement and both bare-metal and virtualized Operating Systems which you manage via SCOM.
  • Visually connect blades, service profiles, and host OSs via use of SCOM status views to rapidly idnetify the consequences of how a given event will impact the overall system.

Cisco UCS PowerTool Suite

The Cisco UCS Power Tool Suite contains of a set of Microsoft Windows Power Shell modules for Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco IMC, and Cisco UCS Central Software which assists you to configure and administer Cisco UCS domains and solutions. This command-line toolkit is founded on PowerShell and is utilized to systematize and assimilate Cisco UCS management with Microsoft servers and applications. The UCS PowerTool module for UCS Manager comprises in excess of 1,970 cmdlets.

By the use of Cisco UCS PowerTool in tandem with comparable management tools founded on PowerShell from 3rd-party vendors, you are able to manage and control all the components programmatically provisioning VMs, etc. You are now able to administer Server Message Block (SMB) file share, Hyper-V host clustered storage, and LUNs. Cisco UCS Director also provides support for the the following network models, which are defined and founded on the kinds of logical networks in SCVMM: VLAN-based, private VLAN-based, and network virtualization-based.

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