The architecture of UCSM consists of multiple layers with well-defined boundaries. External interfaces provide communication with the outside world. The Data Management Engine (DME) is the central service that manages the components of a UCS. Application gateways act as a hardware abstraction layer between the DME and the managed End-Points (EPs). The EPs are the actual devices or entities  Full Article…

Policies UCSM is a policy-driven device manager. Policies control behaviors and configurations. They control how a server or other components of the UCS will act or be affected in specific circumstances. The UCSM has a large number of different policies.These policies describe and control all aspects of the UCS such as network, storage, server configurations, and system behavior. Rules are defined  Full Article…

Virtualization Support. UCS virutalization support includes VN-Link hardware capable adapters, provisioning of vNIC through policies and configuring VIFs. Support for integration with VMware is embedded in the service-profiles, which allows for dynamic VIFs definition and policy consumption. Multiple dynamic vNIC connection policies can be created and each of the policies defines a number of dynamic vNICs. A service  Full Article…

UCSM stores all the object information and their states in a local database; in a HA-configuration, the database is always replicated to the peer Fabric Interconnect, and each Fabric Interconnect contains a running database. The data stored in the database can be backed up or restored. There are currently two available options for backup: Full state backup Configuration-only  Full Article…