Cisco UCS Central allows you to manage multiple Cisco UCSdomains or through a single management point. Cisco UCS Central works with Cisco UCS Manager to provide a scalable management solution for a growing Cisco UCS environment. Cisco UCS Central does not replace Cisco UCS Manager, which is the basic engine for managing a Cisco UCS domain. Instead, it builds on the capabilities provided by Cisco UCS Manager and works with Cisco UCS Manager to effect changes in individual domains.
For a Cisco UCSdomain to be managed by Cisco UCS Central, you must first register that domain with Cisco UCS Central.
Cisco UCS Central allows you to ensure global policy compliance, with subject-matter experts choosing the resource pools and policiesthat need to be enforced globally or managed locally. With a simple drag-and-drop operation, service profiles can be moved between geographies to enable fast deployment of infrastructure, when and where it is needed, to support business workloads.
You can use Cisco UCS Central to view and manage data that is distributed over a large number of individual domains. For example, you can do the following in Cisco UCS Central:
* View the hardware inventory in one or more registered domains.
* Launch the KVM Console to view an individual server in a registered domain.
* Launch Cisco UCS Manager in a registered domain.
* View faults, events, and audit logs in one or more registered domains.
* Handle one-to-many functions, such as global ID pools, global policies, and firmware management
across all registered domains.
Cisco UCS Central does not reduce or change any local management capabilities of Cisco UCS Manager, such as its API. This allows administrators to continue usingCisco UCS Manager the way they did before even in the presence of Cisco UCS Central and also allows all existing third party integrations to continue to operate without change. Selectively they can allow polices to be globalized providing them with an easy transition to centralized management.
