Introducing Cisco UCSM

Cisco UCSM provides unified management of all hardware and software components for the Cisco UCS solution. UCSM also provides both graphical and command line user interfaces and is embedded into Fabric Interconnects (FIs).

UCSM controls multiple UCS chassis. The number of chassis that can be controlled by UCSM is 20, but the actual number of manageable chassis is dependent upon the model and the number of physical uplinks from each chassis' Input Output Module (IOM) or Fabric Extender (FEX) module to FIs. UCSM provides unified visibility and management for servers, network, and storage resources. The core functions that UCSM provides are as follows:

• Identity and resource pools: UCSM provides identity and resource pools to abstract the compute node identities for the stateless servers whereas traditional servers use the hardware burned-in identities. These identities and resources include Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs), Media Access Controls (MACs), World...