Going deep with UIM

UIM is a purpose-built service for Vblock Infrastructure Platforms that has centralized interaction with element managers to define available resource "pools" and then view their capacity through a single dashboard. It creates policy-based, automated, converged infrastructure provisioning templates that can be used on any Vblock platform.

A UIM service offering is a template that you can create in anticipation of the applications that will be deployed on your Vblock platform. Once created, the templates are placed into the UIM/P catalog, ready for provisioning and activation when needed. Service offerings contain all except components needed to have a complete foundational infrastructure such as storage, compute, network, and operating system.

UIM/Provisioning provides administrators with a tool to provision the VCE Vblock system from one location. Compute, storage, and SAN components are discovered into UIM. The discovered resources can then be provisioned with...