Integrating VMware vCenter server with UCSM

Do you use Cisco UCS servers in your VMware virtualized environment and use different management tools to manage the blades and your virtual environment?

Then you should start using Cisco UCS Manager Plugin for VMware vCenter that can manage all your virtual and physical servers in a single management pane in your vCenter.

Cisco UCS vCenter integration plugin brings capabilities of UCS Manager into vCenter and you can use your vCenter to manage all your Cisco blades. The result is a single pane of glass for VirtualCenter users to get both physical and virtual infrastructure information for a given hypervisor.

Before you start the integration of UCSM with VMware vCenter, you first need to check the following prerequisites for this setup:

• vSphere Enterprise Plus License
• Support for Pass Through Switching (PTS)
• Minimum Cisco UCSM release of 1.2 (1d)
• VLANs configured in UCSM for exposing it to your VMs
• Datacenter object created in vCenter Server to contain...