Cisco - UCS - Deployment Best Practices for VMware

1. Cisco UCS vCenter Plugin

• Extension for vSphere Web Client 5.1

• Requires vCenter 5.0 or higher

• Enables admins to view, manage and monitor UCS physical infrastructure

• Two major components

• ‒UCS-vcplugin UI is Flex-based extension to VMware web client

• ‒UCS-plugin services uses XML API to get data from UCS

• v0.9(1) supports only one registration per UCS domain

• Physical hierarchy view

• Health of servers and infrastructure

• Maps physical servers to ESX hosts

• For each ESX host:

• ‒Inventory

• ‒Firmware

• ‒Faults

• ‒Power/temp statistics

• KVM launch

• Toggle blue locater LED

2. Networking

3. Intel E5 Performance

4. Documents

Deployment_Best Practices for VMware on UCS