Introducing Cisco UCS Central 1.1

This chapter includes the following sections:

Overview of Cisco UCS Central 1.1 Features

Cisco UCS Central, release 1.1 allows you to take charge of the data center environment by delivering easy to use, integrated solution for managing Cisco UCS Domains from a single management point with high availability. With Cisco UCS Central 1.1, you can efficiently manage server, storage and network policies and generate network traffic reports for your entire data center. The following table lists major new features and functions in this release:

Feature Functions

Inventory Management
  • Manage physical and logical resources in all registered Cisco UCS domains.
  • Monitor Faults, Errors and Audit logs.

Global Service Profile and Policies
  • Create and manage global service profiles.
  • Create global policies.

Statistics Management
  • Generate network traffic reports.
  • Group reports based on your management requirements.

VLAN/VSAN
  • Provision common VLAN from Cisco UCS Central with org permissions for global service profiles.
  • Provision fabric specific VSAN from Cisco UCS Central for global service profiles.

Server Pools

Ability to create centralized server pools.

High Availability
  • Provides cluster configuration that enables fail over and high availability.