Cisco UCS Director
supports the VMware vSphere product family and enables access to advanced
features such as vMotion, Dynamic Resource Scheduling, and Site Recovery
Manager.
Cisco UCS Director
integrates with VMware vCenter server to provide automation and life cycle
management of virtual infrastructure. Beginning with the physical
infrastructure,
Cisco UCS Director
provides automated deployment of ESXi hypervisor onto compute infrastructures
such as UCS, and then presents the hypervisor hosts to vCenter for hosting
virtual machines.
During this process,
Cisco UCS Director
also provides the capability to provision physical storage and present the
storage as datastores that host the data for virtual machines. You can automate
the creation of virtual machines and their dependent infrastructure, such as
virtual switches, port groups and datastores, as per the environmental needs of
tenant users and private cloud consumers.
You can launch the
virtual machine console for troubleshooting purposes. You can also create
complex 3-tier applications using the application container feature.
For more information
about the application container feature, see the
Cisco UCS Director Application
Container Guide.
You can even deploy
virtual machines in a highly available environment by configuring DRS rules or
HA clusters. Site level redundancy can be achieved using the SRM integration
feature, which allows VMs to have site level protection.
For more information
about supported Vmware vSphere versions and limitations on support, see the
Cisco UCS Director
Compatibility Matrix.