The VMware VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Cisco UCS is an embedded adapter for VMware Aria Operations, collecting performance data from your Cisco UCS systems and providing predictive analysis and real-time information about problems in your infrastructure—all within the VMware Aria Operations user interface.
How the Management Pack Collects Data
During each data collection cycle, the Management Pack opens aconnection to Cisco UCS Central or Cisco UCS Manager to obtain data regarding UCS resources.
Notable Features
The Management Pack harnesses powerful VMware Aria Operations features such as:
5 comprehensive monitoring dashboards:
Cisco UCS Overview
Cisco UCS Health Investigation
Cisco UCS Chassis Overview
Cisco UCS Servers and Fabrics
Cisco UCS Virtual Machines
1000+ collected metrics for Cisco UCS resources
200+ detailed alerts and recommendations imported from the Cisco UCS API
Key performance metricssuch as total sent/received throughput, memory usage, and ambient, memory unit, and processor unit temperature.
Relationships to VMware Hypervisors hosted on Cisco UCS Blade or Rack Servers
VMware Aria Calculated Slotcapacity for Cisco UCS Chassis
Known Issues/Limitations
The following known issues/limitations exist for the currently-released version of the Management Pack:
Management Pack Dashboards assume that resources are not collapsed. If resources are collapsed, any widgets that reference the collapsed objects will not display data. See: Disabling or Collapsing Resources.
