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Zenoss provides complete visibility into managing Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS)

 

"With prior experience with Zenoss for VMware monitoring we knew it was something we could get up and running and deployed in less time than the other apps and would help us cover gaps in the UCS platform. We were deployed in a couple days."

Global Telecommunications Company

 

The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a next-generation datacenter infrastructure, designed from inception to give datacenter staff the infrastructure required for today's dynamic, scalable, and highly virtualized datacenters. Zenoss's model-driven management combined with the Cisco UCS solution gives you complete management of your environment, from Business to Blade.

A single Cisco UCS can support thousands of different datacenter infrastructure components, including blade servers, networking components, and physical and virtual machines.

Zenoss gives you the visibility to manage this dynamic environment by maintaining the logical relationships from operating system through virtual guest and host to the Cisco UCS service profile, blade, and chassis. Zenoss automatically re-populates its model when change occurs, ensuring that the datacenter deployment is always up-to-date.

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Zenoss Enterprise management of UCS enables the following:

  • Identify which applications could be affected by a fan outage – enabling workloads to move minimizing or eliminating downtime from simple failures
  • Identify how workload increases cause power consumption spikes
  • Quickly locate where capacity increases can be achieved – for example identifying which hundreds of server blades can accept additional memory
  • Maintain an accurate physical inventory of Cisco UCS components

Zenoss Enterprise takes over where Cisco UCS Manager leaves off by allowing cross-system and heterogeneous device management from a single pane of glass. Zenoss Enterprise enables operations to be simplified and costs reduced by providing all the capabilities needed to monitor today's dynamic, next-generation datacenter environments.