As discussed previously, the navigation pane provides navigation to all equipment and components, such as resource pools, policies, and so on. The navigation pane has seven main tabs that categorize UCS hardware and software components into physical equipment, servers' software configuration, LAN settings, SAN settings, UCSM administration configuration, and integration with the virtualization platform (usually VMware). These tabs are shown in the following screenshot. When a tab is selected, it expands to give further information, configuration, and action options in the navigation pane:

We will now walk through the main configuration options under each tab in the navigation pane.