Do you use Cisco UCS servers in your VMware virtualized environment and use different management tools to manage the blades and your virtual environment?

Then you should start using the Cisco UCS Manager plugin for VMware vCenter that can manage all your virtual and physical servers in a single management pane in your vCenter.

The Cisco UCS vCenter integration plugin brings the capabilities of UCS Manager into vCenter and you can use your vCenter to manage all your Cisco blades. The result is a single pane of glass for vCenter users to get both physical and virtual infrastructure information for a given hypervisor.

Before you start the integration of UCSM with VMware vCenter, you first need to check the following prerequisites for this setup:

• vSphere Enterprise Plus License
• Support for pass-through switching (PTS)
• Minimum Cisco UCSM release of 1.2 (1d)
• VLANs configured in UCSM for exposing it to your VMs
• Data center object created in vCenter Server to contain the PTS DVS

You can either use the automated wizard to integrate vCenter Server in UCSM or you can also choose the manual integration method.

If you use the wizard, you will perform the following steps:

1. Install a plugin on vCenter Server.
2. Define DVS.
3. Define a port profile and a port profile client.
4. Apply a port profile to VMs.