In this chapter, the aspects of EMC UIM/Provisioning and VMware vCenter integration with UCS Manager were discussed. The chapter described how efficiently UCS Manager can integrate third-party applications and provide a better way to manage, compute, and network in the real world.

UCS PowerTool Suite can be a handy tool whenever you require changes at scale and you can expect quick results with all queries related to infrastructure. It provides complete programming compatibility to manage and monitor all the infrastructure components without spending any additional capital.

The next chapter explains how efficiently multiple UCS domains can be managed in the data center and looks at proactive monitoring of the performance and health of UCS and integrated components. It shows how to automate and orchestrate the data center components with advanced workflows to provision services from weeks to minutes.