Proactive monitoring of data center resources can reduce the risks involved in running business critical applications and prevent any unpredictable disasters. UCS Manager provides capabilities such as faults, logs, errors, and events to the administrator, but it lacks in providing granular visibility into performance and real-time statistics of all the components. UCS Performance Manager (UCSPM) is a purpose-built data center operation management solution, which doesn't only provide performance monitoring of Cisco UCS, an integrated infrastructure network, storage, and virtualization components ,but it also helps in capacity planning of resources in the data center. It is an agentless architecture that supports Cisco UCS Central, UCS domains, network devices, storage devices, the Control Center, hypervisor servers, Linux, and Microsoft Windows servers. It allows you to optimize resources and deliver better SLAs for your applications.