Cisco UCS Management through Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director is not a replacement for Cisco UCS Manager. Rather, Cisco UCS Director uses orchestration to automate some of the steps required to configure a Cisco UCS domain. In this way, Cisco UCS Director provides a statistical analysis of the data and a converged view of each pod.
After you add a Cisco UCS domain to Cisco UCS Director as a Cisco UCS Manager account, Cisco UCS Director provides you with complete visibility into the Cisco UCS domain. In addition, you can use Cisco UCS Director to manage and configure that Cisco UCS domain.
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The features that you can use to manage a Cisco UCS Manager account depend on the Cisco UCS Manager release. Be sure to refer to the Cisco UCS Manager Release Notes for supported features prior to managing the account from Cisco UCS Director. |
Management of Cisco UCS Mini
If the Cisco UCS domain in a Cisco UCS Manager account includes Cisco UCS Mini, you can use Cisco UCS Director to manage, configure, orchestrate, monitor, and report on Cisco UCS Mini.
For more information about Cisco UCS Mini, see the Cisco UCS Manager User Guides for Cisco UCS Mini and the Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis Installation Guide.