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EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager

Single point of management for Vblock infrastructuresEMC® Ionix™ Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM) enables simplified, integrated provisioning,

configuration, change, and compliance management for Vblock Infrastructure Packages (VIPs). As

the newest addition to the EMC Ionix IT management portfolio, Ionix UIM is purpose-built for Vblock

infrastructure element management, managing the Vblocks as a single entity. This dramatically

reduces operational expenditures—while providing simplified management functionality that

empowers companies to more easily make the transition from physical to virtual to private cloud

infrastructures. Upon initial release, Ionix UIM will fully support management of the Cisco Unified

Computing System (UCS). This will evolve into full support of Vblock infrastructures.

Key Capabilities

Vblock dashboard and IT provisioning portalWith the Ionix UIM dashboard you can visualize across multiple Vblock deployments, giving you

consolidated views into your entire Vblock infrastructure.

The Big Picture

•UnifiedVblockelementmanagement

•ManagesoneormultipleVblocksfromasingle management point

•ConsolidatedVblockdashboard

•Policy-basedconfigurationandchangemanagement

•Deepvisibility,includingunlimitedrevisionhistory

• Integrationwiththird-partyenterprisemanagement

Enterprise Management Platforms

Unified Vblock Element Management

EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM)

IT Provisioning Portal

Service Profile CatalogUnified

Multi-VblockElement

Management

Stand-aloneComponent

Management

Configuration & Compliance

Events

Availability &Performance

Events

Manages oneor moreVblocks

Policy-BasedManagement

InfrastructureRecovery (DR)

CiscoUCS Manager

EMC SymmetrixConsole

VMware vCenter

Unified Provisioning,

Config & Change

Configuration Compliance

Analysis

Overview of Cisco UCS configuration changes

Service profile catalogService profiles are the “recipe” for building services and the basis for delivering “infrastructure as

a service.” With Ionix UIM you can build various tiers of service profiles for network, compute, and

storage configurations and combine them into an “offering” for customers. This enables Vblock

components to be delivered as standard units of service to a customer, selected via the Vblock

dashboard. Service profile capabilities will be provided for Cisco infrastructure in the first release.

Policy-based managementConfiguration policies can be set and enforced to ensure system-wide compliance to avoid configura-

tion drift. The first release of Ionix UIM provides this for Cisco UCS and related network infrastructure

suchasCiscoNexusandMDSdevices.

Unified provisioning, configuration, and changeIonix UIM provides automated infrastructure deployment and bare metal provisioning. This includes

automated provisioning of disaster recovery site infrastructure. UIM leverages cross-domain context

tomanagedependenciesbetweensoftware,hardware,network,andstorage.Deepandgranular

discovery provides a foundational basis to Ionix UIM’s provisioning, configuration, and change—

enabling unlimited revision history and fine-grained tracking, traceability, reproducibility. The first

release of Ionix UIM focuses on unified provisioning, configuration, and change for Cisco UCS and

relatednetworkinfrastructuresuchasCiscoNexusandMDSdevices.

Simplified integrationIonix UIM Vblock element management integrates with your enterprise management solution

providing change and compliance events to help track critical changes. UIM also leverages Cisco

UCS Manager APIs and EMC storage management systems, taking advantage of existing instrumenta-

tion and component configuration.

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Compliance checks across UCS devices

Provision UCS device configurations