An e-mail popped into my Inbox on Monday notifying me that Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning (UIM/P) version 3.0 has been released and is now generally available. You might already be familiar with UIM/P as it is the primary provisioning tool for Vblocks.
Some features that are new to this version of UIM/P include:
- UIM/P now has the ability to not only add new blades, VLANs, and datastores to a cluster, but also the ability to remove VLANs and individual blades (called “elastic operations”).
- UIM/P now supports vCenter Server 5.0 and ESXi 5.0.
- UIM/P has the ability to assign individual pools to specific Vblocks and specific fabrics.
- UIM/P offers integration into vCloud Director so that UIM/P can push resources into a new Provider vDC.
- UIM/P’s performance when provisioning infrastructure services is now significantly faster.
Product documentation and the product download are both available via Powerlink.
Tags: Networking, Storage, Vblock, Virtualization
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Only the 1.0 and 2.0 version are available via Powerlink. Can you post link where you are getting your copy? Thanks.
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Mike, I just found it at Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads E-I > Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning. If you don’t see the 3.0 release listed there, then check with your account team to see if there are entitlement issues that need to be resolved. Good luck!
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Can UIM/P be deployed on a VM within a vblock – or does the appliance need to be located on external hardware.
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David, it is my understanding that UIM/P is typically deployed as a VM on a separate management cluster referred to as the AMP (the AMP is sold with the Vblock).
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