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Supporting Student Notes:

As organizations scale their Cisco UCS infrastructure, managing it consistently with global policies is ever more
important. Cisco UCS Central manages multiple Cisco UCS instances (or domains) across globally distributed data
centers, allowing IT departments to enjoy the benefits of simplified, unified management of compute, network, and
storage access resources.

• Complements Cisco UCS Manager

• Helps enable management of multiple domains across data centers and geographies

• Provides model-based management and an XML API for large-scale automation

• Simplifies global operations with a centralized view of inventory, faults, and logs

• Facilitates the use of global policies, ID pools, and firmware management

• Provides a foundation for high availability, disaster recovery, and workload mobility