Protecting Cisco UCS Environments

Unitrends provides all-in-one backup, archiving, replication, and recovery of the following in your Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) environment:

     Blade and rack-mount servers. Use your Unitrends solution to protect and restore the server’s file system and hosted applications, and to perform disaster recovery of the entire server.

     Service profiles and other configuration objects, including templates, pools, and policies. Protecting these objects enables quick restore without reconfiguring your network and servers.

UCS server protection and service profile protection are completely independent of each other. To protect service profiles, you add the UCS manager itself to the Unitrends appliance as a client. To protect a server hosted on the UCS, you add the server to the Unitrends appliance as you would any stand-alone server of that operating system or virtual machine type. You can protect servers without protecting service profiles and vice versa, although we strongly recommend you set up both for complete Cisco UCS protection. Because server and service profile operations are independent, this chapter is comprised of two distinct sections:

     Working with UCS blade and rack-mount servers

     Working with Cisco UCS service profiles