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The Computing Polices determine how vCPUs and vMEM will be assigned to a virtual machine deployed through UCS Director as well as which clusters and hosts can have virtual machines placed on them. Add a VMware Computing Policy To add a computing policy got to the Policies drop down and select “Virtual/Hypervisor Polices” –> Computing. Then select the VMware Computing Policy tab. You’ll notice that there may be some default VMware computing policies listed here. These can be deleted and you can create your own policies from scratch. VMware computing polices are created by default when you add the cloud. ...

UCS Director is a cloud management platform and thus requires some infrastructure to deploy the orchestrated workloads. In many cases UCS Director can also orchestrate the configuration and deployment of bare metal or hardware as well, such as configuring new VLANs on switches, deploying operating systems on blades and setting hardware profiles etc. This post focuses on getting those devices to show up in UCS Director so that additional automation can be performed. ...

The basic deployment of UCS Director consists of deploying an OVF file that is available from the Cisco downloads site. This post won’t go through the deployment of the OVF but this should be a pretty simple setup. The deployment will ask for IP Addressing information and some passwords. Complete the deployment of the OVF in your virtual environment and then continue with this post. Once the OVF has been deployed, open a web browser and place the IP Address of the appliance in the address bar. ...