Mellanox Unified Fabric Manager Advanced

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Features Summary

• UFM for the data center
  The dynamic nature of today's virtualized data center and cloud computing environments is creating new application performance and network management challenges. While advanced management applications have been developed to consolidate and virtualize both server computing and storage, networking concepts have not advanced at the same pace to address these challenges.
• Fabric as a service approach
  While other tools are device-oriented and involve manual processes, UFM uses a revolutionary fabric model to group fabric devices and easily apply policies that are correlated to the application. UFM's management infrastructure enables fabric monitoring and performance optimization on the application-logical level rather than just at the individual port or device level.
• Intelligent fabric resource management
  UFM's unique end-to-end fabric policy engine correlates fabric policy to application needs in the most optimal way. UFM is aware of the different components' capabilities and deploys fabric-wide policy such as VLANing and QoS according to the capabilities of each device in the fabric.
• Server virtualization and virtual machine migration
  UFM is aware of virtual servers and treats them similar to physical servers. The fabric policy engine enables connectivity and fabric policy to virtual servers as well. Upon VM migration, UFM keeps the connectivity and policy intact - providing a seamless migration environment for the application.
• Integration with data center management tools
  UFM provides an open and extensible object model to describe data center infrastructure and conduct relevant actions. In addition, it includes a service oriented architecture that exposes a rich set of web-services (WSDL), enabling integration with service orchestrators and resource managers to manage next generation fabrics.
• Enterprise grade platform
  Fabric-wide maintenance tasks are performed from a central location and improve operational efficiency and control. Group operations such as switch firmware updates are enabled via a single mouse click. Failovers are handled seamlessly and are transparent to both the user and the applications running on the fabric. This significantly lowers downtime and makes UFM the ultimate management tool for the most demanding data center environments.
• UFM for High Performance Computing (HPEC)
  Today's HPEC environments require advanced management platforms that help maximize the performance of existing equipment, and provide the required visibility and control to optimize the health and performance of the fabric.
• Solve traffic bottlenecks
  Fabric congestion is difficult to detect when using traditional management tools, resulting in unnoticed congestion and fabric underutilization. UFM's unique congestion tracking feature quickly identifies traffic bottlenecks and congestion events spreading over the fabric.
• Optimize performance
  Mellanox's routing performance optimization is an innovative and major conceptual shift from static routing (based on path counting) to a traffic pattern-based algorithm. UFM optimizes routing algorithms by taking into consideration the fabric topology, the various services and active applications and their characteristics.

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