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5 Using UFM to Automate Network Management

Mellanox's Unified Fabric Manager™ (UFM™) is a powerful platform for managing scale-out

computing environments. UFM enables data center operators to efficiently monitor and operate the

entire fabric, boost application performance and maximize fabric resource utilization. UFM’s

automated and application-centric approach bridges the gap between servers, applications and fabric

elements, thus enabling administrators to manage and optimize from the smallest to the largest and

most performance-demanding clusters.

UFM provides the ability to monitor, troubleshoot, configure and optimize all fabric aspects available

via only one interface. UFM’s central dashboard provides a one-view fabric-wide status view.

UFM includes an advanced granular monitoring engine that provides real-time access to switch and

host data, enabling cluster-wide monitoring of fabric health and performance, real-time identification

of fabric-related errors and failures, quick problem resolution via granular threshold-based alerts, and a

fabric utilization dashboard.

Fabric congestion is difficult to detect when using traditional management tools resulting in unnoticed

congestion and fabric under-utilization. UFM’s unique traffic map quickly identifies traffic trends,

traffic bottlenecks, and congestion events spreading over the fabric which enables the administrator to

identify and resolve problems promptly and accurately.

Using UFM, one can set specific service levels for different applications to ensure that critical

applications get the right priority according to the fabric. QoS management is performed using a

unique intelligent algorithm that determines the optimal configuration for each device location in the

topology and its QoS capabilities.

UFM uses a logical fabric model to manage the fabric as a set of business-related entities such as time

critical applications or services. The logical fabric model enables fabric monitoring and performance

optimization on the application level rather than just at the individual port or device level. Managing

the fabric using the logical fabric model provides improved visibility into fabric performance and

potential bottlenecks, improved performance due to application-centric optimizations, quicker

troubleshooting, and higher fabric utilization.

Refer to UFM User Manual

for detailed installation and configuration options.

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