NVIDIA® UFM®-SDN Appliance provides all management functionalities required for managing fabrics.
Fabric Topology with UFM-SDN Appliance
UFM-SDN Appliance comes with pre-installed UFM and has complete visibility over the fabric to manage routing on all devices.
Managed Switching Devices are fabric switches and gateways that UFM manages.
Managed Servers are the compute nodes in the fabric on which the various applications are running, and UFM manages all servers connected to the fabric.
UFM Host Agent is an optional component that can be installed on the Managed Servers. UFM Host Agent provides local host data and host device management functionality.
The UFM Host Agent provides the following functionality:
Discovery of IP address, CPU, and memory parameters on host
Collection of CPU/Memory/Disk performance statistics on host
Upgrading HCA Firmware and OFED remotely
Creating an IP interface on top of the InfiniBand partition
UFM Switch Agent is an embedded component in NVIDIA switches that allows IP address discovery on the switch and allows UFM to communicate with the switch.