Nomenclature

Engineering projects are identified from inception to announcement by fantasy names that are often names of geographical places to avoid any trademark issue. Project California is not an exception. Project California or simply “California” is the name of the overall systems and city names, such as Palo and Menlo, are used to identify specific components.

Before the launch, Cisco decided to assign project California the official name of “Unified Computing System (UCS)”, but the term California will continue to be used informally.

Cisco UCS Manager

The Cisco UCS Manager software integrates the components of the Cisco Unified Computing System into a single, seamless entity. The UCS Manager is described in Chapter 7.

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