UCSPE limitations
UCSPE is an excellent platform for those looking to gain hands-on experience with Cisco UCS platform and UCSM software without setting up a costly lab. UCSPE provides a profound awareness of all the hardware available for UCS platform, and also provides hands-on configuration experience with the UCSM software.
But, UCSPE has some limitations as compared to the real UCSM software and these are as follows:
The system cannot be integrated to a directory server (like Active Directory) for user authentication
Server profiles configured can be assigned to the server, but an OS cannot be installed on the UCSPE servers
No Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM) interface to the servers is available
Remote monitoring data (syslog, SNMP, call home, smart call home, and so on) cannot be sent out
High availability of the Fabric Interconnect cluster cannot be simulated
