A couple of answers:ESXi hosts are monitored using a connection to vSphere, not directly to each ESXi host. By connecting to vSphere, UCS PM is able to track VMs as they vMotion from host to host. vSphere versions supported are 4.1, 5.0, 5.1.Microsof...

Cisco UCS Performance Manager can track the resource utilization of Linux operating systems running on bare metal servers in a UCS domain.UCSPM collects:CPU and memory utilization from the Linux OSLAN and SAN utilization (receive and transmit) for ea...