Cisco UCS Director can be used for the following managing parts of Cisco HyperFlex systems:
- Inventory collection
- Discovery of clusters, disks, datastores, and controller VMs
- Datastore provisioning and management
- Automation and orchestration of VM and application container provisioning
- Status reporting

Cisco UCS Director contains predefined HyperFlex workflows, including:
- create HyperFlex ReadyClones from template
- create HyperFlex Datastore (name and size)
- edit HyperFlex Datastore (size)
- delete HyperFlex Datastore
- (un)mount HyperFlex Datastore

Last year Cisco HyperFlex already demonstrated support for OpenStack. However, Cisco has not officially listed OpenStack support for Cisco HyperFlex at this time.