Presentation cisco ucs director

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2. Cisco UCS Director
PSODCT-1004
Joann Starke, Marketing Manager
Data Center and Cloud Solutions

3. Source: Gartner—Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”
Operational Challenge
Keeping current
data center up
and running is
73%
of overall
IT spend
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4.  Customized
 Inflexible infrastructure
 Long configuration cycles
 Costly management
and maintenance
 Ruthlessly standardized
 Fully automated infrastructure
and business services
 Unprecedented time and cost savings
 Agile
 Predictable and consistent
 Smaller number of scalable offers
Old IT New IT
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The Changing IT Mindset

5. Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Automation
Cisco UCS Director
Reduces resource deployment from weeks to
minutes
Allows IT teams to work together; encourages
teamwork resulting
in competitive innovation
Delivers unified automation
and management for optimum utilization and
efficiencies
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6. UCS Director
Unified Automation and Provisioning
UCS
Network
(ACI or Standalone)
Storage Virtualization L4-7 Services
=
Applications
VMware Vsphere
MicrosoftHyper-V
V V V V
M M M M
V V V V
M M M M
Bare-
Meta
l
Bare-
Meta
l
IAC
6
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7. Server Policy…
Storage Policy…
Application Network …
Virtualization Policy…
Application Profiles…
2
Polices Used to
Define Network,
L4-7 Services,
Service Profile
NFS and Storage
Create EPG, BD
Update SP’s
with VLAN’s
Boot Information
Create Network
on Storage and
Mount NFS
DvS/AVS
Nexus 1000v
3
Provision
Server Name
UUID, MAC, WWN
Boot Information
LAN, SAN Config
Storage Configuration
Virtual Infrastructure
Configuration
Network
Configuration
System is ready
4
How Does It Work?
SME defines policies
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8. Drag and
Drop
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Workflow Designer
Create Custom Workflows

9. UCS Director: Agility and Simplicity
Centralized Lifecycle Management of Physical and Virtualization Infrastructure
Virtual Infrastructure
IT Admins IT OperationsApplication Owners
Physical Infrastructure
Cisco
Nexus
UCS Director
Self Service Console
OS & VM Deployment
Admin Console
Policy Manager
Dashboard
Resource Pools
UCS Central
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10. UCS Director Differentiators
Single Pane:
Virtual, Physical,
Bare Metal
Easy to Install &
Use
Multi-vendor Support
Model-based
Orchestration
Task Library
Single Purpose
Solution
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11. Orchestration Matters
Script-based
Orchestration
Model-based
Orchestration
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12. Cisco UCS Director Demo

13. UCS Director 5.0

14. Application-Aware Infrastructure
SOLUTION
APIC, UCS SERVICE PROFILES
IN SYNCH WITH APPLICATION’S NEEDS
BENEFITS
SINGLE PANE OF INFRASTRUCTURE
GLASS
PHYSICAL + VIRTUAL
MANUAL PROVISIONING & DE-
PROVISIONING REDUCED
EASY 1ST STEP TO AUTOMATE DELIVERY
OF APPLICATION CONTAINERS
UCS
Director
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15. UCS Director & APIC
UCS
Director
Admin Portal
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Tenant Onboarding
• Policy-based resources
assigned
Infrastructure for Application
Defined
• Virtual or physical compute
• Talks to APIC controller for L4 – 7
Services
• Contracts between tiers created
DB - Small Web Stack LAMP
Stack
• Role based ordering
• Lifecycle Management
• Infrastructure provisioned to
application design

16. Developer Experience
UCS Director
Portal
Web: 2 VMS, High IO
App 8 VMs, 10 Gb
DB 2 VMS; 50 Gb
Web: 2 VMS, High IO
App 8 VMs, 10 Gb
DB 2 VMS; 50 Gb
Web: 2 VMS, High IO
App 8 VMs, 10 Gb
DB 2 VMS; 50 Gb
COMPUTE NETWORK STORAGE
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17. Additional UCS Director 5.0 Features
Resource
Management
Enriched Task
Library
Bare Metal
Agent
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18. Extensible Platform – Open Automation
 https://developer.cisco.com/site/data-center/converged-
infrastructure/ucs-director/overview/
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19. Application Template-As-A-Service

20. Cisco Prime Service Catalog+ UCS Director + APIC
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22. Template-As-A-Service
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25. Prime Service Catalog
Orchestration and Automation
Secure, Consistent Process Automation
Integration Framework
APIs to integrate with Portal, Catalog and Orchestrator
Cisco UCS Director
Integrated Infrastructure Management
Multi-Vendor Compute, Network, Storage, and Virtualization
Applications Delivered as Service
Amazon
Puppet
Chef
VMware
OpenShift
HEAT
OpenStack
Multi-Cloud (Virtual) Network Services
CloudOperations
(PrimeAssurance)
(3rdPartyBilling,Assurance,ResourceMgmt)
InterCloud
Fabric
Virtual Application
Container Services
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27. Virtual Application Container Services
(non-ACI)
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28. Virtual Application Container Services (VACS)
Built on Proven Technology
Automate the provisioning of virtual Secure Container
through Cisco UCS Director
Enable Virtual Networking (L2) through Cisco Nexus
1000V Virtual Switch – Nexus OS feature rich
Enable Virtual Firewall through Cisco Virtual Security
Gateway & Cisco Cloud Services Router
Enable Virtual L3 Networking through Cisco Cloud
Services Router – Cisco IOS feature rich
 Nexus 1000V
shipping for 5 years
with 8000 customers
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 IOS software most
widely leveraged in
the world

29. VACS Solution Elements
Container A Container B
VACS
vPath
VMware
vSphere
Microsoft
HyperV
UCS Director
SW Solution
• Customer can deploy solution as a VM
• Deployed on any UCS/Server with vSphere or HyperV
vPath
HW Solution
• Deployed on Cloud Services Platform (CSP)
• CSP: Purpose built HW - clear demarcation between
management and workload /application VM’s
• Platform High Availability
• Purpose built HW for higher data and SSL
performance
VACS
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30. VACS: Cisco Unique Value to Market
Container A Container B
VACS
vPath
VMware
vSphere
Microsoft
HyperV
Cisco UCS Director
Cisco Solution Provides:
 Virtual and physical infrastructure
provisioning
 Regulatory compliance containers
 vSphere & Hyper-V Support
 Provision complete network services
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31. Virtual Application Container Services – Licensing
UCS-Director
Converged Infrastructure
+
Unified DC/Private Cloud
Infra. Management
VACS
Secured Containers
+
Virtual Services
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• License per Server for 50 VMs
• Includes all component product license –
N1Kv, VSG and CSR 1000V (VACS
functionality only)
Per Server (50 VMs) Perpetual Per Server (50 VMs) Perpetual

32. Summary
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• Cisco UCS Director delivers unified automation and provisioning
• Unified automation reduces data center complexity, break down silos and
encourages collaboration
• Cisco UCS Director 5.0 is expanding its infrastructure capabilities into ACI
and legacy network service automation
• Cisco is taking automation beyond infrastructure allowing application developers
and architects to create application templates orderable from a modern self-
service portal

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