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Dec 09, 2014
Cisco Confidential© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1
Cisco UCS Director Overview
Mark Smith – Consulting System Engineer (UCS Director)
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Agenda
• UCS Director Overview
• Product Demo
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UCS Director Overview
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Data Centers Today
77%
23%
Maintain
Value-Add
• VMs deployed in minutes, remainder of infrastructure stack provisioned manually
• Most spend on infrastructure deployment, monitoring, updating, and troubleshooting
• Limited time to focus on new services
• Unified automation and management shifts IT activities to new, value-add services• Allows IT to better respond to needs of business
Source: IDC, 2011
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Challenges:
• Manual processes
• Complex handoffs between teams and domains
• Static resource allocation
Result:
• Days/weeks/months to deploy IT services
• High operational cost
• Rigid silos
• Infrastructure inefficiency and under utilization
Complex IT Processes to Deploy Application Resources
Net
wo
rk A
dm
Update Trunks
Create VLANs
Configure SAN Zoning
Create UCS Service Profiles
Create Network Policies
Ser
ver
Ad
min
s
Configure Servers
Bare metal Provisioning
Setup Servers
Add VLAN to Service Profile
Create VLAN
Create Storage Resources (LUNs
and Volumes)
Sto
rag
e Add vFilers to Group
Create vFilers
Create IP space
UCS Blade Power On
Create Storage Policy
Map NetApp LUN
Add Users and Groups
IT Planning
ApprovalsDefine
Cost Models
Bu
siness A
pp
lication
R
equ
iremen
ts
1
2
3
4
5
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Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution
On-DemandAutomated Delivery
Policy-Driven Provisioning
Secure Cloud Container
VMsComputeNetwork Storage
UCS Director
Domain Managers
OS and Virtual
Machines
Storage
Network
Compute
Tenant
BTenant
CTenant
A
Virtualized and Bare-Metal
Compute and Hypervisor
B CANetwork and Services
VM VM BareMetal
Single Pane of Glass
End-to-End Automation and
Lifecycle Management
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Net
wo
rk A
dm
Update Trunks
Create VLANs
Configure SAN Zoning
Create UCS Service Profiles
Create Network Policies
Ser
ver
Ad
min
s
Configure Servers
Bare metal Provisioning
Setup Servers
Add VLAN to Service Profile
Create VLAN
Create Storage Resources (LUNs
and Volumes)
Sto
rag
e Add vFilers to Group
Create vFilers
Create IP space
UCS Blade Power On
Create Storage Policy
Map NetApp LUN
Automated Provisioning: Compute, Network, Storage
Data
1. LUN2. Initiators/
iGroups
1. Zone2. ZoneSet
1. Service Profile
2. Server Selection
3. Installation of OS
1. VI Configuration
2. 1000v Configuration
3. Storage
Virtualization and Bare-Metal
VMware Hyper-VBare Metal
FC/VLAN
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UCS Director: Agility and Simplicity for Virtualized and Bare-Metal IT Services
Centralized Lifecycle Management of Physical and Virtualization Infrastructure
Virtual Infrastructure
IT Admins IT OperationsApplication Owners
Physical Infrastructure
Cisco Nexus
Open API for Integration
UCS Director
Self Service Console
OS & VM Deployment
Admin Console
Policy Manager
Dashboard
Resource Pools
UCS Central
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Unified Management and Automation Aligns People, Policy, and Configuration With Business
Subject Matter Experts Define Policies
Policies Used to Create Service
Profile SAN and Storage
2
Nexus 1000vvSwitchVI
SME
StorageSME
ServerSME
NetworkSME
Server Policy…
Storage Policy…
Network Policy…
Virtualization Policy…
Application Profiles…
Server NameUUID, MAC, WWN
Boot Information
LAN, SAN Config
Firmware Policy
SAN Zoning
Create and MAP LUN
Provision Physical and VI
3
System is ready for Use
4
Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware Policy
Storage Configuration
Virtual Infrastructure Configuration
Network Configuration
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UCS Director: Summary
Delivers IT efficiency to better align with business strategy
Quality: End-to-End Automation and Policies
Simplicity: Turnkey Solution Ready for Use in Hours
Business Agility: Align People, Policies and Infrastructure
Multi-Vendor Support: Bare-Meal and Virtual Infrastructure
Thank you.