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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

6

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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.