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Patrick Strick Technical Marketing Engineer NetApp

Henry Vail Senior Architect NetApp

Michael Zimmerman Technical Marketing Engineer Cisco

Cisco UCS Director amp FlexPod

Operational Challenge

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bull Infrastructure silos resulting in

under complex manual processes

bull Management complexity gt 75 of

budgets spent on operational costs

bull Under utilization of resources

Traditional Data Center Transformational Data Center

bull Pre-sized storage network

and server

bull Scales non-disruptive to

large scale IT environments

bull Clustered ONTAP

transparent migration of data

bull Non-disruptively move data

across clusters

Cisco UCS Director

bull Perfect complement for FlexPod

bull Converts manual processes into automated tasks

bull Delivers infrastructure in minutes

bull Automated workflows = consistency amp efficiency

bull Simplifies management with single view of all infrastructure

3

UCS Director with FlexPod

4

Task Based Workflow Creation

5

Orchestration Matters

6

Script-based Orchestration Model-based Orchestration

Operational Challenge

2

bull Infrastructure silos resulting in

under complex manual processes

bull Management complexity gt 75 of

budgets spent on operational costs

bull Under utilization of resources

Traditional Data Center Transformational Data Center

bull Pre-sized storage network

and server

bull Scales non-disruptive to

large scale IT environments

bull Clustered ONTAP

transparent migration of data

bull Non-disruptively move data

across clusters

Cisco UCS Director

bull Perfect complement for FlexPod

bull Converts manual processes into automated tasks

bull Delivers infrastructure in minutes

bull Automated workflows = consistency amp efficiency

bull Simplifies management with single view of all infrastructure

3

UCS Director with FlexPod

4

Task Based Workflow Creation

5

Orchestration Matters

6

Script-based Orchestration Model-based Orchestration

Cisco UCS Director

bull Perfect complement for FlexPod

bull Converts manual processes into automated tasks

bull Delivers infrastructure in minutes

bull Automated workflows = consistency amp efficiency

bull Simplifies management with single view of all infrastructure

3

UCS Director with FlexPod

4

Task Based Workflow Creation

5

Orchestration Matters

6

Script-based Orchestration Model-based Orchestration

UCS Director with FlexPod

4

Task Based Workflow Creation

5

Orchestration Matters

6

Script-based Orchestration Model-based Orchestration

Task Based Workflow Creation

5

Orchestration Matters

6

Script-based Orchestration Model-based Orchestration

Orchestration Matters

6

Script-based Orchestration Model-based Orchestration

Demo

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Resources

bull Learn more about UCS Director - wwwciscocomgoucsdirector

bull Technical Report on UCS Director with FlexPod ndash NetApp TR-4298 - Including example ONTAP 8 workflows

bull UCS Director on Cisco Communities - QampA

- Downloadable workflows and other add-ons

- httpscommunitiesciscocomcommunitytechnologydatacenterucs_managementcontentfilterID=contentstatus[published]~category[ucs-director]

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Resources

bull Learn more about UCS Director - wwwciscocomgoucsdirector

bull Technical Report on UCS Director with FlexPod ndash NetApp TR-4298 - Including example ONTAP 8 workflows

bull UCS Director on Cisco Communities - QampA

- Downloadable workflows and other add-ons

- httpscommunitiesciscocomcommunitytechnologydatacenterucs_managementcontentfilterID=contentstatus[published]~category[ucs-director]

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Thank You

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