Silvo Lipovšek Sistemski inženir

Februar 2015

UCS Director Overview & Demo

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Challenges: •  Manual processes

•  Management of physical & virtual

•  Multiple vendors

•  Multiple element managers

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

wor

k A

dm

Update Trunks

Create VLANs

Configure SAN Zoning

Create UCS Service Profiles

Create Network Policies

Serv

er A

dmin

s

Configure Servers

Bare metal Provisioning

Setup Servers

Add VLAN to Service Profile

Create VLAN

Create Storage Resources

Stor

age 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

Approvals Define Cost Models

Business

Application

Requirem

ents

1

23

4

5

6

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Business Critical Apps

Introducing Cisco UCS Director Enabling Enterprise Private Clouds

Cisco UCS HP, Dell

Network

Storage L4-7

UCS Director

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Web Apps Dev./Test

Sandboxes

Web Web Web App

Bare-Metal HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR

DB

Hyper-V/KVM

Bare-­‐Metal  

Bare-­‐Metal  

Physical

Network

Storage L4-7

Virtual

Compute

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Cisco UCS Director Solution Overview

Self Service Web Portal

UCSD Unified Infrastructure Controller Multi-tenant & integrated cloud platform

Admin Web Console

Cloud Infrastructure

Amazon, Rackspace, …

vCenter SCVMM

System Integration

Admins Tenant Users Operators

ü LDAP, Single Sign On ü RBAC ü  IT Ticketing Systems ü CMDB, ü Metering/Chargeback

Server Managers Network Manager

Storage APIs

UCS

Cisco UCS Director Integrated Multi-tenant Cloud Platform

Nexus

Provider API

Custom Connector

3rd Party Device

REST API

RHE-VM

Physical Infrastructure

Public Clouds Open Automation Framework

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Broad Multi-Vendor Infrastructure Support

VBLOCK 200, 300,

700

VPLEX

FlexPod Data Center

FlexPod Express

Compute Network

Nexus MDS

Storage VM

UCS Director

L4-L7

vASA, CSR1000v

Converged

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Application Infra. provisioning with UCS-Director : 100% VMs Key Use Cases Infrastructure Provisioning for Applications : 100% Virtual & Mixed

Secure Tenant on-boarding

Application Profile Definition

Self-Service Portal

Express Offering for Specific Applications

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Task Library – 1300+ Tasks What is a Task

•  Atomic Operation performed on a Managed Node

•  Building block to perform a complex operation

Task Library

•  Compute, Network, Storage, L4-L7, Virtualization tasks are in the library

•  Create Custom Tasks to extend functionality

UCS Tasks

• Select UCS Server • Reset UCS Server • Power On UCS Server • Power Off UCS Server • Create UCS Service Profile from Template

• Create UCS Service Profile • Select UCS Service Profile • Modify UCS Service Profile Boot Policy

• Delete UCS Service Profile • Associate UCS Service Profile • Disassociate UCS Service Profile • Create UCS Boot Policy

• Modify UCS Boot Policy LUN ID • Clone UCS Boot Policy • Modify UCS Boot Policy WWPN • Add VLAN • Delete UCS Boot Policy • Delete UCS VLAN • Add VLAN to Service Profile • Add iSCSI vNIC to Service Profile • Add vNIC to Service Profile • Delete vNIC from Service Profile • Create Service Profile iSCSI Boot Policy

• Modify Service Profile Boot Policy to Boot from iSCSI

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End-to-End Operations and Provisioning

•  Single-click provisioning

•  Intelligent resource allocation

•  Automated, controlled delivery

Result: Improved time to market Minutes

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Live Demo

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