Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Merkblatt
The Value of Infrastructure Automation
with Cisco UCS Director
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20 minutes. Customers can start
using services earlier, and the service
provider can start earning revenue
sooner.
using services earlier, and the service
provider can start earning revenue
sooner.
Cisco UCS Director shortens
deployment time by automating the
processes that your organization
would otherwise perform with step-
by-step, manual procedures. With
infrastructure automation, you not only
deploy solutions more quickly through
software: you also improve accuracy, so
less testing and debugging is necessary
before you take your applications live.
deployment time by automating the
processes that your organization
would otherwise perform with step-
by-step, manual procedures. With
infrastructure automation, you not only
deploy solutions more quickly through
software: you also improve accuracy, so
less testing and debugging is necessary
before you take your applications live.
Improve Consistency and
Compliance
Consistency and compliance are
difficult to achieve without infrastructure
automation. Human error is the
number-one source of downtime
in the data center. It happens when
administrators have to divert their
attention to too many tedious, repetitive
manual tasks that could be performed
better by software.
difficult to achieve without infrastructure
automation. Human error is the
number-one source of downtime
in the data center. It happens when
administrators have to divert their
attention to too many tedious, repetitive
manual tasks that could be performed
better by software.
Siloed infrastructure often leads to
siloed IT administrator teams, and
each team is influenced by each
member’s own goals and experience.
For example, a storage administrator
might bring best practices from the
storage industry and apply them to
your enterprise database management
system. These practices can cause
problems for administrators from
other groups—administrators for
enterprise applications, for example—
who are then confronted with an
unfamiliar environment. The lack of
siloed IT administrator teams, and
each team is influenced by each
member’s own goals and experience.
For example, a storage administrator
might bring best practices from the
storage industry and apply them to
your enterprise database management
system. These practices can cause
problems for administrators from
other groups—administrators for
enterprise applications, for example—
who are then confronted with an
unfamiliar environment. The lack of
communication between disciplines and
between isolated, separate teams can
lead to problems.
between isolated, separate teams can
lead to problems.
We get your subject-matter experts
talking. Everyone must get together
and agree how each application ideally
should be provisioned (Figure 2). Your
subject-matter experts determine
best practices together and codify
them into workflows. From then on,
Cisco UCS Director configures your
environment consistently and without
errors. No longer do you have to worry
about variation between administrators
or about errors and inconsistency
that result from tedious, repetitive
processes.
talking. Everyone must get together
and agree how each application ideally
should be provisioned (Figure 2). Your
subject-matter experts determine
best practices together and codify
them into workflows. From then on,
Cisco UCS Director configures your
environment consistently and without
errors. No longer do you have to worry
about variation between administrators
or about errors and inconsistency
that result from tedious, repetitive
processes.
As long as your workflows implement
configurations that are in compliance
with industry and government
regulations, your infrastructure will
configurations that are in compliance
with industry and government
regulations, your infrastructure will
be in compliance. We help you even
more with auditing and change control,
which helps prevent configuration drift.
Rollback helps you return resources to
their original state, ready to be used for
other purposes.
more with auditing and change control,
which helps prevent configuration drift.
Rollback helps you return resources to
their original state, ready to be used for
other purposes.
Align IT with Your Business
What could be better than making your
IT department a strategic asset to your
business—one that can quickly respond
to changing business priorities?
IT department a strategic asset to your
business—one that can quickly respond
to changing business priorities?
Suppose that someone in marketing
wants to produce a new campaign
practically yesterday. Sound familiar?
We empower you to meet these last-
minute needs—and because you can
provide a service that is fast, simple,
and easy to use, we make outside IT
resources unnecessary. Keeping IT
internal lets you better manage the
security of your business-critical data.
wants to produce a new campaign
practically yesterday. Sound familiar?
We empower you to meet these last-
minute needs—and because you can
provide a service that is fast, simple,
and easy to use, we make outside IT
resources unnecessary. Keeping IT
internal lets you better manage the
security of your business-critical data.
Storage
Administrator
Server
Administrator
Network
Administrator
2
Physical and Virtual
Infrastructure Is
Provisioned
Policies Are Used to
Create Template
3
System Is Ready for Use
4
Subject-Matter Experts
Define Policies
1
Server Policy
Storage Policy
Network Policy
Virtualization Policy
Application Policy
Virtual
Infrastructure
Administrator
Network
Configuration
Storage
Configuration
Virtual
Infrastructure
Configuration
Server Name
UUID, MAC Address,
WWN, Boot Infor-
mation, LAN and SAN
Configuration, and
Firmware Policy
Server Name
UUID, MAC Address,
WWN, Boot Infor-
mation, LAN and SAN
Configuration,
Firmware Policy,
SAN Zoning,
Create and
MAP LUN
Figure 2. Cisco UCS Director Delivers Comprehensive Infrastructure Management and
Orchestration
Orchestration