Cisco Cisco UCS Director 5.5 Leaflet

Solution Overview

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Comprehensive VCE Vblock Management with
Cisco UCS Director

What You Will Learn

Chief information officers (CIOs) and IT managers are looking for ways to create real IT transformation that can

enhance business agility and data center responsiveness. But this transformation requires IT organizations to

build more flexible infrastructure to support a service orientation across the data center.

Organizations are shifting from siloed IT architecture models to converged infrastructure solutions that

preintegrate computing, network, and storage components. This approach reduces costs while enhancing IT

responsiveness and agility.

VCE, formed by Cisco and EMC with investments by Intel and VMware, accelerates the adoption of converged-

infrastructure computing models that dramatically reduce the cost of IT, while improving IT flexibility and agility.

VCE

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Vblock

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Systems deliver the industry’s only converged infrastructure solution that is both fully integrated

and fully virtualized (Figure 1).

Vblock Systems are designed with a single architecture that is reflected in the entire portfolio of Vblock solutions

and uses leading technologies from Cisco, EMC, and VMware. Vblock systems are based on Cisco UCS with

EMC VNX and VMAX storage, and VMware-based virtualization. Vblock Systems eliminate data center silos and

improve IT productivity, helping to deliver the performance and application availability your business needs.

Solution

Cisco UCS Director is a vital companion for Vblock Systems. Cisco UCS Director allows holistic management with

centralized automation and orchestration from a single-view portal. When Vblock Systems and Cisco UCS

Director are combined, the efficiency gains free IT to shift time and energy away from managing infrastructure to

delivering new service innovation.

Figure 1. High-Level View of Vblock System 700 and Its Components