Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Information Guide
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Unified Infrastructure Management
The addition of Cisco UCS Director to NESIC’s solution has also provided end-to-end
infrastructure automation and management across compute, network, storage and
hypervisor layers. Utilizing the task library which is available out of the box with UCS
Director, NESIC can automate all the steps needed to provision and configure the storage
and network VLAN settings across their virtual and physical environment.
The addition of Cisco UCS Director to NESIC’s solution has also provided end-to-end
infrastructure automation and management across compute, network, storage and
hypervisor layers. Utilizing the task library which is available out of the box with UCS
Director, NESIC can automate all the steps needed to provision and configure the storage
and network VLAN settings across their virtual and physical environment.
Before Cisco UCS Director, the infrastructure teams were required to follow a strict,
manual set of processes that included review and verification steps. With different teams
overseeing this process, NESIC found this to be a time consuming and laborious process.
Cisco UCS Director allows the NESIC teams to include approval steps as part of the
workflows which eliminates these time-consuming processes, resulting in flexibility and
agility for their data center infrastructure teams while maintaining a high level of governance.
manual set of processes that included review and verification steps. With different teams
overseeing this process, NESIC found this to be a time consuming and laborious process.
Cisco UCS Director allows the NESIC teams to include approval steps as part of the
workflows which eliminates these time-consuming processes, resulting in flexibility and
agility for their data center infrastructure teams while maintaining a high level of governance.
“The effects of Cisco UCS Director have been enormous. Teams spend half as much time
deploying environments from the cloud architecture department, new solutions promotion
department, and enterprise solutions operations unit,” says Matsuda. “NESIC looked at
other options for automated management tools for virtual environments, but only Cisco
UCS Director could manage both virtual and physical environments.”
deploying environments from the cloud architecture department, new solutions promotion
department, and enterprise solutions operations unit,” says Matsuda. “NESIC looked at
other options for automated management tools for virtual environments, but only Cisco
UCS Director could manage both virtual and physical environments.”
Lastly, UCS Director’s infrastructure portal designed for IT operations and administrators
allows the infrastructure team to provision their own environments needed for specific
projects. These data center teams now have the ability to manage complete lifecycle
operations, including provisioning and de-provisioning resources, instead of needing to
issue a trouble ticket or perform the activity manually.
allows the infrastructure team to provision their own environments needed for specific
projects. These data center teams now have the ability to manage complete lifecycle
operations, including provisioning and de-provisioning resources, instead of needing to
issue a trouble ticket or perform the activity manually.
Results
Using Cisco’s products and solutions, NESIC’s data center team can single-handedly
provide the required infrastructure services within minutes allowing their cloud teams
to focus on developing new services and innovative projects. With Cisco UCS Director,
NESIC is expected to reduce overall operations costs that can fund new cloud services.
provide the required infrastructure services within minutes allowing their cloud teams
to focus on developing new services and innovative projects. With Cisco UCS Director,
NESIC is expected to reduce overall operations costs that can fund new cloud services.
“There are many costs associated with cloud services—including hardware, rack, and
power—but labor expenses always accounted for a large portion of the costs,” says Matsuda.
“With Cisco solutions, we should be able to expand into large-scale services and develop
new products much more easily without increasing staff.”
power—but labor expenses always accounted for a large portion of the costs,” says Matsuda.
“With Cisco solutions, we should be able to expand into large-scale services and develop
new products much more easily without increasing staff.”
Next Steps
“After experiencing the Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers for ourselves, we realized what
an incredible product it is,” says Matsuda. “In the future, we plan to use the skills gained
constructing our internal cloud environment to expand our business as system integrators
with Cisco.” By introducing more people to the Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers, NESIC
plans to continue evolving its ICT infrastructure and business methods into the cloud age.
an incredible product it is,” says Matsuda. “In the future, we plan to use the skills gained
constructing our internal cloud environment to expand our business as system integrators
with Cisco.” By introducing more people to the Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers, NESIC
plans to continue evolving its ICT infrastructure and business methods into the cloud age.