Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Leaflet
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You run applications to help your business earn revenue. And you understand
that every application is different and has different infrastructure requirements.
We offer the intelligence to easily and automatically provision physical and virtual
infrastructure uniquely for each application. Now your infrastructure is optimized
from top to bottom, with every application, client, and tenant securely separated
from all the others. This document shows you how Cisco UCS® Director can
manage Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to make this vision a reality
in your data center.
that every application is different and has different infrastructure requirements.
We offer the intelligence to easily and automatically provision physical and virtual
infrastructure uniquely for each application. Now your infrastructure is optimized
from top to bottom, with every application, client, and tenant securely separated
from all the others. This document shows you how Cisco UCS® Director can
manage Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to make this vision a reality
in your data center.
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
Cisco ACI sees the network through the lens of applications. It is a holistic network
architecture with centralized automation and policy-based application profiles. Cisco
ACI delivers virtual network flexibility with the scalability of hardware performance.
Application profiles define groups of application components (endpoint groups)
and the ways they are allowed to communicate (contracts). It establishes secure
multitenant environments for your applications, and it does so with dramatically
lower capital expenditures and operating expenses.
architecture with centralized automation and policy-based application profiles. Cisco
ACI delivers virtual network flexibility with the scalability of hardware performance.
Application profiles define groups of application components (endpoint groups)
and the ways they are allowed to communicate (contracts). It establishes secure
multitenant environments for your applications, and it does so with dramatically
lower capital expenditures and operating expenses.
Massive Scale Without Silos
The industry moved on from application silos long ago. But infrastructure silos
still exist in almost every data center. Whether your traditional environments are
deployed one rack, pod, or row at a time, chances are good that the network limits
the locations at which you can easily deploy application components.
The industry moved on from application silos long ago. But infrastructure silos
still exist in almost every data center. Whether your traditional environments are
deployed one rack, pod, or row at a time, chances are good that the network limits
the locations at which you can easily deploy application components.
Solution Brief
May 2014
Highlights
Cisco Understands
• We know the challenges of running
applications, and we help align IT with
your business by fully automating
and orchestrating your application
lifecycle.
Applications on Demand
• We combine Cisco® Application
Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and
Cisco UCS® Director for single-
pane management for all your
infrastructure, including networking,
computing, and storage resources.
Simplified Operations
• We simplify operations with role- and
policy-based orchestration that allows
workloads to be placed anywhere in
your data center without concern for
network boundaries.
Massive Scale
• We provide networking technology
to unite your entire data center with
a single fabric, with investment
protection that lets you migrate on
your schedule, smoothly and without
disruption.
Increased Business Agility
• The result is a more agile, efficient
data center with lower cost and risk—
and a path that takes you to the next
step toward delivery of platform as a
service (PaaS) to your customers.