Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 White Paper
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Application Infrastructure on Demand with Cisco UCS Director and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
March 2015
Benefits of Providing Application Infrastructure on
Demand
The combination of Cisco UCS Director and Cisco ACI delivers complete application
infrastructure lifecycle orchestration and management:
infrastructure lifecycle orchestration and management:
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Standardization simplifies and reduces the number of use cases that your
organization must support, reducing OpEx. When standardization covers most
of your client use cases, fewer clients need individualized configurations, which
require design time. In cases in which individualized configurations are necessary,
your administrators often can modify an existing application profile rather than
having to build one from the beginning, saving both administration time and
shortening time-to-value.
organization must support, reducing OpEx. When standardization covers most
of your client use cases, fewer clients need individualized configurations, which
require design time. In cases in which individualized configurations are necessary,
your administrators often can modify an existing application profile rather than
having to build one from the beginning, saving both administration time and
shortening time-to-value.
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Automation accelerates application infrastructure deployment so that you can
begin to provide value to your clients more quickly than ever before. If your
clients are developers, they are empowered to provision and decommission
development environments at a pace as fast as today’s agile programming
processes. If your clients are application administrators, they can more quickly
deploy applications and begin providing services to your customers in support of
your business.
begin to provide value to your clients more quickly than ever before. If your
clients are developers, they are empowered to provision and decommission
development environments at a pace as fast as today’s agile programming
processes. If your clients are application administrators, they can more quickly
deploy applications and begin providing services to your customers in support of
your business.
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Massive scalability of the Cisco ACI network fabric enables almost any resource
in your data center to be recruited to run an application. Because the leaf-
and-spine architecture has high east-west scalability and can connect a large
number of devices in a single switching domain, your applications no longer
must be contained in a single deployment unit, such as a rack, row, or pod. This
new model increases your resource utilization and eliminates the stranding of
resources.
in your data center to be recruited to run an application. Because the leaf-
and-spine architecture has high east-west scalability and can connect a large
number of devices in a single switching domain, your applications no longer
must be contained in a single deployment unit, such as a rack, row, or pod. This
new model increases your resource utilization and eliminates the stranding of
resources.
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Application-centric infrastructure defines network and application containers
that are defined in terms that application developers understand, limiting the
miscommunication that can result in unexpected network errors and security
vulnerabilities. Even the responsibilities of network administrator are reduced.
Because Cisco ACI encapsulates every EPG and its communication in VXLAN
tunnels, name space conflicts and the errors that can occur when administrators
attempt to track resources such as VLAN tags on spreadsheets are eliminated.
that are defined in terms that application developers understand, limiting the
miscommunication that can result in unexpected network errors and security
vulnerabilities. Even the responsibilities of network administrator are reduced.
Because Cisco ACI encapsulates every EPG and its communication in VXLAN
tunnels, name space conflicts and the errors that can occur when administrators
attempt to track resources such as VLAN tags on spreadsheets are eliminated.
•
Healthy applications meet SLAs and provide dynamic reconfiguration of
infrastructure to remediate any performance-related problems. Cisco ACI
provides visibility from the software overlay network into the physical network that
no other vendor can offer. This deep visibility allows the solution to provide insight
into operational characteristics to help guide workload placement decisions
and dynamic reconfiguration choices as the workload across your infrastructure
changes.
infrastructure to remediate any performance-related problems. Cisco ACI
provides visibility from the software overlay network into the physical network that
no other vendor can offer. This deep visibility allows the solution to provide insight
into operational characteristics to help guide workload placement decisions
and dynamic reconfiguration choices as the workload across your infrastructure
changes.
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Investment protection is a hallmark of Cisco products. Cisco provides a path for
you to migrate existing workloads that operate in other environments to your new
Cisco ACI networks, helping you more effectively use your existing infrastructure
and migrate to a Cisco ACI approach on your own time schedule.
you to migrate existing workloads that operate in other environments to your new
Cisco ACI networks, helping you more effectively use your existing infrastructure
and migrate to a Cisco ACI approach on your own time schedule.