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
• With Cisco ACI, enables the creation of application infrastructure containers that
contain the appropriate network services as well as supporting infrastructure
components for each respective application
components for each respective application
• Uses resource groups to match the infrastructure resources required to support
an application-specific service level; resource groups help you create virtual
pods, in which resources can be grouped to support different classes of service
in each virtual pod
pods, in which resources can be grouped to support different classes of service
in each virtual pod
The power of this combination of technologies comes from the way in which Cisco
ACI and UCS Director deliver the appropriate network services and infrastructure
resources in predefined infrastructure containers.
ACI and UCS Director deliver the appropriate network services and infrastructure
resources in predefined infrastructure containers.
Introducing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
Cisco ACI is an innovative architecture that radically simplifies, optimizes, and
accelerates the entire application deployment lifecycle. Cisco ACI redefines the
power of IT, enabling the organization to be more responsive to changing business
and application needs, enhance agility, and add business value.
Cisco ACI is an innovative architecture that radically simplifies, optimizes, and
accelerates the entire application deployment lifecycle. Cisco ACI redefines the
power of IT, enabling the organization to be more responsive to changing business
and application needs, enhance agility, and add business value.
The network architecture of Cisco ACI is based on a leaf-and-spine configuration
using Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches. This leaf-and-spine architecture delivers
considerable east-west scalability while maintaining low network latency. All network
traffic passing through the Cisco ACI fabric is encapsulated so that every connection
between servers, virtual machines, storage, and appliances is securely isolated from
other connections or applications. Cisco ACI provides complete visibility and control
over virtual-to-physical network mapping for instantaneous health monitoring,
debugging, and dynamic reconfiguration around congestion points that usually
cause bottlenecks (Figure 2).
using Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches. This leaf-and-spine architecture delivers
considerable east-west scalability while maintaining low network latency. All network
traffic passing through the Cisco ACI fabric is encapsulated so that every connection
between servers, virtual machines, storage, and appliances is securely isolated from
other connections or applications. Cisco ACI provides complete visibility and control
over virtual-to-physical network mapping for instantaneous health monitoring,
debugging, and dynamic reconfiguration around congestion points that usually
cause bottlenecks (Figure 2).
Virtual
Machines
Computing
Virtualized and Bare-Metal
Secure Cloud Container
Policy-Based
Provisioning
On-Demand
Automated Delivery
Domain
Managers
Single-Pane Management
End-to-End
Automation and
Lifecycle Management
Cisco UCS Director
OS and
Virtual
Machines
Servers and Hypervisor
Computing
Network and Services
Networking
Storage
Networking
Storage
APP
OS
APP
OS
Bare
Metal
VM
VM
Tenant
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Tenant
C
Tenant
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Figure 1. Cisco UCS Director Delivers Comprehensive Infrastructure Management and
Orchestration
Orchestration