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
for production environments and include thick-provisioned storage and bare-metal
servers for performance without compromise.
servers for performance without compromise.
After your resources and services are deployed, you can monitor your application
infrastructure with real-time health scores, dynamically reconfigure your network
if necessary to meet your performance goals, and obtain resource consumption
information that can be used for charging clients.
infrastructure with real-time health scores, dynamically reconfigure your network
if necessary to meet your performance goals, and obtain resource consumption
information that can be used for charging clients.
Cisco UCS Director in conjunction with Cisco ACI also provides complete application
infrastructure lifecycle management, returning resources to their respective free
pools and eliminating stranded resources.
infrastructure lifecycle management, returning resources to their respective free
pools and eliminating stranded resources.
Self-Service Portal
After you have defined or adopted a set of application profiles, you can make them
available to clients in a service catalog visible in the self-service portal. Your clients
can log into Cisco UCS Director’s self-service portal, view the service catalog
published by your organization, and order infrastructure as desired. The application
profiles you define can be parameterized so that clients can provide attributes
during the ordering process to customize infrastructure to meet specific needs.
For example, clients can be allowed to specify the number of servers deployed in
various application infrastructure tiers or the amount of storage allocated to each
database server.
After you have defined or adopted a set of application profiles, you can make them
available to clients in a service catalog visible in the self-service portal. Your clients
can log into Cisco UCS Director’s self-service portal, view the service catalog
published by your organization, and order infrastructure as desired. The application
profiles you define can be parameterized so that clients can provide attributes
during the ordering process to customize infrastructure to meet specific needs.
For example, clients can be allowed to specify the number of servers deployed in
various application infrastructure tiers or the amount of storage allocated to each
database server.
After your clients have placed their orders, they can monitor the status of application
infrastructure orders, view the progress of application infrastructure deployment, and
perform lifecycle management tasks.
infrastructure orders, view the progress of application infrastructure deployment, and
perform lifecycle management tasks.
Prepare Your Service Catalog
To provide application infrastructure as a service to your clients, you must prepare
a service catalog. You need to establish a secure multitenant environment and
manage resources for your clients, prepare application profiles, and make these
services available to your clients through the self-service portal. This section
describes these steps.
a service catalog. You need to establish a secure multitenant environment and
manage resources for your clients, prepare application profiles, and make these
services available to your clients through the self-service portal. This section
describes these steps.
Establish Secure Multitenancy
Cisco UCS Director and Cisco ACI work together to automate tenant setup,
eliminating manual steps that can result in delays and configuration errors.
Secure multitenancy provides infrastructure to each client in the same way that a
service provider provides dedicated infrastructure for each customer—only in this
environment, the allocation of both physical and virtual infrastructure is automated.
Cisco UCS Director and Cisco ACI work together to automate tenant setup,
eliminating manual steps that can result in delays and configuration errors.
Secure multitenancy provides infrastructure to each client in the same way that a
service provider provides dedicated infrastructure for each customer—only in this
environment, the allocation of both physical and virtual infrastructure is automated.
Cisco UCS Director maintains an inventory of all the physical and virtual resources
under its control, and it can partition this infrastructure into different secure
multitenant containers. To onboard a tenant, you define the set of resources that
the tenant should have, and Cisco UCS Director creates a set of secure, isolated
physical and virtual resources that clients can then use to build their own application
infrastructure.
under its control, and it can partition this infrastructure into different secure
multitenant containers. To onboard a tenant, you define the set of resources that
the tenant should have, and Cisco UCS Director creates a set of secure, isolated
physical and virtual resources that clients can then use to build their own application
infrastructure.
Using resource groups in Cisco UCS Director, you can automate the process of
matching physical or virtual resources to applications so that your tenants can easily
matching physical or virtual resources to applications so that your tenants can easily