Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 White Paper
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service
December 2015
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servers, virtual machines, services, and applications. Administrators can establish
an orchestration workflow as a catalog item in the service portal. Users can request
infrastructure through the portal and can customize the request to fit their needs.
Cisco UCS Director can add approval and budget validation steps to the ordering
process if needed. The provisioning workflow includes the following stages:
an orchestration workflow as a catalog item in the service portal. Users can request
infrastructure through the portal and can customize the request to fit their needs.
Cisco UCS Director can add approval and budget validation steps to the ordering
process if needed. The provisioning workflow includes the following stages:
• Initiation: Initiate the service request.
• Resource allocation: Allocate the resources required for physical or virtual
• Resource allocation: Allocate the resources required for physical or virtual
machine, network, and storage provisioning.
• Approval: The request is sent to an appropriate authority for approval, depending
on whether it is part of the workflow.
• Provision: The infrastructure is provisioned.
• Set up lifecycle schedule: The availability and termination time of the
• Set up lifecycle schedule: The availability and termination time of the
infrastructure resources are scheduled.
• Notify: An email notice is sent to the user stating that the infrastructure has been
provisioned.
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Integration
When you use Cisco UCS Director to manage Cisco ACI, you get application-ready
infrastructure that makes better use of your IT resources, reduces time to revenue,
improves compliance, and quickly aligns IT infrastructure with business operations.
Cisco UCS Director enables you to define an application container through the APIC.
This controller uses your policies to create a secure tenant environment to contain
the application, endpoint groups to contain application components, and contracts
to enable communication between them. After the network environment has been
prepared, Cisco UCS Director provisions the physical and virtual computing and
storage infrastructure that resides in the application container. Cisco UCS Director
can facilitate final provisioning by initializing storage volumes with appropriate golden
images. With point-and-click simplicity, you deliver application-centric IT IaaS
through a single interface (Figure 4).
infrastructure that makes better use of your IT resources, reduces time to revenue,
improves compliance, and quickly aligns IT infrastructure with business operations.
Cisco UCS Director enables you to define an application container through the APIC.
This controller uses your policies to create a secure tenant environment to contain
the application, endpoint groups to contain application components, and contracts
to enable communication between them. After the network environment has been
prepared, Cisco UCS Director provisions the physical and virtual computing and
storage infrastructure that resides in the application container. Cisco UCS Director
can facilitate final provisioning by initializing storage volumes with appropriate golden
images. With point-and-click simplicity, you deliver application-centric IT IaaS
through a single interface (Figure 4).
Open XML API and REST API for Integration with Other Management Platforms
Cisco UCS Director has an open XML API and a REST API that can be used to
access the capabilities of Cisco UCS Director with higher-level management
platforms. These APIs can also be used to extend the capabilities of Cisco UCS
access the capabilities of Cisco UCS Director with higher-level management
platforms. These APIs can also be used to extend the capabilities of Cisco UCS
Figure 3. The Self-Service Portal Gives Users What They Need with a Quick Response