Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 White Paper
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service
December 2015
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Although OneView automates deployment of some of HPE’s product portfolio, Cisco
UCS Director comes with a toolbox of predefined tasks that you can combine to
create workflows that not only direct Cisco UCS to apply Cisco Unified Computing
System™ (Cisco UCS) service profiles, but also to provision other third-party servers
in your data center, access-layer switching infrastructure, storage configuration,
and operating system and hypervisor configuration. With this approach, your entire
infrastructure is provisioned according to the policies that your subject-matter
experts define. And after you have created these workflows, you can use them over
and over to automate deployments, saving both time and money (Figure 2).
UCS Director comes with a toolbox of predefined tasks that you can combine to
create workflows that not only direct Cisco UCS to apply Cisco Unified Computing
System™ (Cisco UCS) service profiles, but also to provision other third-party servers
in your data center, access-layer switching infrastructure, storage configuration,
and operating system and hypervisor configuration. With this approach, your entire
infrastructure is provisioned according to the policies that your subject-matter
experts define. And after you have created these workflows, you can use them over
and over to automate deployments, saving both time and money (Figure 2).
Limited Orchestration and Automation with HPE Software
In HPE software, to accomplish the orchestration and automation tasks that are
integral capabilities in Cisco UCS Director, you need to augment OneView with
HPE Operations Orchestration software. This software manages only a subset of
HPE’s hardware products—not the entire product portfolio. HPE’s orchestration uses
templates that can be applied to hardware components, instead of workflows that
integral capabilities in Cisco UCS Director, you need to augment OneView with
HPE Operations Orchestration software. This software manages only a subset of
HPE’s hardware products—not the entire product portfolio. HPE’s orchestration uses
templates that can be applied to hardware components, instead of workflows that
allow the entire deployment and management processes to be automated. HPE
software does not orchestrate the establishment of virtualization layers, leaving that
process as a manual task. Also, OneView does not support installation of operating
systems on your platform. For that, you must install HPE Server Provisioner—yet
another software bundle that you need to purchase, install, configure, and manage.
software does not orchestrate the establishment of virtualization layers, leaving that
process as a manual task. Also, OneView does not support installation of operating
systems on your platform. For that, you must install HPE Server Provisioner—yet
another software bundle that you need to purchase, install, configure, and manage.
The HPE Image Streamer option will be available when the new HPE Synergy 12000
system ships in 2QCY16. This option works with Synergy Composer to configure
private-cloud-ready images for VMware ESXi and Docker-enabled Linux images
on Synergy systems only. HPE, in its “HPE Synergy Composer QuickSpecs,” makes
these claims:
system ships in 2QCY16. This option works with Synergy Composer to configure
private-cloud-ready images for VMware ESXi and Docker-enabled Linux images
on Synergy systems only. HPE, in its “HPE Synergy Composer QuickSpecs,” makes
these claims:
VMs
Compute
Virtualized and Bare-Metal
Secure Cloud Container
Policy-Driven
Provisioning
On-Demand
Automated Delivery
Domain
Managers
Single Pane of Glass
End-to-End
Automation and
Lifecycle Management
UCS Director
OS and
Virtual
Machines
Compute and Hypervisor
Compute
Network and Services
Network
Storage
Network
Storage
App
OS
App
OS
Bare
Metal
VM
VM
Tenant
B
Tenant
C
Tenant
A
B
C
A
Figure 2. Cisco UCS Director Delivers Comprehensive Infrastructure Automation and
Management
Management