Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 White Paper
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service
December 2015
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“Image Streamer provides a highly-available appliance pair that can capture/
edit/store images, create stateless boot images, and deploy or update compute
modules quickly. Profiles are combined with golden images and personalities
for stateless operation. Stateless boot images are stored in an image repository
for fast implementation onto compute hardware at any time. These stateless
capabilities can deploy and/or update multiple compute nodes with extreme
speed.”
edit/store images, create stateless boot images, and deploy or update compute
modules quickly. Profiles are combined with golden images and personalities
for stateless operation. Stateless boot images are stored in an image repository
for fast implementation onto compute hardware at any time. These stateless
capabilities can deploy and/or update multiple compute nodes with extreme
speed.”
Automating Big Data Deployment
As you consider big data solutions to meet your growing data and business needs,
operational challenges can emerge. Despite the compelling business advantages,
Hadoop clusters can be difficult, complex, and time consuming to deploy. Moreover,
with the volume of your data increasing rapidly, you need to find efficient ways to
consistently deploy and scale your cluster.
operational challenges can emerge. Despite the compelling business advantages,
Hadoop clusters can be difficult, complex, and time consuming to deploy. Moreover,
with the volume of your data increasing rapidly, you need to find efficient ways to
consistently deploy and scale your cluster.
Cisco UCS Director greatly simplifies this process with a single-touch solution that
automates deployment of Hadoop on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big
Data, a predefined converged-infrastructure solution from Cisco created and tested
specifically to meet the needs of big data environments. It also provides a single
management pane across both physical infrastructure and Hadoop software. All
infrastructure components are handled automatically, with little need for user input.
Through this approach, configuration of physical computing, internal storage, and
networking infrastructure is integrated with the deployment of operating systems,
Java packages, and Hadoop along with the provisioning of Hadoop services.
Cisco UCS Director is integrated with industry-leading Hadoop distributions from
Cloudera, MapR, and Hortonworks. It complements and communicates with Hadoop
managers, providing a systemwide perspective that enables administrators to
correlate Hadoop activity with network and computing activity on individual Hadoop
nodes.
automates deployment of Hadoop on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big
Data, a predefined converged-infrastructure solution from Cisco created and tested
specifically to meet the needs of big data environments. It also provides a single
management pane across both physical infrastructure and Hadoop software. All
infrastructure components are handled automatically, with little need for user input.
Through this approach, configuration of physical computing, internal storage, and
networking infrastructure is integrated with the deployment of operating systems,
Java packages, and Hadoop along with the provisioning of Hadoop services.
Cisco UCS Director is integrated with industry-leading Hadoop distributions from
Cloudera, MapR, and Hortonworks. It complements and communicates with Hadoop
managers, providing a systemwide perspective that enables administrators to
correlate Hadoop activity with network and computing activity on individual Hadoop
nodes.
No Big Data Support with HPE OneView
OneView does not help you deploy or manage HPE’s big data solutions. It also does
not support HPE’s primary big data platforms: HPE ConvergedSystem 500 (CS500),
CS900, and CS300 for Microsoft Analytics Platform (CS300 for APS). HPE offers
software that is licensed separately and is completely decoupled from all its other
management software.
not support HPE’s primary big data platforms: HPE ConvergedSystem 500 (CS500),
CS900, and CS300 for Microsoft Analytics Platform (CS300 for APS). HPE offers
software that is licensed separately and is completely decoupled from all its other
management software.
Private and Hybrid Cloud Deployments
Today, most IT organizations are expected to support private and hybrid clouds.
Cisco UCS Director helps enable you to create a private, multitenant IaaS cloud.
When Cisco UCS Director is used as part of the Cisco ONE™ Enterprise Cloud
Suite, Cisco Prime™ Service Catalog and Cisco Intercloud Fabric transparently
extend private cloud workloads, on demand, to public or provider-hosted cloud
environments. To protect your business governance policies and meet service-
level agreements (SLAs), Cisco Intercloud Fabric delivers highly secure and flexible
workload placement across any hypervisor or service provider, extending to the
public cloud the same network security and access control policies that you have in
your private cloud.
Cisco UCS Director helps enable you to create a private, multitenant IaaS cloud.
When Cisco UCS Director is used as part of the Cisco ONE™ Enterprise Cloud
Suite, Cisco Prime™ Service Catalog and Cisco Intercloud Fabric transparently
extend private cloud workloads, on demand, to public or provider-hosted cloud
environments. To protect your business governance policies and meet service-
level agreements (SLAs), Cisco Intercloud Fabric delivers highly secure and flexible
workload placement across any hypervisor or service provider, extending to the
public cloud the same network security and access control policies that you have in
your private cloud.