Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 White Paper
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service
December 2015
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The result is secure and elastic cloud capacity, lower costs, and fast access to
resources. With private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, you have the
flexibility to source IT services based on your business needs, IT requirements,
and desired consumption models. With Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite, your
organization becomes a broker of services, with the capability to oversee workload
movement, application management, security, and compliance across private and
public cloud domains and deliver the desired business scalability, cost-effective
benefits, and innovation.
resources. With private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, you have the
flexibility to source IT services based on your business needs, IT requirements,
and desired consumption models. With Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite, your
organization becomes a broker of services, with the capability to oversee workload
movement, application management, security, and compliance across private and
public cloud domains and deliver the desired business scalability, cost-effective
benefits, and innovation.
No Support for Private and Hybrid Cloud Deployment from HPE OneView
OneView does not support private or hybrid cloud deployments. If you choose
to support a private or hybrid cloud with HPE software, you have two choices:
OpenStack or Microsoft Azure. With that limitation, you have several more software
products to license and deploy.
to support a private or hybrid cloud with HPE software, you have two choices:
OpenStack or Microsoft Azure. With that limitation, you have several more software
products to license and deploy.
HPE CloudSystem Foundation is the HPE product for basic private cloud IaaS.
CloudSystem Foundation is based on Helion OpenStack. OneView is not included in
HPE CloudSystem Foundation. You must upgrade to HPE CloudSystem Enterprise,
which includes HPE Cloud Service Automation, to have even loose integration with
OneView.
CloudSystem Foundation is based on Helion OpenStack. OneView is not included in
HPE CloudSystem Foundation. You must upgrade to HPE CloudSystem Enterprise,
which includes HPE Cloud Service Automation, to have even loose integration with
OneView.
Heterogeneous Infrastructure Support
A management solution that works with only a limited portion of one vendor’s
products in your data center has many restrictions. An IaaS and orchestration
solution needs to work with most, if not all, the infrastructure in your data center.
products in your data center has many restrictions. An IaaS and orchestration
solution needs to work with most, if not all, the infrastructure in your data center.
Cisco UCS Director has broad support for both Cisco and third-party hardware,
including:
including:
• Industry-leading hardware and virtualization vendors
• Servers: HP, IBM (Lenovo), and Dell
• Storage: EMC, Hitachi, IBM, NetApp, and Nimble Storage
• Operating systems and virtualization: VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Red Hat
• Different platforms
• Cisco UCS Integrated infrastructure, also known as converged infrastructure,
• Storage: EMC, Hitachi, IBM, NetApp, and Nimble Storage
• Operating systems and virtualization: VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Red Hat
• Different platforms
• Cisco UCS Integrated infrastructure, also known as converged infrastructure,
which is a packaged solution consisting of server, networking, and shared
storage as a preintegrated stack, including:
storage as a preintegrated stack, including:
- FlexPod: Cisco UCS and NetApp FAS storage
- VCE Vblock: Cisco UCS and EMC storage
- SmartStack: Cisco UCS and Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash storage
- VersaStack: Cisco UCS and IBM storage
- Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP): Cisco UCS and Hitachi storage
• Hyperconverged infrastructure, which consists of tightly integrated computing,