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Benefits

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Manage infrastructure as code to help

ensure that applications and services

can be rapidly and safely deployed

in your production environment.

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Facilitate continuous delivery by helping

to eliminate configuration drift and

ensuring a standardized environment for

the business applications and services.

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Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by

automating and orchestrating many routine

tasks, improving resource utilization, and

proactively preventing manual errors.

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Transition to DevOps and additional

automation through integration with a wide

range of existing management tools.

Infrastructure as Code

A growing number of organizations are adopting a DevOps methodology, in which

development, testing, and IT operations teams collaborate more closely and processes

are automated and orchestrated to achieve greater efficiency. The Cisco Unified

Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) management framework can help your organization

transition from your current environment to a more efficient, DevOps-friendly

architecture, because everything is programmable.

Cisco UCS management includes four main technology innovations that treat

infrastructure as code (IaC), so you can more easily define the desired state of the

infrastructure and what you want to do with it. These four innovations provide the

foundation for automated infrastructure management by making the infrastructure

programmable:

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Software object model: Hardware is not configured manually in Cisco UCS. Instead,

every identity and configuration setting for every device in the system is defined in

software through policies and service profiles. This data model helps ensure that

configurations are consistent and enable simple implementation of changes at scale.

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API-centric approach: The unified system control plane is accessible through a fully

documented and open API.

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Virtual interface card (VIC): All network and SAN adapters are software defined, but

they present themselves to the bare-metal OS or hypervisor as physical devices.

Cisco UCS
Programmability

Cisco UCS Programmability

At a Glance

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