Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Information Guide

Ensure manageable data centers

Over time Cegal has used Cisco® data center’s products, such as switches
and routers. The upgrade included installing Cisco Unified Computing
System™ (Cisco UCS®) blade servers. To have Cisco provide integrated
management across the complete data stack was an important advantage.

“Cisco got skilled technicians to answer our questions,” says Jan Livar
Espeland, Senior IT Architect. “The products were easy to understand, but
we did need clarification on some matters and Cisco provided top notch
customer service.”

Improve control with an unbroken view

Cisco UCS Director and Manager is easy to control and provides an unbroken
view across all data centers in Norway and the Netherlands. It further
supports 750 IT applications and 120 clients.

With Cisco UCS Director it’s easy to apply upgrades at the push of a button,
moving server workloads without touching the hardware. From day one Cegal
experienced improved control, especially when performing a live migration of
1500 virtual servers from the old infrastructure to the new Cisco system.

Improve ways of acquiring and installing

The servers were installed with help from Cisco partner Datametrix, and
Cegal made use of Cisco Capital® financing for the purchase.

• Cisco UCS blade servers for improved performance

and agility

• Cisco UCS Director for automated IT operations
• Cisco UCS rack mounted servers for high-end VDI

workstations with 3D graphics

Solutions

Each server hosts up to

virtual machines.