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Support Unpredictability
Many analysts and executives recognize that IT managers
are being asked to support a diverse range of scenarios—
and your business likely has or will soon incorporate
applications across the spectrum. Although your IT staff
may be efficient at creating and maintaining traditional
data center environments with repeatable processes,
your organization may not be prepared to support the
unpredictability associated with innovative and sometimes
disruptive new applications and business services.
are being asked to support a diverse range of scenarios—
and your business likely has or will soon incorporate
applications across the spectrum. Although your IT staff
may be efficient at creating and maintaining traditional
data center environments with repeatable processes,
your organization may not be prepared to support the
unpredictability associated with innovative and sometimes
disruptive new applications and business services.
Consistent Solution Portfolio
Our Cisco UCS Management product portfolio lets
you abandon single-purpose solutions and move to a
common infrastructure and management platform that
can easily support a continuum of traditional applications
and cloud-based solutions. Management is consistent
across the portfolio, giving you a foundation and set of
flexible systems that you can use in multiple modes of
operation, including standard data center operations
(Mode 1) and cloud-based initiatives (Mode 2). These
solutions can be composed of multiple individual blade
and rack servers,
you abandon single-purpose solutions and move to a
common infrastructure and management platform that
can easily support a continuum of traditional applications
and cloud-based solutions. Management is consistent
across the portfolio, giving you a foundation and set of
flexible systems that you can use in multiple modes of
operation, including standard data center operations
(Mode 1) and cloud-based initiatives (Mode 2). These
solutions can be composed of multiple individual blade
and rack servers,
, and hyperconverged infrastructure,
including
. This range gives
you the flexibility to use existing methodologies or move
to DevOps methods and microservices to boost agility
and innovation.
to DevOps methods and microservices to boost agility
and innovation.
Because our solutions are designed to work and be
managed together, you can deploy your typical data
center applications, client-server software, email, and
other day-to-day environments alongside new types
of applications that run in the cloud to support the
digitization of business processes in a mobile-centric
world. Best of all, you can manage the underlying
systems, preconfigured environments, and composable
infrastructure using a single management framework
managed together, you can deploy your typical data
center applications, client-server software, email, and
other day-to-day environments alongside new types
of applications that run in the cloud to support the
digitization of business processes in a mobile-centric
world. Best of all, you can manage the underlying
systems, preconfigured environments, and composable
infrastructure using a single management framework
that makes it easy for you to adapt, scale, and iterate
solutions without duplicating effort or creating shadow
IT organizations.
solutions without duplicating effort or creating shadow
IT organizations.
Comprehensive Infrastructure Orchestration and
Management
Management
can be added to Cisco UCS
Management to provide comprehensive infrastructure
orchestration and management. Through a workflow-
based interface, it can provision all your data center
computing infrastructure: Cisco Nexus® switches,
storage systems from the leading storage vendors,
and many third-party servers and switches. Cisco
orchestration and management. Through a workflow-
based interface, it can provision all your data center
computing infrastructure: Cisco Nexus® switches,
storage systems from the leading storage vendors,
and many third-party servers and switches. Cisco
UCS Director is the management framework for our
converged infrastructure solutions. It can quickly and
accurately provision applications and also decommission
them with no risk of leaving resources stranded and
unaccounted for. With
converged infrastructure solutions. It can quickly and
accurately provision applications and also decommission
them with no risk of leaving resources stranded and
unaccounted for. With
(Cisco ACI™), you can provision both
your server and your network resources with policy-
based automated provisioning. Through the software’s
self-service portal, your administrators and clients can
provision their own infrastructure on demand, making
Cisco UCS Director
based automated provisioning. Through the software’s
self-service portal, your administrators and clients can
provision their own infrastructure on demand, making
Cisco UCS Director
(IaaS).
Common System and Management Framework
Remote- and
Branch-Office
Environments
Traditional
Virtualized
Environments
Preconfigured
Application
Environments
Virtualized,
Containerized,
and Bare-Metal
Environments
Big Data
Environments
Web-Scale
Environments
Cisco UCS
Mini
Cisco UCS
B-Series Blade
Servers
Cisco Converged
Infrastructure
Solutions
Cisco UCS
C-Series Rack
Servers
Cisco UCS
M-Series
Modular Systems
Single Unified System | Single Management Model
Data Center
Edge
Web Scale
Cisco HyperFlex
Systems
VersaStack
vBlock
SmartStack
FlexPod
Cisco UCS Management gives you a single
management model for your entire data center.