Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Dépliant
The Value of Infrastructure Automation
with Cisco UCS Director
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management and tracking that enables
you to bill for your services (Figure 1).
you to bill for your services (Figure 1).
Cisco UCS Director helps you deliver IT
infrastructure through a single interface
with point-and-click simplicity. A self-
service portal lets administrators and
trusted clients quickly request and
receive the infrastructure they need,
whether it is physical or virtual. It
supports heterogeneous environments,
so you can use Cisco UCS Director to
automate a range of different specific
technology stacks.
infrastructure through a single interface
with point-and-click simplicity. A self-
service portal lets administrators and
trusted clients quickly request and
receive the infrastructure they need,
whether it is physical or virtual. It
supports heterogeneous environments,
so you can use Cisco UCS Director to
automate a range of different specific
technology stacks.
Cisco UCS Director is role and policy
based, so your subject-matter experts
can work together to define your
policies and best practices once. Then,
any level of administrator can use the
policies to provision resources for
clients. For example:
based, so your subject-matter experts
can work together to define your
policies and best practices once. Then,
any level of administrator can use the
policies to provision resources for
clients. For example:
• Network engineers define the
VLANs and network configurations
for specific groups and applications.
for specific groups and applications.
• Storage engineers define data
protection and SAN configurations.
• Server administrators define
allowable resource configurations
and pools.
and pools.
• Virtualization administrators
define the characteristics of virtual
machines that can be created on
demand.
machines that can be created on
demand.
Policies are implemented with
workflows that automate the entire
application lifecycle, including resource
allocation, provisioning, monitoring, and
management, and that allow resources
to be reclaimed when they are no
workflows that automate the entire
application lifecycle, including resource
allocation, provisioning, monitoring, and
management, and that allow resources
to be reclaimed when they are no
longer needed. The product comes
with more than 500 predefined tasks
that you can combine into workflows.
Cisco UCS Director lets you test
workflows, and it is designed so that
workflows are completed successfully
or not at all.
with more than 500 predefined tasks
that you can combine into workflows.
Cisco UCS Director lets you test
workflows, and it is designed so that
workflows are completed successfully
or not at all.
Accelerate Time to Revenue
We’ve been listening to customers
who tell us how long it takes to
deploy applications. Even virtualized
applications take time: physical storage
needs to be deployed for virtual disks,
and physical components and the
network need to be configured. They
require interaction between subject-
matter experts, which tends to progress
slowly over weeks.
who tell us how long it takes to
deploy applications. Even virtualized
applications take time: physical storage
needs to be deployed for virtual disks,
and physical components and the
network need to be configured. They
require interaction between subject-
matter experts, which tends to progress
slowly over weeks.
Imagine deploying applications and
have them generating revenue for you
have them generating revenue for you
in minutes rather than days or weeks.
One Cisco service provider customer
reported that Cisco UCS Director
helped the organization shorten its
deployment time from 2 weeks to
One Cisco service provider customer
reported that Cisco UCS Director
helped the organization shorten its
deployment time from 2 weeks to
Virtual
Machines
Computing
Virtualized and Bare-Metal
Secure Cloud Container
Policy-Based
Provisioning
On-Demand
Automated Delivery
Domain
Managers
Single-Pane Management
End-to-End
Automation and
Lifecycle Management
Cisco UCS Director
OS and
Virtual
Machines
Servers and Hypervisor
Computing
Network and Services
Networking
Storage
Networking
Storage
APP
OS
APP
OS
Bare
Metal
VM
VM
Tenant
B
Tenant
C
Tenant
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Figure 1. Cisco UCS Director Delivers Comprehensive Infrastructure Management and
Orchestration
Orchestration
Earn Revenue Sooner
“Before, creating every virtual machine
required efforts from specialists in
Cisco UCS, Nexus®, NetApp, or
VMware. Now, after we’re created a
template for a certain type of server,
Cisco UCS Director automatically
provisions all components end-to-
end. Our customers can start using
cloud resources sooner, and we start
earning revenues sooner.”
Pablo Lambert
Director of Innovation and Development
Entel
Director of Innovation and Development
Entel