Cisco Cisco UCS Director 5.5 Dépliant
Solution Overview
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Comprehensive VCE Vblock Management with
Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director
What You Will Learn
Chief information officers (CIOs) and IT managers are looking for ways to create real IT transformation that can
enhance business agility and data center responsiveness. But this transformation requires IT organizations to
build more flexible infrastructure to support a service orientation across the data center.
Organizations are shifting from siloed IT architecture models to converged infrastructure solutions that
preintegrate computing, network, and storage components. This approach reduces costs while enhancing IT
responsiveness and agility.
VCE, formed by Cisco and EMC with investments by Intel and VMware, accelerates the adoption of converged-
infrastructure computing models that dramatically reduce the cost of IT, while improving IT flexibility and agility.
VCE
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Vblock
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Systems deliver the industry’s only converged infrastructure solution that is both fully integrated
and fully virtualized (Figure 1).
Vblock Systems are designed with a single architecture that is reflected in the entire portfolio of Vblock solutions
and uses leading technologies from Cisco, EMC, and VMware. Vblock systems are based on Cisco UCS with
EMC VNX and VMAX storage, and VMware-based virtualization. Vblock Systems eliminate data center silos and
improve IT productivity, helping to deliver the performance and application availability your business needs.
Solution
Cisco UCS Director is a vital companion for Vblock Systems. Cisco UCS Director allows holistic management with
centralized automation and orchestration from a single-view portal. When Vblock Systems and Cisco UCS
Director are combined, the efficiency gains free IT to shift time and energy away from managing infrastructure to
delivering new service innovation.
Figure 1. High-Level View of Vblock System 700 and Its Components