Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Dépliant
Application Centric Infrastructure
with Cisco UCS Director
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Cisco ACI breaks down the barriers.
With a consistent, uniform, massively
scalable fabric, your data center
becomes a single pool of resources.
You can recruit resources anywhere to
support any application. For example,
virtualization pools can extend across
infrastructure that would normally not
be in the same Layer 2 domain: for
example, across multiple FlexPod
instances or VCE Vblock™ Systems.
With a consistent, uniform, massively
scalable fabric, your data center
becomes a single pool of resources.
You can recruit resources anywhere to
support any application. For example,
virtualization pools can extend across
infrastructure that would normally not
be in the same Layer 2 domain: for
example, across multiple FlexPod
instances or VCE Vblock™ Systems.
Infrastructure can be partitioned so that
resources can be securely allocated
to different tenants, whether they are
service provider customers or clients of
your IT department. Resources can be
moved in and out of tenants as needed.
resources can be securely allocated
to different tenants, whether they are
service provider customers or clients of
your IT department. Resources can be
moved in and out of tenants as needed.
Applications Everywhere
With a single network fabric spanning
your entire data center, applications and
their components can live anywhere in
the fabric, without regard to traditional
barriers such as VLAN numbering.
Cisco ACI service chaining interposes
physical and virtual security and load
balancing between endpoint groups,
With a single network fabric spanning
your entire data center, applications and
their components can live anywhere in
the fabric, without regard to traditional
barriers such as VLAN numbering.
Cisco ACI service chaining interposes
physical and virtual security and load
balancing between endpoint groups,
automating the implementation of your
best practices.
best practices.
Applications are placed intelligently,
with the infrastructure understanding
underlying resource constraints,
providing a new level of flexibility in the
placement and movement of workloads
so they can perform best and make
better use of your IT resources.
with the infrastructure understanding
underlying resource constraints,
providing a new level of flexibility in the
placement and movement of workloads
so they can perform best and make
better use of your IT resources.
Application profiles help ensure
that your policies are implemented
consistently and accurately. With a
multitenant environment eliminating
name space conflicts, you can deploy
test, development, and production
environments that are exactly the same
down to the smallest details.
that your policies are implemented
consistently and accurately. With a
multitenant environment eliminating
name space conflicts, you can deploy
test, development, and production
environments that are exactly the same
down to the smallest details.
Multitenancy is supported naturally
because Cisco ACI encapsulates all
traffic into VXLAN tunnels that are
established and maintained by the
fabric. This encapsulation securely
separates applications, clients, tenants,
and other business organizations from
each other.
because Cisco ACI encapsulates all
traffic into VXLAN tunnels that are
established and maintained by the
fabric. This encapsulation securely
separates applications, clients, tenants,
and other business organizations from
each other.
Healthy Applications Means
That SLAs Are Met
Cisco ACI understands the mapping of
virtual network resources to physical
network resources that support
any given application profile. Built-
in hardware telemetry capabilities
enable application health checks with
moment-by-moment status of network
conditions.
That SLAs Are Met
Cisco ACI understands the mapping of
virtual network resources to physical
network resources that support
any given application profile. Built-
in hardware telemetry capabilities
enable application health checks with
moment-by-moment status of network
conditions.
Unlike with traditional software-defined
networks (SDNs), Cisco provides deep
visibility into the network fabric so that
networks (SDNs), Cisco provides deep
visibility into the network fabric so that
any problems at the virtual level can
quickly be mapped to the offending
physical component, with traffic routed
around it. No other combination of
technology gives you this level of
visibility into virtualized networks.
quickly be mapped to the offending
physical component, with traffic routed
around it. No other combination of
technology gives you this level of
visibility into virtualized networks.
Healthier applications mean a more
effective IT department that meets its
service-level agreements and responds
more quickly to rapidly changing
workload conditions.
effective IT department that meets its
service-level agreements and responds
more quickly to rapidly changing
workload conditions.
Smooth Migration Without
Forklift Upgrades
Your old and new environments need
to exist together in harmony. We have
developed technology and procedures
that can help you move from where
your network is today to where you
want it to be tomorrow—all while
protecting your investments.
Forklift Upgrades
Your old and new environments need
to exist together in harmony. We have
developed technology and procedures
that can help you move from where
your network is today to where you
want it to be tomorrow—all while
protecting your investments.
We can provide a bridge from
your existing pod-based network
architecture to your new Cisco ACI
fabric so that both environments can
coexist. Now you can migrate from
traditional networking to Cisco ACI
networking on a schedule that best
suits your needs.
your existing pod-based network
architecture to your new Cisco ACI
fabric so that both environments can
coexist. Now you can migrate from
traditional networking to Cisco ACI
networking on a schedule that best
suits your needs.
Application-Ready
Infrastructure Managed by
Cisco UCS Director
When you use Cisco UCS Director to
manage Cisco ACI fabrics, you get
application-ready infrastructure that
makes better use of your IT resources,
reduces time to revenue, improves
compliance, and quickly aligns IT
infrastructure with business operations.
manage Cisco ACI fabrics, you get
application-ready infrastructure that
makes better use of your IT resources,
reduces time to revenue, improves
compliance, and quickly aligns IT
infrastructure with business operations.
Greater Business Agility with
Cisco ACI
“We don’t know ahead of time what
the customer workloads are going to
be. The ability to scale and grow as
our customer’s workloads grow and as
we get new customers is a big piece
of it.”
Nik Weidenbacher
Principal Engineer
Sungard Availability Services
Principal Engineer
Sungard Availability Services