Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Dépliant
Application Centric Infrastructure
with Cisco UCS Director
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Cisco UCS Director Integration with
Cisco ACI
When you define an application
container with Cisco UCS Director,
it first interfaces with the Cisco
Application Policy Infrastructure
Controller (APIC). Cisco APIC uses
your policies to create a secure tenant
environment to contain the application,
endpoint groups to contain application
components, and contracts to enable
communication between them.
Cisco ACI
When you define an application
container with Cisco UCS Director,
it first interfaces with the Cisco
Application Policy Infrastructure
Controller (APIC). Cisco APIC uses
your policies to create a secure tenant
environment to contain the application,
endpoint groups to contain application
components, and contracts to enable
communication between them.
After the network environment
is prepared, Cisco UCS Director
provisions the physical and virtual
computing and storage infrastructure
that resides within the application
container. Cisco UCS Director can
facilitate final provisioning by initializing
storage volumes with appropriate
golden images. With point-and-click
simplicity, you deliver IT infrastructure
as a service (IaaS) through a single
interface (Figure 1).
is prepared, Cisco UCS Director
provisions the physical and virtual
computing and storage infrastructure
that resides within the application
container. Cisco UCS Director can
facilitate final provisioning by initializing
storage volumes with appropriate
golden images. With point-and-click
simplicity, you deliver IT infrastructure
as a service (IaaS) through a single
interface (Figure 1).
Automating and Orchestrating
Your IT Processes
Cisco UCS Director automates IT
processes that you design, automating
and orchestrating your organization’s
best practices. The capability of Cisco
UCS Director to interface with a wide
range of IT infrastructure allows you to
manage both your existing, traditional
infrastructure and your new, Cisco ACI
infrastructure. This feature provides you
with additional investment protection and
a migration path that you can implement
as your business requirements dictate.
Cisco UCS Director provides:
Your IT Processes
Cisco UCS Director automates IT
processes that you design, automating
and orchestrating your organization’s
best practices. The capability of Cisco
UCS Director to interface with a wide
range of IT infrastructure allows you to
manage both your existing, traditional
infrastructure and your new, Cisco ACI
infrastructure. This feature provides you
with additional investment protection and
a migration path that you can implement
as your business requirements dictate.
Cisco UCS Director provides:
•
Single-pane infrastructure
management: Through a single
point, you can automate and
orchestrate your IT infrastructure,
including computing, networking, and
storage infrastructure, with physical
and virtual resources that are treated
equally. This holistic management
makes your processes consistent
and reliable.
management: Through a single
point, you can automate and
orchestrate your IT infrastructure,
including computing, networking, and
storage infrastructure, with physical
and virtual resources that are treated
equally. This holistic management
makes your processes consistent
and reliable.
•
Policy-based infrastructure
provisioning: Cisco UCS Director
is role- and policy-based, so your
subject-matter experts can work
together to define your policies and
provisioning: Cisco UCS Director
is role- and policy-based, so your
subject-matter experts can work
together to define your policies and
Load
Balancer
Web
Web Web Web
DB
DB
DB
APP
APP
APP
APP
Cisco ACI
Cisco
UCS
Director
Cisco
Prime
Service
Catalog
Creates secure
multitenant
environment
Creates application
containers by
provisioning
computing,
networking,
and storage
infrastructure
Provisions
applications
into application
containers
Creates
endpoint
groups
Application
profile
Provisions virtual
machines
Oracle
Database
Oracle Java
HotSpot JVM
Provisions
virtualized
environments
Provisions
bare-metal
environments
Establishes services
between endpoint
groups
Apache Web
Server
Figure 1. Cisco UCS Director Creates Application Containers from Cisco ACI Application Profiles,
and Cisco Prime Service Catalog Can Provision Applications with Drag-and Drop Simplicity
and Cisco Prime Service Catalog Can Provision Applications with Drag-and Drop Simplicity
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