Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Libro bianco
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service
December 2015
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Director. By using the collection of technologies in the Cisco UCS Director Software
Development Kit (SDK), you can access Cisco UCS Director data and invoke Cisco
UCS Director’s automation and orchestration operations from any application. The
SDK includes the REST APIs and Cisco UCS Director Open Automation. Scripting
technologies include the Cisco UCS Director PowerShell API, custom tasks bundled
in Cisco UCS Director script modules, and the capability to write your own custom
tasks using Cisco Cloupia Script, a server-side JavaScript implementation.
Development Kit (SDK), you can access Cisco UCS Director data and invoke Cisco
UCS Director’s automation and orchestration operations from any application. The
SDK includes the REST APIs and Cisco UCS Director Open Automation. Scripting
technologies include the Cisco UCS Director PowerShell API, custom tasks bundled
in Cisco UCS Director script modules, and the capability to write your own custom
tasks using Cisco Cloupia Script, a server-side JavaScript implementation.
With Cisco UCS Director SDK technologies, you can:
• Access Cisco UCS Director programmatically by using the Cisco UCS Director
REST API to invoke workflows and obtain reports
• Customize Cisco UCS Director by creating custom tasks and making them
accessible from workflows and scripts
• Extend Cisco UCS Director with Cisco UCS Director Open Automation to build
connectors that support additional devices and systems
• Use the Cisco UCS Director PowerShell API to connect to Microsoft System
Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and other devices that support
Microsoft PowerShell
Microsoft PowerShell
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 4. Cisco UCS Director Creates Application Containers from Cisco ACI Application
Profiles, and the Cisco Prime Service Catalog Can Provision Applications with Drag-and Drop
Simplicity
Profiles, and the Cisco Prime Service Catalog Can Provision Applications with Drag-and Drop
Simplicity