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SUSE Cloud Integration with Cisco UCS and Cisco
Nexus Platforms
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What You Will Learn
Cloud computing is on the minds and agendas of many IT professionals and is a focus of a growing number of
organizations offering cloud-based products. Hoping to manage the ever-growing complexity and sprawl of their
current infrastructure, IT staffs look to the automation and increased efficiency of cloud computing principles to free
their resources so that they can focus on more strategic endeavors. Cloud computing also offers much needed
agility for line-of-business owners so that they can quickly respond to changing priorities, yet provide scalable,
production-ready services. To address these needs, Cisco and SUSE have partnered to offer a complete,
integrated, cloud-based ecosystem for you to create and deploy private cloud instances within your own network
space and with computing resources under your own control.
This document discusses this private cloud solution. It highlights the integration aspects of the solution, which
combines the strengths of each company's products into a cohesive platform. The highly automated nature of this
private cloud instance can then be applied to any phase or type of workload deployment, from testing to production
services, and can even include components to manage the overall lifecycle of the cloud computing infrastructure
and the workloads. The target audience for this document is individuals seeking an overall view of such an
ecosystem solution, which consists of several offerings from Cisco and SUSE. However, this document is not
intended to be a detailed deployment guide, nor does it describe more advanced setups.
Introduction
Cloud computing models have existed for some time, especially for public clouds, to provide access to resources
such as hardware, software, and services over the network. By abstracting the complex infrastructure it is built on
from end users and, to some extent, from some administrators and development and information technology
operations (DevOps) professionals, virtual instances or workloads can be provisioned on demand from predefined
templates. Services, consisting of many such workloads, can be provisioned for use in minutes and then scaled
appropriately to meet service demands. For additional information, you can read about the core characteristics of
Although public cloud services have existed for a while, your company may want to take advantage of this
framework to implement a private cloud, which offers better security and more control of the resources with less
impact on performance resulting from the sharing of resources with others. Private clouds also affect your return on
investment (ROI) because, unlike public clouds, deployment of a private cloud instance requires locally maintained
infrastructure; however, because resources are still shareable and scalable with potentially higher overall
utilization, your total cost of ownership (TCO) is likely to be lower than the TCO of traditional IT infrastructure
deployments, including simple virtualization consolidation. The increased flexibility and high level of automation
further contribute to the appeal of this solution, allowing you to rapidly respond to your changing business
conditions without overburdening IT resources.