Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 白皮書
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Application Infrastructure on Demand with Cisco UCS Director and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
March 2015
Business Benefits of Cisco UCS Director and Cisco ACI Integration
Cisco UCS Director and Cisco ACI integrate through native tasks and prebuilt
workflows. This integration supports infrastructure as a service (IaaS) with three
main features: secure mulitenancy, rapid application deployment, and a self-service
portal.
Cisco UCS Director and Cisco ACI integrate through native tasks and prebuilt
workflows. This integration supports infrastructure as a service (IaaS) with three
main features: secure mulitenancy, rapid application deployment, and a self-service
portal.
Secure Multitenancy
The integrated solution provides consistent delivery of infrastructure components
that are ready to be consumed by clients in a secured fashion: a critical IaaS
business benefit. The solution also optimizes resource sharing capabilities and
provides secure isolation of clients without compromising quality of service (QoS)
in a shared environment, providing additional business benefits. The Cisco solution
frees organizations to focus time and resources on other business-critical solutions.
The integrated solution provides consistent delivery of infrastructure components
that are ready to be consumed by clients in a secured fashion: a critical IaaS
business benefit. The solution also optimizes resource sharing capabilities and
provides secure isolation of clients without compromising quality of service (QoS)
in a shared environment, providing additional business benefits. The Cisco solution
frees organizations to focus time and resources on other business-critical solutions.
To provide infrastructure as a service, clients must have a private collection of
resources they can use as they want to support their applications. Client resources
can be located on the premises (for example, physical servers) or hosted with a
service provider (for example, a set of virtual machines).
resources they can use as they want to support their applications. Client resources
can be located on the premises (for example, physical servers) or hosted with a
service provider (for example, a set of virtual machines).
Regardless of the business model you choose, secure multitenancy must reserve
resources for exclusive use and securely isolate them from other clients. This
approach increases security and access control over resources and helps you
deliver consistent service levels. These capabilities not only benefit your clients, but
they also benefit you, the provider, by enhancing your trust relationship with your
clients.
resources for exclusive use and securely isolate them from other clients. This
approach increases security and access control over resources and helps you
deliver consistent service levels. These capabilities not only benefit your clients, but
they also benefit you, the provider, by enhancing your trust relationship with your
clients.
Cisco ACI supports multitenancy by using Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) tunnels
internally within the fabric, inherently isolating tenant and application traffic. Cisco
UCS Director manages the resource pools assigned to each container. Only Cisco
supports secure multitenancy that incorporates both physical and virtual resources.
internally within the fabric, inherently isolating tenant and application traffic. Cisco
UCS Director manages the resource pools assigned to each container. Only Cisco
supports secure multitenancy that incorporates both physical and virtual resources.
Rapid Application Deployment
The combination of Cisco UCS Director and Cisco ACI enhances your capability to
rapidly deploy application infrastructure for you and your clients. With the increasing
demands of new applications and the elastic nature of cloud environments,
administrators need to be able to quickly design and build application profiles and
publish them for use by clients. Cisco UCS Director, in conjunction with Cisco ACI,
gives you the ability to quickly meet the needs of your clients.
The combination of Cisco UCS Director and Cisco ACI enhances your capability to
rapidly deploy application infrastructure for you and your clients. With the increasing
demands of new applications and the elastic nature of cloud environments,
administrators need to be able to quickly design and build application profiles and
publish them for use by clients. Cisco UCS Director, in conjunction with Cisco ACI,
gives you the ability to quickly meet the needs of your clients.
Cisco UCS Director interacts with Cisco ACI to automatically implement the
networking services that support applications. In Cisco UCS Director, you can
specify a range of Layer 4 through 7 networking services between application
layers that are deployed with a zero-touch automated configuration model. You can
dynamically place workloads based on current network conditions so that service
levels are maintained at the appropriate level for the applications being supported
by the client. You can use resource groups to establish tiers of resources based on
application requirements, including computing, networking, and storage resources
with varying levels of performance. For example, a bronze level of service might be
used for developers and include resources such as thin-provisioned storage and
virtualized computing resources. In contrast, a gold level of service might be used
networking services that support applications. In Cisco UCS Director, you can
specify a range of Layer 4 through 7 networking services between application
layers that are deployed with a zero-touch automated configuration model. You can
dynamically place workloads based on current network conditions so that service
levels are maintained at the appropriate level for the applications being supported
by the client. You can use resource groups to establish tiers of resources based on
application requirements, including computing, networking, and storage resources
with varying levels of performance. For example, a bronze level of service might be
used for developers and include resources such as thin-provisioned storage and
virtualized computing resources. In contrast, a gold level of service might be used