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Cloud Orchestration with UCS DirectorEdward I. EvansCisco Consulting Systems Engineer, Data CenterNew England SLEDedwevans@cisco.comFollow me @UCSdude

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UCS Director

UCS Director Solves Infrastructure Challenges

Manual processes require days or weeks to deploy resources;

increases operating costs

Data center teams stay in rigid silos, with complex hand-offs between domains and teams

Static resource allocation results in under-utilization of

resources and inefficiency

Reduces resource deployment from weeks to minutes

Allows IT teams to work together; encourages teamwork resulting in competitive innovation

Delivers unified automation and management for optimum utilization and efficiencies

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UCS Director

Cisco UCS Director

UCSNetwork

(ACI or Standalone) Storage Virtualization L4-7 Services

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Applications

VMware Vsphere Microsoft Hyper-V

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

Bare-Metal

Bare-Metal

IAC

Northbound API

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Cisco UCS Director: Voted SVC Product of the Year Virtualization Management Category

Storage, Virtualization, Cloud (SVC) Award

Winning Attributes:

Physical + Virtual Infra Mgmt Multi-

Vendor Coverage

FlexPod, Vblock, VSPEX Support

Turnkey, Out-of-the-Box

Fast Time-to-Value

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Cisco Management Overview

Manages multiple UCS

Domains

Manages ACI Fabric

UCS CENTRAL

UCS DIRECTOR Centralized infrastructure control point for data center

APIC

INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION FOR CLOUD Private Cloud, PaaS (DevOps), Hybrid Cloud

Manages heterogeneous data

centers and converged infrastructure

Manages Single UCS domain

UCS MANAGER

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Server Policy…

Storage Policy…

Application Network …

Virtualization Policy…

Application Profiles…

Unified Management and Automation Aligns People, Policy, and Configuration With Business

Subject Matter Experts Define Policies

Polices Used to Define Network, L4-7 Services, Service Profile

SAN and Storage

2

VISME

StorageSME

ServerSME

Network SME

Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware PolicySAN ZoningCreate and MAP LUN

Provision Physical and VI

3 System is ready for Use

4

Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware Policy

Storage Configuration

Virtual Infrastructure Configuration

Network Configuration

DvS/AVSNexus 1000v

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UCS Director Unified Automation and Management

o Manages globally distributed data centers

o Drill down capabilities reduces time for IT admin/ops

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Drag ‘n Drop Workflow Creation

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UCS Director All-Inclusive Consumption Reporting

o Starting point between IT and users of resources on understanding consumption rateso Ability to add costs for chargeback capabilities

o Reporting tool formalizes information for consumers

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UCS Director Approvals

o Approvals for IT admin, change control or other appropriate approvals inserted into workflows

o Email, texts to individual when approval is pending

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What ‘s New Version 4.1

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Cisco UCS Director 4.1 Overview

Compute

• UCS B and C Series

CIM-C for XML interface

• HP, Dell server support

• UCS Invicta Series

Network

• Cisco network support

• Brocade Support

• F5 Support

Storage

• NetApp FlexPod Data Center, FlexPod Express

• 7-mode and cluster mode

• EMC VMAX, VNX and VNX2

• VCE vBlock

Hypervisor

• VMware • Hyper-V

• Scales to large data centers (50,000 virtual machines)• Software Developer Kit for partners and vendors • Heterogeneous support of infrastructure devices • Single pane of glass to manage physical, virtual and bare

metal

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UCS Director v4.1Scalability – Standard Deployment Model

DB(Inventory +

Performance)UCSD Software

BMAPowerShell

Agent

• Environment Size5000 devices; 50K virtual machines

• Support for larger data center environments

• Minimum System RequirementsUCS Director Software: 64 Bit OVF

vCPU: 4, Memory: 8 Gig (Reserved)

Disk: 100 Gig

UCS Director Agents

PowerShell Agent: vCPU: 2, Memory: 4 Gig (Reserved)

Bare-Metal Agent: vCPU: 1, Memory: 4 Gig (Reserved)

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• Inventory Features (SSN, SSR)

• CRUD Operations & Reports

Volume Group, Initiator Groups

LUN, VLAN, Virtual Interface and Bond

• Converged and Stack Views

• Solution Flows – SMT (iSCSI, FC)

• Bare Metal (iSCSI & FC)

UCS Director & Invicta

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• Support for Prime Network Service Controller ‒ Collects inventory and creates reports

‒ Workflow task support for actions

• Integrates VSG into Application Containers‒ Integrates VSG into existing application

container within UCSD

• Extends UCS Director’s value to network services

UCS Director Network Infrastructure Containers

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LIVE DEMO!

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Summary • UCS Director 4.1 deepens ability to manage

heterogeneous infrastructure

• Turnkey Solution – ready to use in hours ‒ Automates provisioning and management of

converged infrastructures

• Works With Others ‒ Northbound API integrates into higher platforms

‒ SDK allows for strong partner integration

• Strong Infrastructure & Application Focus ‒ Integration with UCS Manager & UCS Central

‒ EMC: VMAX, VNX, VNX2 & NetApp 7 & C-Mode

‒ Network Containers for Applications

Delivers IT efficiency for better alignment with business strategy

Thank you.