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Cisco UCS Director Yvo Wiskerke Solution Architect in Dutch Data Centre and Virtualisation Team

11 September 2013

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UCS Director Only Infrastructure Solution with this Management Scope

UCS Management API

UCS Director API

Unified Computing System

UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management

UCS Director Unified Infrastructure Automation and Management

UCS Manager

Domain 1

UCS Manager

Domain 2

Multi-Vendor Infrastructure Management

Nexus & MDS

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Importance of Converged Infrastructures

Automation required for seamless management

and increased cost and staff efficiencies1

Pre-tested, validated solutions

Reduce risk of data center transformation

Significantly increase utilization of resources

Decrease IT capital and operating costs

Based on UCS and Nexus fabric

Forrester

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Policy Driven

Provisioning

UCS Director (Formerly Cisco Cloupia) Self-Service Delivery

UCS Director

Unified Service Delivery Tenant

B Tenant

C Tenant

A

Model-based Management

Virtual

Platform

Storage

Network

Compute

Secure Cloud

Container

VMs vCompute vNetwork Storage

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UCS Director Key Differentiators

Single pane of

Glass

Installation &

Use

Multi-vendor Support

Model-based

Orchestration

Task Library Single License

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Model-based Automation

Script-based Orchestration Model-based Orchestration

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Task Library

Rapid Creation of

Orchestration Workflows

• Over 450+ tasks across industry standard devices

• Drag ‘n drop creation

• API “codelets” behind each task

UCS Tasks

• Select UCS Server

• Reset UCS Server

• Power On UCS Server

• Power Off UCS Server

• Create UCS Service Profile from Template

• Create UCS Service Profile

• Select UCS Service Profile

• Modify UCS Service Profile Boot Policy

• Delete UCS Service Profile

• Associate UCS Service Profile

• Disassociate UCS Service Profile

• Create UCS Boot Policy

• Modify UCS Boot Policy LUN ID

• Clone UCS Boot Policy

• Modify UCS Boot Policy WWPN

• Add VLAN

• Delete UCS Boot Policy

• Delete UCS VLAN

• Add VLAN to Service Profile

• Add iSCSI vNIC to Service Profile

• Add vNIC to Service Profile

• Delete vNIC from Service Profile

• Create Service Profile iSCSI Boot Policy

• Modify Service Profile Boot Policy to Boot from iSCSI

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Automated

Self-Service

Provisioning

Architect Design Where

Can We

Put It?

Procure Install Configure Secure Is It

Ready?

Manual

Infrastructure

On-Demand

Policy-Based

Provisioning

Built-In

Governance

FROM WEEKS TO MINUTES Automation Benefits

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Access configuration, VLAN,

VSAN, Security, and Hardening

Operating System Configuration

OS Type, Patch Level, Settings

Network interface card (NIC)

configuration: MAC address,

VLAN, and QoS settings;

host bus adapter HBA configuration:

worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,

and bandwidth constraints;

and firmware revisions

Unique service ID,

Application revisions,

and Storage settings

Application resources: Server, Storage, Network

Security, OS

VI SME

Storage SME

Server SME

Network SME

Access configuration, VLAN,

VSAN, Security, and

Hardening

Operating System

Configuration

OS Type, Patch Level, Settings

Network interface card (NIC)

configuration: MAC address,

VLAN, and QoS settings;

host bus adapter HBA configuration:

worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,

and bandwidth constraints;

and firmware revisions

Network interface card (NIC)

configuration: MAC address,

VLAN, and QoS settings;

host bus adapter HBA configuration:

worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,

and bandwidth constraints;

and firmware revisions

Network interface card (NIC)

configuration: MAC address,

VLAN, and QoS settings;

host bus adapter HBA configuration:

worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,

and bandwidth constraints;

and firmware revisions

Network interface card (NIC)

configuration: MAC address,

VLAN, and QoS settings;

host bus adapter HBA configuration:

worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,

and bandwidth constraints;

and firmware revisions

Access configuration, VLAN,

VSAN, Security, and

Hardening

Operating System

Configuration

OS Type, Patch Level, Settings

Access configuration, VLAN,

VSAN, Security, and

Hardening

Operating System

Configuration

OS Type, Patch Level, Settings

Access configuration, VLAN,

VSAN, Security, and

Hardening

Operating System

Configuration

OS Type, Patch Level, Settings

Subject matter experts define policies

1 Policies used to create Infrastructure

2 Pools, policies, templates are used to create infrastructure templates

3 Associating application profiles with fabric configures all needed application resources automatically

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UCS Director “Temecula” Release

Summer 2013

• Converged Infrastructure

EMC VMAX

Vblock 700

VSPEX (VNX)

FlexPod Cluster mode & 7 mode

OnTap 8.2 certification

HP I-Lo3/I-Lo4 (beta)

• Additional Features

Localization: Spanish, Japanese

Cisco Branded & Licensed Solution

Phase II – October 2013

• Vblock 100, VSPEX (VNXe)

• Enhance Cisco compute & network support

• ESX 5.5

• Multiple LDAP

• HP I-LO3/I-LO4 (DL Series, C-7000)

• IBM Blade/Rack Servers

• IPMI 2.0 Qualified

• SDK on Cisco Developer Network

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NetApp

• Supports 7 and Cluster mode FlexPod

Extensive task library for workflow creation

• Supports multi-tenancy & secure multi-tenancy

• Comprehensive, native management of NetApp storage

Logical & physical management down to vfiler

• New!

Certification for OnTap 8.2

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EMC and VCE

• Industry-leading management of VNX, VNXe and Vblock solutions

• Physical & virtual

• Extensive task library for workflow creation

• Support :

VMAX

Vblock 700

VSPEX (VNX)

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UCS Director

Delivers IT Efficiency to Better Align with Business Strategy

Increases IT Efficiency

Reduces OpEx and CapEx

Comprehensive Solution Across Physical and Virtual

Increases Business Agility

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UCS Director

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