• Infrastructure inefficiency and under utilization
Challenges of provisioning a static infrastructure
Net
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Update Trunks
Create VLANs
Configure SAN Zoning
Create UCS Service Profiles
Create Network Policies
Serv
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Configure Servers
Bare metal Provisioning
Setup Servers
Add VLAN to Service Profile
Create VLAN
Create Storage Resources
(LUNs and Volumes)
Stor
age Add vFilers
to GroupCreate vFilers
Create IP space
UCS Blade Power On
Create Storage Policy
Map NetApp LUN
Add Users and Groups
IT Planning
ApprovalsDefine Cost Models
Business
Application R
equirements
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Presentation Notes
UCS Director was built from a clean sheet of paper to operationally integrate the data center infrastructure stack, bare-metal and virtual, to address time-consuming, manual, complex processes that have burdened most IT organizations. Virtualization is often sold as a solution to IT complexity, yet virtualized infrastructure is the largest and fastest growing IT opex component according to IDC. While provisioning a virtual machine can be done in minutes, infrastructure dependencies and configuration are separate tasks and responsibilities. Compute, network, and storage equipment rarely integrate seamlessly with hypervisors, compounding the problem. Cisco UCS changed the game with network integration to vSphere, Hyper-V, and KVM. Before I can create a VM, I need to setup my storage array using its management console. I need to allocate a volume and load the hypervisor image. If it’s block storage, I may need to mask the LUN and configure the SAN, including zoning. I need to configure the IP network with the VLANs, quality-of-service, redundancy, and capabilities necessary for my applications. Finally, I need to configure a server with the correct IO and network adapters, firmware, BIOS, CPU configuration, network addresses, and more. After doing all these things, working with multiple teams – server, network, storage, hypervisor – I validate that everything is setup correctly – a process that can take weeks or even months. This is how IT complexity increases costs, lowers efficiency, and slows time to market. And this is a simplified example. What if my application has a bare-metal database? Scale-out big data nodes? There are many more steps in the deployment of a typical VM, hypervisor, or bare-metal application. In reality, data centers are a mix of bare-metal and virtualized applications spread across heterogeneous hypervisors and hardware.
Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key SolutionOn-Demand
Automated Delivery
Policy-Driven Provisioning
Secure Cloud Container
VMsComputeNetwork Storage
UCS Director
Domain Managers
OS and Virtual
Machines
Storage
Network
Compute
TenantB
TenantC
TenantA
Virtualized and Bare-Metal
Compute and Hypervisor
B CANetwork and Services
VM VM BareMetal
Single Pane of Glass
End-to-End Infrastructure
Automation and Lifecycle Management
Presenter
Presentation Notes
UCS Director automates end-to-end IT processes, abstracting the complexity of individual devices, hypervisors, and virtual machines. It’s the same concept as UCS, extended to application resources across compute, network, storage, and hypervisor. UCS Director enables resource delivery across the virtualization, compute, network and storage layers from a single pane of glass. The self-service portal enables IT administrators or IT consumers to quickly request and receive infrastructure resources. Cisco’s unified management approach reduces deployment times from weeks to minutes – virtual or bare-metal – a unique capability in our industry. Like UCS Manager, UCS Director brings together subject matter experts who define the policies and best practices for their IT organization. The network engineer defines the VLANs and network configuration for specific groups and applications. The storage engineer defines data protection and SAN configurations. Server and virtualization administrators define allowable resource configurations and pools. UCS Director enforces these policies and automates resource delivery upon request by authorized users. Some customers refer to these capabilities as data center automation. Others call it a private cloud, or infrastructure-as-a-service. Whatever the label, UCS Director delivers simplicity and efficiency for IT operations.
Single pane of glass to manage your data center
Simple workflow management
Managing your applications in a dynamic environment
Hybrid IT: ChallengeGrowth in Applications and Infrastructure
Cost and Complexity UP
Public Cloud
COST
DataCenter
PrivateCloud
Presenter
Presentation Notes
Cloud computing is rapidly evolving. Organizations are evolving their cloud strategy to put the right workload in the right environment and to get the best of both technology AND business advantage. There are many choices and good business reasons to use different environments: agility, efficiency, security, control, compliance, performance As a result, there is a growing mix of applications, across multiple environments, for groups of users that need to be managed in order to deliver the promised benefits of cloud If not managed effectively, the complexity of managing a hybrid service portfolio can undermine the promised cost and agility value of cloud computing
CloudCenter Provides Unique ValueModel Once. Deploy and Manage Anywhere.
CloudCenter is unique in the industry One profile – combines application and infrastructure automation directives And eliminates environment-specific automation that locks workloads into a single environment Supports composite topologies – including OS images, containers, application and cloud services, and leverages investments Chef, Puppet, Salt Graphical modeler – makes it easy to create a deployable Application Profile that is portable to any environment No environment specific scripting, programming, or modifying the application code Broad application support including �Popular types – n-tier, batch, cluster, parallel, distributed services etc. Popular technologies – java, .net, node js etc. Broad cloud support– pre-integrated support for 19+ datacenter, private and public clouds That each have different infrastructure APIs Meets the needs of most demanding service providers and enterprise IT organizations
Simple OS or VM
DEPLOY
MANAGE
MODEL
Complex Mix of Applications and Environments
DEPLOY
MANAGE
MODEL
What Makes CloudCenter’s Approach Unique?
Infrastructure-Centric
Cloud-Specific workflows and Scripts
Labor /Services Intensive
UniqueScript /
Workflow
Application-Centric
Cloud-Agnostic
Fast time to value
UniqueScript /
Workflow
UniqueScript /
Workflow
PortalUser – Model, deploy, manageAdmin – Visibility and controlaccounts, user groups, policies
Manager
Presenter
Presentation Notes
CloudCenter Manager - Management portal that User - allows users to quickly and easily model, deploy and manage application stacks on demand, and Admin - gives administrators enterprise-class visibility and governance control that spans applications, clouds, and users.
Defines Application Deployment and Management RequirementsCloud Agnostic
Portable
Five Key ComponentsApplication topologyInfrastructure resourcesDeployable ArtifactsOrchestrationPolicies
Application Profile
JSON and XML fileGraphical Modeler
“One Click” Deploy
Presenter
Presentation Notes
• CloudCenter Application Profile – User-created model that defines each application stack’s deployment and management requirements maintained in a cloud-agnostic format. Defines requirements in 5 parts Topology and dependencies Reosurces require Artifacts – packages, builds – scripts, files Orchestration – configuration and security Run-time – scalaing, bursting, end of life actions