UCS Director

Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite

Tams Zeisel, Consulting Systems Engineer
Visnja Rados, Consulting Systems Engineer

DC & Cloud South East Europe

April 2015

 UCS Director Overview

Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite

UCSD Demo
Q&A

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Seamless Infrastructure Management on UCS Director

Remote Office

Core Enterprise Applications and Data Analytics

COMPUTE
NETWORK
STORAGE

Scale-Out Workloads

UCS
Director
Express
Bare-metal

Manage across facilities

Unify compute, network, storage

physical and virtualized

Application optimized infrastructure

New! Hyper-V support for Citrix networking

Rapid, low-cost infrastructure deployment

based on application requirements

New! VACS Integrated application

containers

Consistent, robust deployment every time

New! UCS Mini and E-Series support

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UCS Director: Multi-vendor Support

Agility and Simplicity for Virtualized and Bare-Metal IT Services

Open API for
Integration

End Users

IT Admins

IT Operations

Self Service Portal

Admin / End User

Console

Service Request
Approvals

Metering / Utilization

OS, VM, App

Deployment

Policy Manager

Resource Pools

Consumption Cost
Model

UCS

Physical Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Cisco ASAv

IS
E
Nexus
Cisco VACS

Centralized Lifecycle Management of Physical and Virtualization Infrastructure

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Cisco UCSD Turn-Key Solution Overview

Mobile Devices

End
Users

Operations

Admins

Self Service
Portal

Admin
Console

Dashboard

REST API

LDAP, Single Sign On

RBAC
IT Ticketing Systems
CMDB,
Metering/Chargeback

System
Integration

UCSD Unified Infrastructure Controller

Amazon,
Rackspace,

Multi-tenant & integrated cloud platform

Provider API

UCS Director
Integrated Multi-tenant Cloud Platform

Server
Managers

Custom
Connector

Storage
APIs

UCS

Open
Automation

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Network
Manager

Public Clouds

vCenter

System Center

RHE-Virtualization
Manager

Nexus

VMware

Infrastructure

HyperV

KVM

Cloud Infrastructure
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Broad Multi-Vendor Infrastructure Support

UCS Director
Converged

VM

L4-L7

vASA,
CSR1000v

Compute

Network

Storage

Nexus
MDS

VBLOCK FlexPod
200, 300, Data Center
700
FlexPod
VPLEX
Express

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Cisco UCS Director Compute Operational Overview

REST API

UCS Director

UCS-M
XML API

UCS

UCS-Central XML API

UCS-1

UCS-2

UCS-n

CIMC
XML

CIMC
XML

UCS-C
Standalone

UCS-E
(Branches)

iLO, OA

IPMI

Connector

3rd
Party

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Extending UCS Director

UCS Director Interfaces

PowerShell
Cmdlets

REST API

North Bound
UCSD

South Bound
Open Automation Framework
for Java

CloupiaScript
Framework

Built-in
Connectors

Open Automation Framework for

Powershell

Module-n
Module-x

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UCSD Deployment Models

Legend

VM
Standard Deployment
2000 VMs
500 Physical Nodes
Embedded DB

UCSD

BMA

PowerShell Agent

64-bit OVF
8 GB RAM Reserved
4 vCPUs

Multi-Node
Deployment
50,000 VMs
5,000 Nodes

UCSD
Software

PowerShell Agent-1
PowerShell Agent-2
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64-bit OVF
8 GB RAM Reserved
4 vCPUs

DB
(Inventory +
Performance)

UCSD
Software

64-bit OVFs
12+ GB RAM Reserved
4 vCPUs

UCSD
Software

DB
(Inventory)

DB
(Perf)

BMA-1
BMA-2
BMA-n

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Cisco UCSD Implementation

LAN

Compute

Storage

Virtual

Discover

Design

Users Groups Policies

vDC
Application Containers

Deploy

Ph-1: IT admins manage, automate

Ph-2: Extend to Self Service Users

Operate

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Monitor

Resource Optimization

Management

Maintenance

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UCS Director

Centralized Data Center Automation

Network Service Containers

UCS MANAGER/
CENTRAL / IMC Supervisor

o
o

Manage single, multiple

UCS domains
Branch/remote offices

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APIC

ACI & Nexus

Fabric

VACS

Heterogeneous
& UCS-based Integrated
Infrastructures

Pre-defined virtual
network services in 6
steps
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UCS Director & Nexus 1000V

Virtual Application Container Services (VACS)

Virtual Application Container Services

Provision virtual & physical containers

in < six logical steps through UCS Director

Containers are regulatory compliant

Single license for all components

N1000V, CSR 1000V, VSG

Cisco UCS Director

Container A

Virtual Services Portfolio

Licensed per server (50 VMs)

Simplicity

Container B

vPath
VMware
vSphere

Microsoft
HyperV

Automatically defines & deploys secure

containers for server admins
Deploys on multiple hypervisors

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Drag n Drop Workflow Creation

Orchestration, Workflow and Tasks Defined

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Task Library 1000+ Tasks

Plus create Custom Tasks in minutes

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Introducing UCS Director Orchestration and Workflows

my-workflow
Storage

Networ
k
Compute
Virtualization

Start
Task-1
Task-2

Resume Worfklow
Rollback
Deprovision

Task-3
Task-4

Approvals
Publish to Catalog

End
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Monitoring and Reporting

CloudSense significantly improves
capacity trending, forecasting,
reporting, and planning of virtual
and cloud infrastructures.

Billing Report for a Customer

Organizational Usage of Virtual Computing Infrastructure

EMC Storage Inventory Report

PNSC Account Summary Report

VM Activity Report by Group

VMware Host Performance Summary

Physical Infrastructure Inventory Report for a Group

Storage Dedupe Status Report

Virtual Infrastructure and Assets Report

Storage Inventory Report For A Group

UCS Data Center Inventory Report

Thin Provisioned Space Report

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Chargeback Module
Following are the features of the chargeback module:

FlexibilityProvides fixed costs, one-time costs, allocation costs, usage costs, and a combination of all,
based on the organizational requirements.

Reusable Cost ModelsAssigns cost models to VMs using standardized cost models or templates. These
templates are used to apply cost models to new environments quickly.

ReportingGenerates various summary and comparison reports of costs and resource usage for the
virtual infrastructure. These reports are exported to PDF, CSV, and XLS formats and allows you to view
them within a web browser.

Top 5 ReportsMonitors the top five reports for organizations or groups with the highest VM cost, CPU,
memory, storage and network costs.

DashboardMonitors and analyzes VM metering information and chargeback in real time with the built-in
dashboard and extensive set of graphical widgets.

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UCSD 5.3 Release Highlights

Platform

Compute

Virtualization

Storage

Network

Secure Multi-Tenancy

Improving functionality for SP

Organization Hierarchy

Qualify VSAN nodes - C240M3 &

Tenant Level reports, access

control and branding

Native support for Cisco C880

C240M4
server

L4-L7 support in Application Container

Resource allocation at Tenant

Level/ VDC Level

Service Chaining

Tenant FW & LB Management

(ACI)

Firewall Policy updates

Non-ACI

Support for VMAX

L4-L7 Resource Pool
PSC 11.0 integration (APIs)

Metering & Chargeback

Cost Model support for Application

Containers

Cost Model for Physical

Server(UCS) ACI application
container only

Licensing

APIC 1.03(f) Support

L4-L7 Service Policy

SDK & API

Support NetApp ONTAP 8.3

Resource Management

ACI

Support Nexus 9372PX/TX Models

N1KV/Hyper-V VXLAN support

release
NetApp vServer level account

management
Native support IBM Storwize V7K

unified and SVC

Invicta Appliance 5.0.1.2 support
EMC VMAX Enhancements -

Additional Tasks and Actions

EMC Recovery Point

Enhancements image access

options, indefinite snapshot
consolidation

VMware VSAN Features

VSAN Cluster Lifecycle

Management

VSAN Nodes Discovery &

Inventory

VSAN Reports

VSAN Storage Profile

Management

VSAN Qualification Policies

Compute Policy Update

(Storage Profile support)

Support for VMware affinity

rules for Storage

Converged Infrastructure

FlexPod ACI support

VersaStack Support
Private Cloud ACI with VNX

Support for Cisco One Licensing

(available from 5.2.0.2 patch)

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Private Cloud with ACI

FlexPod and VNX (available with UCSD 5.3)
Secure Multi-Tenancy

Tenancy Management
Allocation of Physical and Virtual Resources Pools (Tenant Containers

UCS Director

/vPODs)

Users, Groups & Roles

Resource Pool Physical and Virtual

Resource Management

Compute, Network, Storage, L4-L7 Services

Infrastructure & Application resource characteristics

CPU, Memory, Capacity, Throughput, Availability

Application Container

Self-Service Portal
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Application Blueprint
Multi-Tier Application Deployment
Lifecycle management of Application Tiers
Firewall & LB services (Service Chaining)

Catalog Definition and Entitlement

Self-Service Provisioning
Application Container Lifecycle Management
Northbound Integration with other end-user portals (PSC)

APIC

NetApp Clustered ONTAP

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 UCS Director Overview

Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite

UCSD Demo
Q&A

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Cisco ONE Software Portfolio

Cisco UCS Director part of Cisco ONE for Data Center

Advanced
Security1

Cisco ONE for Data Center

Cisco ONE for WAN

Cisco ONE for Access

Threat Defense for Data Center

Threat Defense for WAN

Identity Services for Access

ASA

ASA, Cloud

ISE

Advanced
Applications

Data Center
Fabric

Enterprise
Cloud Suite

WAN Collaboration

Campus Fabric

Advanced
Mobility
Services

Foundation

Foundation for
Networking

Foundation for
Compute

Foundation for WAN

Foundation
for Switching

Foundation
for Wireless

Networking

Compute

WAN

Switching

Wireless

Infrastructure
and Base OS

Nexus

Cisco
3K, 5K,
6K, 7K, 9K

X86, UCS

ISR, ASR

Catalyst

Cisco
2K, 3K, 4K, 6K

WLC, MSE, AP

1 Advanced Security offers are subscription based only, with controlled availability expected in April 2015
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Cloud Operations (Cloud Assurance) (3rdParty Billing, Assurance, Resource Mgmt)

Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite:

Spanning Private and Hybrid Clouds
Cisco Prime Service Catalog Self-Service Portal

Integrated Infrastructure Management Cisco UCS

Director
Hybrid Cloud Management
Cisco Intercloud Fabric
Cisco Virtual Application Container
Services

Multivendor Computing, Network, Storage, and Virtualization

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Supporting Application-Centric Cloud Deployment

Offering end user self-service VM and infrastructure container provisioning from the storefront
Service catalog as the storefront

Based on HOT or CFN

Stack designer defines an

application model

Publish as
orderable service

Provisioned into IaaS as an

application and infrastructure
container

Hybrid Cloud

Workload
Movement

Private Cloud
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Private Cloud in an Intercloud World

Similar, but tailored, node architectures

Private Clouds
Cisco Intercloud
Fabric

Secure workload mobility

Cisco Data Center

Locations

Secure workload mobility

White label / Resell

Cisco Cloud Services

Node Partner Locations

Own & Operate Cisco Cloud

Services Partner Locations

Public Clouds
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Cisco Powered

Intercloud Marketplace

Cisco Cloud Services

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Products Included
Use Case

Products Included

Enterprise Cloud

Self-service
provisioning and
lifecycle management
of hybrid-ready private
cloud & supporting
infrastructure

Prime Service Catalog

Cisco ONE for Data

Center
Threat Defense for Data Center
Coming Soon

UCS Director
UCS Performance Manager

ASA

Virtual Application Container Services

(includes Nexus 1KV Advanced)

Enterprise Cloud Suite

Prime Service Catalog Foundation

Compute & Virtual

Infrastructure
Unified compute for
UCS-based and multivendor compute
environments

Intercloud Fabric for Business (4 hybrid ports

for 1 year subscription)
UCS Director Foundation

Foundation for Compute

Nexus 1KV Essentials

UCS Performance Manager Foundation
UCS Central

Unified Computing System, X86

Energy Management

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Thank you.