Cisco UCS Director
is a complete, highly secure, end-to-end management, orchestration, and
automation solution for a wide array of Cisco and non-Cisco data infrastructure
components, and for the industry's leading converged infrastructure solutions
based on the
Cisco UCS
and Cisco Nexus platforms. For a complete list of supported infrastructure
components and solutions, see the
Cisco UCS Director
Compatibility Matrix.
Cisco UCS Director
is a 64-bit appliance that uses the following standard templates:
Management
through
Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director extends the unification of computing and networking layers through Cisco UCS to provide you with comprehensive visibility and management of your data center infrastructure components. You can use Cisco UCS Director to configure, administer, and monitor supported Cisco and non-Cisco components. The tasks you can perform include the following:
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Create,
clone, and deploy service profiles and templates for all
Cisco UCS
servers and compute applications.
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Monitor
organizational usage, trends, and capacity across a converged infrastructure on
a continuous basis. For example, you can view heat maps that show virtual
machine (VM) utilization across all your data centers.
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Deploy and
add capacity to converged infrastructures in a consistent, repeatable manner.
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Manage,
monitor, and report on data center components, such as
Cisco UCS
domains or Cisco Nexus network devices.
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Extend virtual
service catalogs to include services for your physical infrastructure.
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Manage secure
multi-tenant environments to accommodate virtualized workloads that run with
non-virtualized workloads.
Automation and
Orchestration with
Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director
enables you to build workflows that provide automation services, and to publish
the workflows and extend their services to your users on demand. You can
collaborate with other experts in your company to quickly and easily create
policies. You can build
Cisco UCS Director
workflows to automate simple or complex provisioning and configuration
processes.
Once built and validated, these workflows perform the same way every time, no matter who runs the workflows. An experienced
data center administrator can run them, or you can implement role-based access control to enable your users and customers
to run the workflows on a self-service basis, as needed.
With
Cisco UCS Director,
you can automate a wide array of tasks and use cases across a wide variety of
supported Cisco and non-Cisco hardware and software data center components. A
few examples of the use cases that you can automate include, but are not
limited to:
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VM
provisioning and lifecycle management
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Network
resource configuration and lifecycle management
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Storage
resource configuration and lifecycle management
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Tenant
onboarding and infrastructure configuration
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Application
infrastructure provisioning
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Self-service
catalogs and VM provisioning
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Bare metal
server provisioning, including installation of an operating system