Cisco UCS Director for the Public Sector
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The document discusses Cisco UCS Director, a unified management platform for converged infrastructure, highlighting its capabilities in policy-driven provisioning, self-service delivery, and end-to-end automation for both physical and virtual resources. It emphasizes the importance of integrating various IT components to enhance operational efficiency and reduce time-to-market for services. Key features include a single management interface, support for multiple cloud environments, and streamlined orchestration that improves resource allocation and reduces complexity.
Cisco UCS Director for the Public Sector
- 1. Cisco Confidential© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1 Cisco UCS Director Kevin T. Park kpark@cisco.com Consulting Systems Engineer
- 2. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2 77% 23% Maintain Value-Add • 24% pre-system deployment • 23% turning on and preparing for applications • 29% monitoring, update and patch management, health monitoring, troubleshooting • Organizational effectiveness hinges on IT efficiency • IT environment increasingly complex Source: IDC, 2011
- 3. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3 Source: IDC, 2011 $0 $50 $100 $150 $200 $250 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Server Spending Mgmt. and Administration—Standalone Servers Mgmt. and Administration—Virtual Servers Power and Cooling Expense
- 4. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4 Converged Infrastructures • Converged Infrastructure Provide part of the solution Have direct impact on OpEx Indirect increase of CapEx • Net Result – TCO IncreasesPower Cooling 60% Cost Reduction Application Performance 30% Faster Execution Infrastructure Costs 30% Cost Reduction Management and Automation Are Key
- 5. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5 Value High Business Change = Need to Smooth Disruption to IT Customers Gain Most Advantage Seamless Management Integration Across Converged, Heterogeneous and Hybrid Virtualization Environments Business Drivers Faster Time to Service/Market Increased Cost Advantage/IT Efficiency Greater Infrastructure and Operational Improvements Management Is Key Single Orchestration, Provisioning and Monitoring is Essential Highly Prescriptive Framework and Configuration Templates Source: IDC 2012, 2011
- 6. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6 Self-service Delivery Policy Driven Provisioning Cisco UCS Director Unified Service Delivery Secure Cloud Container VMsvComputevNetwork Storage Tenant B Tenant C Tenant A Model-based Management Virtual Platform Storage Network Compute
- 7. Cisco Confidential 7© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 8. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8 Cloud Services Ecosystem of Service Providers Cisco® Virtual Application Container Services Cisco Prime™ Service Catalog Self-Service Portal Integrated Infrastructure Management Cisco UCS® Director Multivendor Computing, Network, Storage, and Virtualization Hybrid Cloud Management Cisco Intercloud Fabric CloudOperations(CloudAssurance)(3rd- PartyBilling,Assurance,ResourceMgmt)
- 9. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9 API to Cisco UCSM Enterprise Systems Integration LDAP, CMDB, Metering DB • Single, unified product built from the ground up • Modular architecture • Extensibility through APIs • Deployed as an on-premise Virtual Appliance(s) UCS Director Network Services Agent Virtual Infrastructure Management vCenter SCVMMBlade Server Managers Network API/CLIStorage APIs RM Provides: • Policy-Driven • Self-Service Infrastructure • Lifecycle Management Physical Infrastructure Virtual Infrastructure Cisco UCS Director Multi-tenant Infrastructure Management Platform Mobile Platform IT Admins IT OperationsEnd Users UCS Director Provides Unified, Centralized Management of Physical and Virtualization Infrastructure in Private and Hybrid Clouds VMware Hyper-V KVM Other Providers Savvis VPDC, Terremark Amazon, Entel, Rackspace Self Service Catalog Admin Console Dashboard Cisco UCS Cisco Nexus
- 10. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10 Solutions Overview Self-Service Infrastructure Policy-Driven Lifecycle Management Virtual Infrastructure UCS Director Physical Infrastructure NetworkCompute Storage Customer Choice Self Service Console ID & Access Manager OS Provisioning Mobile Platform CloudGenie Admin Console Policy Manager Database Dashboard Resource Pools Event Manager IT Admins IT OperationsEnd Users
- 11. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11 Key-Summary End-to-End Automation • Unified policy-driven provisioning • Model-based automation – no need for scripting • Ongoing lifecycle management Turn-Key Solution – Ready to Use in Hours • Unified, integrated and out-of-the-box solution • Seamless physical and Virtual resource pooling • Hypervisor agnostic Customers are increasingly buying compute, network, storage, and virtualization as a single, converged system Virtualization Manager Storage Manager Network Manage Compute Manager CA B Virtualization Compute B CA Network Tenant B Tenant C Tenant A Storage Single Panel- of-Glass for End-to- End Management and Automation
- 12. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12 Architect Design Where Can We Put It? Procure Install Configure Secure Is It Ready? Manual Capacity On-Demand Policy-Based Provisioning Built-In Governance Weeks Days and Hours
- 13. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13 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 interfacecard (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Network interfacecard (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Network interfacecard (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Network interfacecard (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 All are used to build Infrastructure from templates 3 Associating application profiles with fabric configures all needed application resources automatically 4
- 14. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 14 Challenges: • Many groups • Many human interfaces • Manual steps Result: High latency Virtual Admins Network AdminsServer Admins Storage Admins Approvals Define Cost Models Setup VDC Add Users and Groups IT Planning Business Application Requirements Configure SAN Zoning Create UCS Service Profiles Create Network Policies Update Trunks Create VLANs Add VLAN to Service Profile Create VLAN Create Storage Resources (LUNs and Volumes) Configure Servers Bare metal Provisioning (PXE Boot with ESXi 4.1) Setup Servers UCS Blade Power On Create Storage Policy Map NetApp LUN Add vFilers to Group Create vFilers Create IP space Send Complete Notifications Register Host Node Weeks
- 15. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 15 End-to-End Operations and Provisioning • Single-click provisioning • Intelligent resource allocation • Automated, controlled delivery Result: Improved time to market Minutes
- 16. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 16 Architect Design Where Can We Put It? Procure Install Configure Secure Is It Ready? Manual Capacity On-Demand Policy-Based Provisioning Adaptive From Weeks to Minutes Automated Self-Service Provisioning
- 17. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 17 • Unified end-to-end management and automation Model-based orchestration • Multi-vendor; multi-protocol support of converged infrastructures Virtualization Storage Network Manage Cisco UCS Manager CA B Virtualization Compute B CA Network Tenant B Tenant C Tenant A Storage
- 18. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 18 Self-Service • What to offer • How to deliver • Who’s using what? Manual Resource RequestAutomated Resource Request Automation delivers: Speed Consistency Network Compute Storage I Need Stuff
- 19. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 19 Rapid Creation of Orchestration Workflows • Over 467 tasks across industry standard devices • Drag ‘n drop creation 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
- 20. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 20 • Rapid configuration and monitoring • Customizable view • Quick status across critical components
- 21. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 21 Rapidly View Converged Infrastructure Stacks
- 22. Cisco Confidential 22© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Comprehensive View of Utilization and Consumption
- 23. Cisco Confidential 23© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Drill Down for Granular Detail on Each Component
- 24. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 24 Workflow Service Status Comprehensive Operational Views for IT Operations
- 25. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 25 Utilization Reports VM Count by Group 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 Default Group DEMO-Group <20% 20%-40% 40%-60% 60%-80% 80%-100% VM Utilization % by Group 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 Default Group DEMO-Group Inactive VMs Active VMs
- 26. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 26 Technical User Perspective • Self-serve provisioning of IT infrastructure • Role-based access for technical users
- 27. Cisco Confidential 27© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 28. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 28 Validated Management Solution for FlexPod Policy Driven Provisioning Secure Cloud Container Self-service Delivery Model-based Management VM Manager Storage Manager Network Manager Compute Manager Cisco and NetApp Confidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute. • Unified model-based management • Delivering secure multi-tenancy Plug-ins CA B Virtualization Compute B CA Network Tenant B Tenant C Tenant A Storage Single Panel- of- Glass for End-to-End Management and Automation VMsvComputevNetwork StoragevFiler®
- 29. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 29 • Consistent quality of service (QoS) at each layer • Manage each resource pool independently • Reduce risk and cost while boosting IT agility • Certified with Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards (for Homeland Security) and passed the International Computer Security Association (ICSA) audit ERP HR CRM VMware® VMware VMware ERP HR CRM Cisco and NetApp Confidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute. Resource Pool Settings Platinum Tenant Gold Tenant Silver Tenant Reservation Reserved Reserved No reservation Limits Unlimited Limited Limited Shares High Medium Low Expandable Reservation Enabled Disabled Disabled
- 30. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 30 • Single-click provisioning • Single management interface Physical and virtual infrastructure • Model-based orchestration • Converged infrastructure management Self-service portal Multi-tenant security Cisco UCS Director End-to-End Infrastructure Management Application Hypervisor X86 Server Network Storage
- 31. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 31 Cisco UCS Director End-to-End Infrastructure Management Single-Click Provisioning Single Management Interface • Physical and Virtual Infrastructure Model-Based Orchestration Converged Infrastructure Management • Self-service portal • Multi-tenant security
- 32. Cisco Confidential 32© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 33. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 33 End-to-End Functionality • Support for both virtual and physical infrastructures • Multi-vendor public cloud support • Hypervisor agnostic • Single pane of glass management, automation and orchestration • Self-service, integrated monitoring and chargeback • Includes task library with over 400+ tasks for easy drag and drop workflow creation Simple and Easy to Deploy • A single, integrated, out-of-the-box solution • Install in the morning, provision in the afternoon Integrated Compute Stacks • FlexPodTM • Vblock • VSPEX Flexibility • Model-based orchestration eliminates need for scripting