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Cisco Confidential © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1 UCS Director Product Summary Infrastructure Management and Automation Geoff Soon Wee Kuenn Leow ASEAN, Intelligent Automation Team
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2 UNIFIED FABRIC UNIFIED COMPUTING Highly Scalable, Secure Network Fabric Modular Stateless Computing Elements Deliver architectural flexibility for all Data Centers Provides consistent networking across physical, virtual and cloud Unite computing, network, storage access, and virtualization Deliver cohesive system that reduces TCO and increases business agility Unified Computing Solutions Unified Fabric Solutions UNIFIED MANAGEMENT Automated Resource Management (Physical and Virtual) Simplify and automate IT provisioning with policy-based management Deliver physical and virtual resources on- demand for greater flexibility and agility Unified Management Solutions Unified Data Center
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3 Self-Service Portal and Service Catalog Integration Framework Cisco UCS Director Converged Infrastructure Management Cisco & Multi-Vendor Compute, Network, Storage, and Virtualization IP Address Management Billing/ Chargeback Service Desk/CMDB Monitoring LDAP/Active Directory Cloud Service Providers Service Assurance FlexPod / VBLOCK/V|VSPEX Cisco UCS Nexus
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4 Subject Matter Experts Define Policies Policies Used to Create Service Profile SAN and Storage 22 Nexus 1000v vSwitch VI SME Storage SME Server SME Network SME Server Policy…Server Policy… Storage Policy…Storage Policy… Network Policy…Network Policy… Virtualization Policy…Virtualization Policy… Application Profiles…Application Profiles… Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN Boot Information LAN, SAN Config Firmware Policy SAN Zoning Create and MAP LUN Provision Physical and VI 33 System is ready for Use 44 Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN Boot Information LAN, SAN Config Firmware Policy Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN Boot Information LAN, SAN Config Firmware Policy Storage Configuration Virtual Infrastructure Configuration Network Configuration
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5 Single-click provisioning Intelligent resource allocation Automated, controlled delivery Result: Improved time to marketMinutesMinutes
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6 Self-service infrastructure provisioning Bare-metal and virtual Model-based automation – no scripting Built-in IaaS capability Self Service Portal, Cost model, Charge Back, Multi Tenancy securities, reporting Enforce best practices with consistent policies UCS Director End-to-End Infrastructure Management UCS Director End-to-End Infrastructure Management Network X86 Server HypervisorStorage
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7 UCS Director End-to-End Infrastructure Management UCS Director End-to-End Infrastructure Management 4 Switches10 UCS ServersVMWare or Microsoft2 Storage Controllers Central Management Self Service Catalog Adaptive Provisioning Dynamic capacity management Multiple-hypervisor support Computing management Network management Storage management Cloud Genie Provide higher value of infrastructure with management feature!
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8 Challenges: Long provision process UCSD Values: Instant ON deployment of IT services Break down IT Silos
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9 Challenges: Complex Tools for infrastructure -Visibility -Management UCSD Values: Simple Unified tool for -IT Administrator -End User
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10 Challenges: Complex Tools for infrastructure -Visibility -Management UCSD Values: Simple Unified tool for -IT Administrator -End User
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11 Challenges: Complex Tools for Storage infrastructure -Visibility -Management UCSD Values: Simple Unified tool for -IT Administrator -End User
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12 Challenges: Multiple tools required for -Resource usage monitoring -Chargeback -Reporting UCSD Values: Unified tool that addresses all the above requirement with single product
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13 Delivers IT efficiency to better align with business strategy Out of the box support for the most widely deployed converged infrastructure Simplicity: Turnkey Solution Ready for Use in Hours Open and flexible solution delivering multi-vendor IT infrastructure management Cisco’s unified management approach to reduce deployment time and effort across end-to-end : Physical & Virtual
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Cisco Confidential © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 14 DEMO
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 15 User experience with UCSD Use Case: Self Service VM Provisioning to showcase UCSD build in ITIL processes service request capabilities a. service tracking capabilities b.service approval capabilities c.highlight we support integration with external ITSM solution if required
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 16 User experience with UCSD Use Case: Benefit of UCSD to IT/Cloud Admin in support IT Operation a.IT Operation and Datacenter VISIBILITY b.use case of tracking customer complaint on VM performance issue c.IT Operation EFFICIENCY all from with UCSD Portal d.show VM lifecycle capabilities e.show UCS Service Profile management capabilities f.show NEXUS switch VLAN Inventory and creation g.show NETAPP Aggregate -> Volume -> LUN creation h.Summaried UCSD as the unified tool for IT Operation
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 17 User experience with UCSD Use Case: workflow design to simplicity a. showcase the 1000+ workflow tasks from UCSD b.showcase workflow orchestration and the simplicity c.Showcase publish workflow as catalog
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Cisco Confidential © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 18 BACKUP SLIDES UCS Director Product Strengths Infrastructure Management and Automation
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 19 Customer Pain Points: PRICING MODEL for RESOURCES USAGE in the Cloud Maintain a SINGLE AUTHENTICATION Account for Cloud logon BILLING and CHARGEBACK Capabilities Service Catalog Publishing TOO CONVOLUTED Flexible OOTB APPROVAL Process build in to the Tool minus the Complexity Cloud makes Operation MORE COMPLEX Flexibility to be able to ORDER SERVICES on Behalf of Customer vDC Complete Design Recommendation Datacenter VISIBILITY Dashboard for IT Operation and Datacenter VISIBILITY - Virtual Servers Configuration Inventory Dashboard for IT Operation and Datacenter VISIBILITY - Physical Server Configuration Inventory Dashboard for IT Operation and Datacenter VISIBILITY - Physical Server Firmware Inventory Dashboard for IT Operation and Datacenter VISIBILITY - Networks Configuration Inventory Dashboard for IT Operation and Datacenter VISIBILITY - Storages Configuration Inventory
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 20 Customer Pain Points: OPERATIONAL Efficiency Converged Infrastructure and Datacenter OPERATION - Virtual Server Lifecycle Management Converged Infrastructure and Datacenter OPERATION - Physical Server UCS Service Profile Management Converged Infrastructure and Datacenter OPERATION - Network Cisco NEXUS Configuration and Management Converged Infrastructure and Datacenter OPERATION - Storage Industry Best of Breed Physical Storages Provisioning Too Many Element Tools for IT Operation and Management and Disjoined Operational view of my Datacenter Elements End-to-End Provisioning of Insfrastructures Resources
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 21 Challenges: Old and New CPU of different Performance Charge by CPU Cores or CPU Speed (GHz) UCSD Values: Comprehensive Simplified Model based Service Offering Standard design Cisco UCSD uses both CPU Core and CPU Speed for allocating Cloud Resource. CPU Cost Baseline can be done on Subscription, Reserve and Usage Service Catalog uses CPU Core when ordering a Service Billing and Chargeback uses a combination of Subscribed/Reserve/Used CPU Resource
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 22 Challenges: Need a single User Account and Authentication mechanism to Microsoft Active Directory UCSD Values: Simplicity Simplified Authentication through Microsoft AD integration at 04 Levels Microsoft Active Directory ORGNAIZATION UNITS Microsoft Active Directory GROUPS Microsoft Active Directory USERS Microsoft Exchange Server for EMAIL
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 23 Challenges: Need a single unified tool for Billing and Chargeback Need for a Simple Chargeback as well as capabilities to integrate into Customer’s Enterprise Billing System. UCSD Values: Comprehensive Simplified Cost Model Policy to drive Chargeback Simplified Billing Data export to FTP server to be consumed by Customer’s Enterprise Billing System
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 24 Challenges: Need a single unified tool for Billing and Chargeback Need for a Simple Chargeback as well as capabilities to integrate into Customer’s Enterprise Billing System. UCSD Values: Comprehensive Simplified Cost Model Policy to drive Chargeback Simplified Billing Data export to FTP server to be consumed by Customer’s Enterprise Billing System
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 25 Challenges: Complexity in Managing Self Service Catalog and Orchestration Workflow Engine. Need a single unified and simple way to PUBLISH Service Catalog to Customer/End-User UCSD Values: Simplicity Simplified Service Catalog Design and Publishing Cisco UCSD support TWO mode of Service Catalog Provisioning VM Template Service Catalog (OOTB with 02 Approval Authority) Workflow Service Catalog (Approval Task available from the Workflow)
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 26 Challenges: Complexity in setting Self Service Catalog with APPROVAL design to customer business operation need. Need a simple way to PLUG in APPROVAL into Self Service Catalog Request UCSD Values: Simplicity Simplified Service Catalog Design and Publishing Cisco UCSD Orchestrator Workflow provide OOTB Approval Task
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 27 Challenges: IT Datacenter Operation is already COMPLEX enough Introduction of CLOUD is making more so. Thus impacting my ability to scale up with the current staffing I have UCSD Values: Reduce Complexity Single tool to for Cloud and Infrastructure Operation Management Simplified through Standardization and Policy Approach to drive Cloud and Datacenter Operation Cisco UCSD is the continuation of Cisco UCS success for Converged Infrastructure Management using Policies to drive automation Cisco started with UCS Service Profile to make management of Server simply Cisco UCSD continue our UCS approach with Policies to drive additional automation values with - Compute Policy (for Hypervisor) - Network Policy (for Nexus Switch) - Storage Policy (for Datastore) - Cost Model (for Billing n Chargeback)
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 28 Challenges: Data center have multiple hardware from multiple vendor. No unified tool to for Day-To-Day IT Operations UCSD Values: UCSD is Cisco answer to customer concern for a single tool to Simplified IT Operation. Cisco UCSD is especially effective with Cisco Datacenter Converged Infrastructure Stacks This includes best of breed like Cisco UCS Blade Servers Cisco Nexus Datacenter Switches Vmware and Microsoft Hypervisors NETAPP Flexpod and EMC VNX/VMAX Storages
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 29 Challenges: Customer wanted flexibility that Cloud Administrator able to order Services ON-THEIR-BEHALF when they not able to do it. UCSD Values: Operation Efficiency Simple UCSD Role Based Access Control can be granted for Cloud Administrator Access Rights to Customer vDC.
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 30 Challenges: Customer wanted flexibility that allows Cloud Administrator Publish Services Catalog a specific checkpoint in a Service Request for ITIL compliance. UCSD Values: Operation Efficiency Simple UCSD Workflow TASK control APPROVAL Process along the path of Execution.
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 31 Challenges: Single Authentication for the Cloud to eliminate multiple Authentication Machanism Integrate with Email Notification for the Cloud vDC Ordering Process for NEW Projects Single Business Unit managing Multiple Projects Dedicated Billing and Chargeback by Projects Requirement UCSD Values: Operation Efficiency Simple UCSD Role Based Access Control can be granted for Cloud Administrator Access Rights to Customer vDC. Customer using the vDC as a PROJECT with dedicated Billing records.
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Cisco Confidential © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 32 Datacenter VISIBILITY
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 33 Challenges: Many Elements Tools to operate and manage the Datacenter devices Constant switching between screens to get Visibility into Datacenter Resources UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation Visibility for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient Visibility into Datacenter Elements without overly flooding IT Operation with too much details
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 34 Challenges: Many Elements Tools to operate and manage the Datacenter devices Constant switching between screens to get Visibility into Datacenter Resources UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation Visibility for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient Visibility into Datacenter Elements without overly flooding IT Operation with too much details
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 35 Challenges: Many Elements Tools to operate and manage the Datacenter devices Constant switching between screens to get Visibility into Datacenter Resources UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation Visibility for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient Visibility into Datacenter Elements without overly flooding IT Operation with too much details
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 36 Challenges: Many Elements Tools to operate and manage the Datacenter devices Constant switching between screens to get Visibility into Datacenter Resources UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation Visibility for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient Visibility into Datacenter Elements without overly flooding IT Operation with too much details
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 37 Challenges: Many Elements Tools to operate and manage the Datacenter devices Constant switching between screens to get Visibility into Datacenter Resources UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation Visibility for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient Visibility into Datacenter Elements without overly flooding IT Operation with too much details
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Cisco Confidential © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 38 OPERATIONAL Efficiency
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 39 Challenges: Unfied Management of Converged Infrastructure including Hypervisor (vCenter/ Microsoft SCVMM) Physical Server (Cisco UCS) Networking (Cisco NEXUS Switches) Storage (NETAPP Flecpod, EMC VNX and VMAX) UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient OPERATION tasks into Datacenter Elements for IT Operation with a Single UCSD Interface
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 40 Challenges: Unfied Management of Converged Infrastructure including Hypervisor (vCenter/ Microsoft SCVMM) Physical Server (Cisco UCS) Networking (Cisco NEXUS Switches) Storage (NETAPP Flecpod, EMC VNX and VMAX) UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient OPERATION tasks into Datacenter Elements for IT Operation with a Single UCSD Interface
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 41 Challenges: Unfied Management of Converged Infrastructure including Hypervisor (vCenter/ Microsoft SCVMM) Physical Server (Cisco UCS) Networking (Cisco NEXUS Switches) Storage (NETAPP Flecpod, EMC VNX and VMAX) UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient OPERATION tasks into Datacenter Elements for IT Operation with a Single UCSD Interface
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 42 Challenges: Unfied Management of Converged Infrastructure including Hypervisor (vCenter/ Microsoft SCVMM) Physical Server (Cisco UCS) Networking (Cisco NEXUS Switches) Storage (NETAPP Flecpod, EMC VNX and VMAX) UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient OPERATION tasks into Datacenter Elements for IT Operation with a Single UCSD Interface
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 43 Challenges: Unfied Management of Converged Infrastructure including Hypervisor (vCenter/ Microsoft SCVMM) Physical Server (Cisco UCS) Networking (Cisco NEXUS Switches) Storage (NETAPP Flecpod, EMC VNX and VMAX) UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient OPERATION tasks into Datacenter Elements for IT Operation with a Single UCSD Interface
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 44 Challenges: Unfied Provisioning of Converged Infrastructure including Provisioning UCS Service Profile Provisioning ESXi 5.x Host Register ESXi 5.x Host with vCenter UCSD Values: Visibility UCSD provides IT Operation for Cisco Converged Stacks It provides Sufficient OPERATION tasks into Datacenter Elements for IT Operation with a Single UCSD Interface
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Cisco Confidential © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 45 Advanced Capabilities with Cloupia Scripting
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© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 46 Challenges: OOTB Operation does not meet my requirement Need to tweak the OOTB UCSD Task to perforrm operation I need with as little effort as possible to my Operation Team UCSD Values: code reuabilities UCSD exposed the TASKS in Javascript for Customer to Copy and Modify inside Cloupia Script Task
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