Cisco public local edition cloud orchestration with ucs director edward. Cisco said it has released free software updates that address the vulnerabilities and has fixed the vulnerabilities in ucs director release 6. Ucs director lets customers build privatecloud systems and supports automated provisioning processes and orchestration to optimize and simplify delivery of datacenter resources, the company said. Ibm, hp, vmware vendorauthorized certification training. Cisco ucs director unifies and automates endtoend it converged infrastructure management processes. Cisco puts ucs director on death row, to be replaced by. Ucs director basic setup configurations the it hollow.
I was immediately excited about the possibilities this software brings to the table. Designing and deploying cisco ucs director with aci ucsdaci. Orchestration with ucs director workflows zenoss it monitor. Cisco ucs director enables a foundation for open private cloud infrastructure as a service iaas and orchestration across cisco and thirdparty hardware product overview. If you can get around these, ucs director is a fantastic orchestration tool. Ucs d has fantastic physical orchestration that starts to run out of steam require more coding at scale in the virtual world when you move onto integrations and business policy. What does cisco ucs director offer your data center. End toend data center infrastructure automation with cisco ucs. Ucsdav advanced ucs director orchestration and workflows. Jan 15, 2016 cisco ucs director was designed with a lot of outofthebox functionality, such as the selfservice portal.
Cisco ucs director cisco systemss sdn and nfv product. Automates provisioning and management of converged infrastructures works with others. Rather, cisco ucs director uses orchestration to automate some of the. Ucs director workflow development can be done within the gui. The cisco ucs director foundation ucsdf version 6x course is a fiveday instructorled, handson, cisco ucs training course.
It supports a variety of hypervisors along with cisco and thirdparty servers, network, storage, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure across baremetal and virtualized environments. We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data centers infrastructure. The three layers of it orchestration cdw solutions blog. Finally, ucs director will automate what is a large chunk of your existing it infrastructure, and can be called by psc or run in environments without psc. Normally, ucs director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a noncisco data infrastructure components, the ucs director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with thirdparty systems and with existing older systems. Ucs director schulung ucs director training ucs director. This course is a handson course that enables participants to understand the different features of ucs director software to manage physical and virtual infrastructure elements including aci. Aug 05, 2016 finally, ucs director will automate what is a large chunk of your existing it infrastructure, and can be called by psc or run in environments without psc.
Cisco ucs director rest api capabilities metsi technologies. Ucs director is ciscos orchestration and automation tool and provides programmability into compute, network, and storage. The audience for this course is channel partner reseller, customer, or employee. Cisco ucs director orchestrator further automates these complex tasks by organizing them into workflows. This is the first vod on cisco ucs director, which is ciscos infrastructure orchestration software. Cisco ucs director foundation ciucsdf mx tech data academy. Cisco ucs director enables you to automate a wide array of tasks and use cases across a wide variety of supported cisco and noncisco hardware and software data center components, including physical infrastructure automation at the compute, network, and storage layers. Customers using onprem enterprise software like ucs director traditionally go through a delayed patch and upgrade process. Significant fullstack experience developing software using java, javascript, cloupia script. Apr 02, 2017 this is the first vod on cisco ucs director, which is ciscos infrastructure orchestration software. Advanced ucs director orchestration and workflows duration. Use the orchestration engine and build workflows with ssh and or rest calls in, that can then configure your infrastructure for you use the ucs director software development kit and extend the native ucs director behaviors. The designing and deploying cisco ucs director with aci ucsdaci v6. Partner marketers, sellers, technical engineers, distributors, and executives.
Advanced ucs director orchestration and workflows ucsdav duration. These tasks are organized in folders based on their functionality and can be accessed in the left panel of the workflow designer interface. The course offers handson experience installing and configuring cisco ucs director software. This training course will enable cisco end customers and authorized cisco system engineers ses to understand the concepts, architecture, and use. Ucs director, in a nutshell, is the software that creates a private cloud. After youve changed the password, youll need to relogin to the ucs director portal. Ucs director is a heterogeneous iaas management platform. Only have to pay for maintenance which is optional. Automate the orchestration of tasks through the rest apis. Several different types of service catalogs can be used within ucs director, and each team in an enterprise may use different ones. Participants will be given a set of requirements to implement using the ucs director solution on an. The standard catalog is the basic offering for end. Ucsdav advanced ucs director orchestration and workflows v1.
You will also learn about features such as baremetal provisioning. Ucs director superuser tags help extend selfservice portal. How to use ciscos ucs director to automate the creation of a. Customize the features for building proof of concepts. You will learn to use orchestration and automation functions of cisco ucs director to effectively manage infrastructure and automate it. The software helps ensure that infrastructure layers are synchronized, optimized, and available on demand. Workflows are the heart of the cisco ucs director orchestrator. While that portal can do a lot, there are ways it can be extended to provide more support that will facilitate a larger user base and set of use cases. Sep 22, 2017 cisco has announced that ucs director will ascend into the cloud as part of a new infrastructure management service named intersight. Hartford, ct on september 10, 2014 cisco cloud specialist ed mcgetrick and kelsers chief technology officer jonathan stone presented a summary of ciscos ucs director. Dec 04, 2017 ucs director is an open platform that provides infrastructure management, automation and orchestration across cisco and a variety of third party systems and software. Cisco ucs director management guide for cisco ucs manager. Earners have learned how to implement management and orchestration software for cisco ucs and can configure key features of cisco ucs, cisco ucs director, and cisco.
And sauls integration uses the standard zenoss trigger and notification system to launch the workflow, so its easy to add to your existing deployment. Cisco ucs director delivers unified management and orchestration for the indus. Brkdct1456 extending the cisco ucs director with orchestrator, apis and the open automation framework. Endtoend data center infrastructure automation with cisco ucs director orchestrator, workflows and tasks tejo prayaga product manager. Its pretty easy to install and is being touted as a. It professionals gathered for lunch at kelsers east hartford demo center to learn how the software unifies and automates endtoend it converged infrastructure management. Using the sdk may seem daunting at first and it will take some reading to understand all of the classes, files, etc. In part 4 of ucs director i am going to cover the automation features, more specifically. Ucs director is ciscos answer to orchestration and monitoring for the entire data center stack, from storage to guest operating system. Learn how to configure ucs director software to manage integrated infrastructure. Setup the mail server to send alerts from ucs director. Jun 12, 2014 ucs director is ciscos answer to orchestration and monitoring for the entire data center stack, from storage to guest operating system.
There are also a lot of prebuilt workflows that come with ucs director, simple tasks like vm provisioning from templates or new vms from iso are some of the examples of the builtin workflows. Multicloud is dynamic, so you need an open and flexible approach. You build workflows using the workflow designer, a draganddrop interface. Supported netapp device with the cisco ucs director c. Cisco ucs director is a software solution that lets you use automation to deliver and manage infrastructure as a service iaas. The cisco ucs director orchestrator also called the cisco ucs director orchestration engine, or just orchestration enables it administrators. When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Automation delivers the essential scale, speed, and repeatable accuracy that your business needs to increase productivity and respond quickly to business opportunities.
Netapp and cisco ucs director integration use cases viii. Cisco ucs director has a task library containing hundreds of predefined tasks that cover most of the actions an administrator needs to perform using orchestration. Once youre logged in, the default password should be changed and ucs director will prompt you to change this. By automating the configuration, management and interoperability of disparate computer systems, applications and services, orchestration can free it from the. Advanced ucs director orchestration and workflowsucsdav. We, at metsi, have used this method many times to connect to external rest api based systems, within a workflow to create seamless interaction with external systems. By starting the product name with the word ucs, it can be misleading. Jan 07, 2016 cisco ucs director has a task library containing hundreds of predefined tasks that cover most of the actions an administrator needs to perform using orchestration. Differences between vrealize automation and ucs director. Cisco ucs director orchestrator contains predefined tasks that you can use to create workflows. The cisco ucs director orchestrator also called the cisco ucs director orchestration engine, or just orchestration enables it administrators to automate cloud deployment and provisioning and to standardize it services. Cisco has announced that ucs director will ascend into the cloud as part of a new infrastructure management service named intersight.
Ucs director is an open platform that provides infrastructure management, automation and orchestration across cisco and a variety of third party systems and software. In cases where there is no suitable predefined task, you can create custom tasks. It allows you to manage multiple ucs domains with a single interface. On 91014, it professionals met at kelsers east hartford demo center to discuss ucs director. This training course will enable cisco end customers and authorized cisco system engineers ses to understand the concepts, architecture, and use cases that are related to the cisco ucs director deployment. Implementing automation for cisco data center solutions. This advanced ucs director orchestration and workflows ucsdav course is offered multiple times in a variety of locations and training topics. Sep 12, 2014 on 91014, it professionals met at kelsers east hartford demo center to discuss ucs director. Orchestration refers to software platforms and services that automate and orchestrate key it and business processes to help streamline and simplify operations management for it personnel. What is important to know is that cisco is constantly working to improve their product. Earners of this credential have a strong foundation in deploying, securing, operating, and maintaining cisco unified computing system bseries blade servers, cisco ucs cseries, and sseries rack servers for use in data centers.
Ucs director a strategic iaas evolution cisco blogs. You will examine cisco application centric infrastructure cisco aci, softwaredefined networking sdn for data center and cloud networks, cisco nexus cisco nxos platforms for devicecentric automation, and cisco unified computing system cisco ucs for data center compute. Mar 19, 2019 customers using onprem enterprise software like ucs director traditionally go through a delayed patch and upgrade process. Navigate to policies orchestration workflows, choose user vm action policy, then add the policy to a virtual data center vdc. Im told many of these issues are being addressed in ucs director v6. Cisco ucs director team is pleased to announce the support for ibm storwize v7000 unified, san volume controller svc and versastack in cisco ucs director with 5. Participants will be given a set of requirements to implement using the ucs director solution on an infrastructure using various scenarios. Cloud orchestration with ucs director linkedin slideshare. Dec 04, 2015 ucs director workflow development can be done within the gui.
If youve used ucs director workflows with zenoss software, or used another orchestration package for the same purpose, id like to hear from. Cisco ucs director training session 1 technical overview. As a result, they do not realize the benefits of new capabilities for 36 months, or even longer, after a product release, due to delays in operational processes. Deploy and configure ucs director, single virtual datacenter configured with 2 service catalog items for vm provisioning. Radical streamlining of infrastructure provisioning and management from weeks to minutes. Ucsdf ucs director foundation training course cisco. Here we expand cisco ucs director rest api capabilities using a datapump, a set of code to perform a collection of data activities making orchestration activities simpler. Oct 11, 2016 once youre logged in, the default password should be changed and ucs director will prompt you to change this. All threethough they represent different waves individuallyset the atmosphere users should expect to navigate and send us towards the goal of agile and automated it. Brkini2201 deploying cisco ucs in modern datacenters. Cisco ucs director acts as the orchestra conductor for it operations. Brkaci2410 management and automation of application centric infrastructure aci with cisco ucs director.
Data center deployment automation of iaas using cisco ucs director and workflow orchestration. Jim weegar georgia state university greater atlanta area. This cisco ucs director training course will enable cisco endcustomers and authorized cisco system engineers ses to understand the concepts, architecture, and use cases that are related to the cisco ucs director. The ucsdf training course will enable cisco end customers and authorized cisco system engineers ses to understand the concepts, architecture, and use cases that are related to the cisco ucs director deployment. Monitoring and managing the cluster mode netapp storage devices with the cisco ucs director f. Cisco ucs director provides the following entities to aid in rest development. Due to launch in q4, 2017, intersight is the product.
Demonstrate the restrelated tools available with cisco ucs director. Supplying vital support to the global oil and gas industry with cisco servers pdf 3 mb infrastructure for the oil and gas industry pdf 3 mb documentation roadmaps. You should at the end of this course be able to build effective business processes around infrastructure automation and orchestration. If youve used ucs director workflows with zenoss software, or used another orchestration package for the same purpose, id. Cisco ucs director is a heterogeneous platform for private cloud infrastructure as a service iaas. To be clear, a true private cloud as i would define it, contains compute, network, and storage with a middleware for automation, multitenancy, orchestration, monitoring, and selfservice workload provisioning. A customer specific proof of value of ucs director.
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