White Paper Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service A Comparison with HPE OneView December 2015 What You Will Learn This document describes how the depth and breadth of Cisco UCS® Director’s capabilities uniquely enable the delivery of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), in contrast to the limited hardware provisioning capabilities of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) OneView. © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public information.
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 Contents Infrastructure as a Service Enables Business Speed and Agility........................ 3 Cisco UCS Director Delivers IaaS..................................................................... 4 Orchestration and Automation.......................................................................... 4 Broad Orchestration Capabilities............................................................................
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service White Paper December 2015 Infrastructure as a Service Enables Business Speed and Agility IaaS helps you create a business that can quickly adjust to changing market forces.
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 delivers exactly this capability.
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 Table 1. Comparison of Cisco UCS Director and HPE OneView IaaS Capabilities Function Capability Cisco UCS Director 5.4 HPE OneView 2.
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 your organizational structure. User authentication and authorization information can be imported from the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) service. Tasks and workflows automate the configuration of all hardware infrastructure layers, including computing, networking, and storage (Figure 1). You can provision baremetal servers, add virtualization layers, and add your chosen operating systems.
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 Although OneView automates deployment of some of HPE’s product portfolio, Cisco UCS Director comes with a toolbox of predefined tasks that you can combine to create workflows that not only direct Cisco UCS to apply Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) service profiles, but also to provision other third-party servers in your data center, access-layer switching infrastructure, storage configuration, and operating system and hypervis
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 “Image Streamer provides a highly-available appliance pair that can capture/ edit/store images, create stateless boot images, and deploy or update compute modules quickly. Profiles are combined with golden images and personalities for stateless operation. Stateless boot images are stored in an image repository for fast implementation onto compute hardware at any time.
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 The result is secure and elastic cloud capacity, lower costs, and fast access to resources. With private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, you have the flexibility to source IT services based on your business needs, IT requirements, and desired consumption models.
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 networking, and storage resources that are primarily software defined: --SimpliVity: Cisco UCS with SimpliVity OmniStack --Springpath: Cisco UCS with Springpath Data Platform • The entire Cisco UCS server portfolio • Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers • Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers • Cisco UCS M-Series Modular Servers (Cisco Composable Infrastructure) • Cisco UCS C3260 Rack Server (Cisco Composable Infrastructure) • Cisco UCS Mini • Cis
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 Figure 3. The Self-Service Portal Gives Users What They Need with a Quick Response servers, virtual machines, services, and applications. Administrators can establish an orchestration workflow as a catalog item in the service portal. Users can request infrastructure through the portal and can customize the request to fit their needs. Cisco UCS Director can add approval and budget validation steps to the ordering process if needed.
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 Cisco Prime Service Catalog Provisions Applications into Application Containers Cisco UCS Director Creates Application Containers by Provisioning Computing, Networking, and Storage Infrastructure Apache Web Server Provisions Virtual Machines Load Balancer Cisco ACI Application Profile Oracle Java HotSpot JVM Creates Secure Multitenant Environment Oracle Database Provisions Virtualized Environments Provisions Bare-Metal Envir
Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service December 2015 Fuel Your Business with Accelerated and Agile IT OneView was never intended to provide IaaS, and although Synergy will come close, it supports only the Synergy platform. You can get capabilities similar to those that Cisco UCS Director provides if you want the complexity and expense of combining OneView with SAVA to support third-party infrastructure, and Operations Orchestration to provide orchestration.
