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Cisco UCS Director Delivers Infrastructure as a Service
December 2015
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Figure 1. Cisco UCS Configuration Options
Function Capability Cisco UCS Director 5.4 HPE OneView 2.0
Orchestration
and automation
Orchestration
workflows
More than 100 preconfigured
workflows
Not available
Automation task
library
More than 1500 automated
tasks
Not available
Automated cloud
deployment
Yes Not available
Automated big
data deployment
Yes; Hadoop Not available
Self-service
provisioning
Processing of
service requests
Yes Not available
Dynamic
resource
allocation
Yes Not available
Lifecycle setup
and notification
Yes Not available
Budget validation
and approvals
Yes Not available
Heterogeneous
provisioning and
management
(in addition
to vendor
hardware)
Servers Cisco, HPE, Dell, and IBM No; HPE only
Networking Cisco, F5, Brocade,
and Citrix
Brocade Fibre Channel
switches, Cisco Nexus 5000
Series Switches and Cisco
Nexus 6001 and 6004 top-
of-rack [ToR] switches
Storage EMC, IBM, HDS, NetApp,
Nimble Storage, Pure
Storage, and StorMagic
No; HPE 3PAR only
Converged
infrastructure
NetApp FlexPod, SmartStack,
VCE Vblock, HDS Unified
Compute, and VersaStack
No; HPE CS700, CA700,
and CS300 with HPE 3PAR
storage only
Hyperconverged
infrastructure
Simplicity, Springpath No; HPE OneView Instant On
only, not HPE OneView
Extensibility
to other tools
and controller
platforms
Software-defined
networking
(SDN)
Cisco Intercloud Fabric™,
Cisco® Virtual Application
Cloud Segmentation (VACS)
Services, and Cisco Application
Policy Infrastructure Controller
(APIC)
Not supported
APIs Representational state
transfer (REST) and XML
REST only
Table 1. Comparison of Cisco UCS Director and HPE OneView IaaS Capabilities