Industry Solutions aimed at matching the needs of the maximum automation of important business processes.
A single platform for OPEX optimization, which contains capabilities of fast and efficient configuration, automatization and management of the entire lifecycle of a variety of resources, including data center networking, compute and data storage resources. Platform contains capabilities of software integration with high-level business applications and self-service portal for end users.
Business Objectives
- Reducing cost of data center components to manage.
- Quick and flexible data center infrastructure configuration with new projects or changes to the current projects requirements.
- Reorientation of IT staff from performing routine infrastructure configuration tasks to support the development of business applications.
- Service-oriented approach to information technology.
- An effective solution to the problem of lack employee skills for setting up and maintainmulti-component data center equipment from different vendors.
- Strict regulation and control of data center infrastructure and resources configuration; standardization.
- Time predictability to prepare infrastructure for business projects, precise planning and calculation of metrics for projects.
Solution Description
Cisco UCS Director
Unified automatization system with open API for managing and configure whole data center, based of multi-vendor equipment, including Cisco Systems. It includes elements to manage rack and blade servers, virtualization software, including separate virtual machines, network components: traditional and converged. UCS director can securely virtualize large data center to multiple data centers by means of virtualizing every component: server, network, storage for different business units, different applications and different business projects. UCS director provides service oriented IT services: user self-service portal and can be integrated with billing system to monetize services provided by data center.
Benefits
- Support multi-vendor equipment and systems: EMC, NetApp, VCE, HP, IBM.
- Model-based orchestration: UCS Director contains about 400 atomic operations and graphs consisting of atomic operations to perform any task. For example, create a subnet, VRF-lite, configure FC-zoning, connect to server subnet, provide place on storage systems to deploy virtual machine. Every UCS director performed operation is checked for successfulness.
- Provides self-service portal, where users can request resources for projects, obtain manager confirmation and UCS director will automatically deploy and provide virtual data center to user.
- Feedback: each configuration task is transparent to user requesting the service.
- Administrator Role-based access for configuration tasks with different employees.
- Create a fully customized atomic steps of data center configuration for flexibility to control every data center system.
