UCS Data Center Management

The Client

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American MNC headquartered in San Jose, California. It develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other high-technology services and products.

Key Outcomes

Enhanced Cisco UCS cloud orchestration to manage 1000 systems with 1M objects.
Developed policy-based IaaS management for datacenter servers, routers, and connected systems.

Business Challenges

With unified fabric-based data centers, like Cisco’s UCS system, the key challenge was unifying the management of computing, network, storage, and virtualization into one platform. For Cisco, answering specific questions was an essential yet challenging task. These questions were: How can the management of all resource tiers in a data center be converged such that silos are eliminated and operational simplicity and elasticity is achieved? Will it be possible to integrate non-IT data center resources like heating, cooling, and power distribution to identify the optimum use of energy?

Business Impacts / Key Results Achieved

With unified fabric-based data centers, like Cisco’s UCS system, the key challenge was unifying the management of computing, network, storage, and virtualization into one platform. For Cisco, answering specific questions was an essential yet challenging task. These questions were: How can the management of all resource tiers in a data center be converged such that silos are eliminated and operational simplicity and elasticity is achieved? Will it be possible to integrate non-IT data center resources like heating, cooling, and power distribution to identify the optimum use of energy?

Strategy and Solutions

With unified fabric-based data centers, like Cisco’s UCS system, the key challenge was unifying the management of computing, network, storage, and virtualization into one platform. For Cisco, answering specific questions was an essential yet challenging task. These questions were: How can the management of all resource tiers in a data center be converged such that silos are eliminated and operational simplicity and elasticity is achieved? Will it be possible to integrate non-IT data center resources like heating, cooling, and power distribution to identify the optimum use of energy?

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