Cisco UCS Director 6 Guide
October 13, 2016Cisco UCS Director 6 is a cloud management platform that can deploy virtual machines and services across vSphere, KVM, Hyper-V and AWS endpoints. UCS Director will manage the orchestration, lifecycle and governance of virtual machines deployed through it and can also help in the automatic provisioning of hardware resources. Cisco has plenty of documentation on how to click the buttons to create constructs used for deployment, but I was not able to find any great resources on what order they should be performed in and why I’m making the choices in the GUI. If you follow this guide in the order of posts listed, it should help you to get a Cisco UCS Director 6 environment setup and be able to use it to deploy virtual resources. This guide does not cover many of the additional benefits that UCSD can provide when dealing with a physical environment. I hope that this guide can give you a good starting point on how the solution works and what you can do with it.
Cisco UCS Director Basic Setup Configurations
Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Setup
Cisco UCS Director Computing Policies
Cisco UCS Director Network Policies
Cisco UCS Director VMware Storage Policies
Cisco UCS Director System Policies
Cisco UCS Director Cost Models
Cisco UCS Director VMware Management Policies
Cisco UCS Director End User Self-Service Policies
Cisco UCS Director VDCs
Cisco UCS Director Catalogs
Cisco UCS Director Catalog Permissions Assignments
Cisco UCS Director Catalog Request
Additional Resources
Cisco UCS Director Official Documentation – https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/ucs-director-6-0/model.html
Cisco UCS Director Community Workflows – https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-56419
It seems vRealize is giving more feature than UCS director.
You can make up your own mind on that. The getting started guides on my site might not fully represent the full feature set.
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Hi Eric,
Could you please help me to know can we deploy/provision voice/collaboration applications like CUCM and etc using Cisco UCS director or prime service catalog or cloud center if you know please help me that would be great help for me and I would be grateful to you for your help ..looking forward to hearing from you asap
It can be done, yes.
Cisco UCS Director can be coded to deploy servers, execute APIs or run your own custom code.
I think Cisco UCS Director can help some of the deployment tasks because of what it has out of the box, but you will probably need to write some code to get it up and running. Seems like this is not a trivial task, but can be accomplished.
I hope this answers your question.
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