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Patrick Strick, Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp
Henry Vail, Senior Architect, NetApp
Michael Zimmerman, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco
Cisco UCS Director & FlexPod

2. Operational Challenge
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• Infrastructure silos resulting in
under complex, manual processes
• Management complexity > 75% of
budgets spent on operational costs
• Under utilization of resources
Traditional Data Center Transformational Data Center
• Pre-sized storage, network
and server
• Scales non-disruptive to
large scale IT environments
• Clustered ONTAP
transparent migration of data
• Non-disruptively move data
across clusters

3. Cisco UCS Director
• Perfect complement for
FlexPod
• Converts manual processes
into automated tasks
• Delivers infrastructure in
minutes
• Automated workflows =
consistency & efficiency
• Simplifies management with
single view of all infrastructure
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4. UCS Director with FlexPod
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5. Task Based Workflow Creation
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6. Orchestration Matters
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Script-based Orchestration Model-based Orchestration

7. Demo
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8. Resources
• Learn more about UCS Director
- www.cisco.com/go/ucsdirector
• Technical Report on UCS Director with FlexPod – NetApp TR-
4298
- Including example ONTAP 8 workflows
• UCS Director on Cisco Communities
- Q&A
- Downloadable workflows and other add-ons
- https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/ucs
_management/content?filterID=contentstatus[published]~category[u
cs-director]
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9. Thank You
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