Cisco Cloud Computing - UCS Director - Interface Overview

Cisco UCS Director is a multi-hypervisor and multi-cloud management solution that provides virtual infrastructure control, management, and monitoring from a unified dashboard. The unified dashboard gives administrators complete visibility into organizational use, trends, capacity analysis details, and much more

1. Dashboard Menu

• The dashboard is completely customizable.

• Show the different preconfigured widgets available on the dashboard and how easy it is to:

• Adjust the size of the reports displayed on the Dashboard by using the slide bar ()

• Move the widgets around

• See and change different options for widgets

• Mouse over graph element to display popup tooltip

2. Virtual Menu

• The Virtual Menu has four submenus: Compute, Storage, Network, and VDI. Click through the submenus and discuss the available options and features. Suggested talking points:

• VM lifecycle operations

• Detailed components of an active VM

• Typical lifecycle operations and infrastructure components

• Snapshot summary of VMs that have been snapshotted and operations you can perform on them
• Storage utilization map

3. Physical Menu

• The Physical Menu has three submenus: Compute, Storage, and Network. Click through the submenus and discuss the available options and features based on customer interest. Suggested talking points:

• Physical infrastructure monitoring

• Chassis and server details

• Detailed information for storage

• Physical network details: VTP, Private VLANs, Port profiles, VSANs, VLANsSAN Zonesets, SAN Zones, QOS Policy Maps, and QOS Class Maps
  
  
  

4. Organizations Menu

• The Organizations Menu has six submenus: Service Requests, My Approvals, Summary, Virtual Resources, Physical Resources, and Chargeback. Click through the submenus and discuss the available options and features based on customer interest. Suggested talking points:

• Workflow status, log, and created or modified objects of a completed service request

• Rollback service request feature for a successfully completed request

• Resubmit service request features for a failed service request

5. Policies Menu

• The Policies Menu has six main submenus: Catalogs, Applications Containers, Virtual/Hypervisor Policies, Physical Infrastructure Policies, Tag Library and Orchestration. Click through the submenus and discuss the available options and features based on customer interest. Suggested talking points:

• Import and export functions and the ability to import more preconfigured workflows

• Task Library

• Alter orchestration flow by dragging a task

• Admin control of parameters the user can enter

• Hover over the “on success” and “on failure” actions of a task to show how you rewire

• Edit a trigger by picking a VM and parameter, and then build a rule
  
  
  
  6. Administration Menu
  The Administration Menu has 10 submenus: License, System, Users and Groups, Virtual Accounts, Physical Accounts, Integration, Mobile Access, User Interface Settings, Open Automation, and Support Information. Click through the submenus and discuss the available options and features based on customer interest.