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Supporting Student Notes:

Cisco UCS Director was designed to operationally integrate the bare-metal and virtual data center infrastructure
resources to address complex, time-consuming, manual, and compartmentalized management processes. These
processes burden IT organizations, preventing them from achieving business agility and efficiency.

Cisco UCS Director delivers application-aware infrastructure containers tuned to the specific needs of each application.
Among its advantages, Cisco UCS Director:

• Accelerates application deployment by delivering application-aware infrastructure containers across virtual and
physical elements

• Supports Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure-based and Cisco Virtual Application Container Services automated
network solutions

• Supports a diverse range of workloads across development, test, and production environments

Because your data center comprises diverse technologies, Cisco UCS Director delivers heterogeneous infrastructure
management. The benefits include:

• Rapid adaptation to changing project requirements with a programmable task library spanning varied server, storage,
and virtualization vendors

• Extensive enhancements for VMware, VCE, and EMC solution components

• Integration of third-party solutions into the Cisco UCS Director management platform with a publicly available software
development kit