Cisco is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Release 2.3 of the Cloud Service Assurance for VMDC (CLSA-VMDC) System, our reference architecture for Unified Data Center. This system provides consolidated fault & performance management with service-impact correlation on Cisco Unified DC compute, storage, virtualization and DC network components, with a single product approach. This release is compatible with VMDC 2.2, 2.3 and 3.0 and is positioned for Enterprise, Public Sector and Service Provider customers with a set of matching features and scaling capabilities.
This system is implemented through a Cisco development partnership with Zenoss Inc. It is available on Cisco GPL as a Solutions Plus product. Any orchestration solution can be complemented with the Zenoss CSA product.
Highlights
- Validated data center assurance design for Enterprise, Public sector or Service Provider scalability
- Out-of-the-box support for compute, virtualization, storage, and networking services
- Rapid system deployment through auto-discovery and dynamic modeling of Cisco cloud infrastructure
- Multi-tenant capable solution
- DC/Cloud services awareness and tenant / user level service impact analysis
- Trouble resolution time reduction by integrated root cause analysis
- Optional integration with orchestration software
- CLSA has been validated on VMDC 2.2, 2.3 and 3.0
New in this release:
- Additional device validation: ASA 5555, N7K SUP2, N7K F2 FC module, ACE 4710
- VMDC 2.3 certification
- Updated Design & Implementation Guide including VMDC 2.2, 2.3 and 3.0 assurance content
- EMC VNX storage service impact dependency correlation
The Cisco Validated Design, along with other collateral can be accessed at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns340/ns414/ns742/dz_cloudservice.html
CISCO LIVE Orlando
Invite your customers to Cisco Live Orlando BRKSPG-2681 Cloud Service Assurance for Virtualized Data Center and Hosted Applications breakout session and sign up for Meet the Engineer meetings to discuss DC/Cloud Assurance.
For Questions:
ask-clsa-external@cisco.com
Thanks
Johnny Tung
Systems Development Unit
