Administering Clusters on vSphere You can create, upgrade, modify, or delete vSphere on-premises Kubernetes clusters using the CCP web interface. CCP supports v2 and v3 clusters on vSphere. The v2 clusters use a single master node for its control plane, whereas the v3 clusters can use one or three master nodes for its control plane….
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Cisco Container Platform Architecture Overview At the bottom of the stack is Level 1, the Networking layer, which can consist of Nexus switches, Application Policy Infrastructure Controllers (APICs), and Fabric Interconnects (FIs). Level 2 is the Compute layer, which consists of HyperFlex, UCS, or third-party servers that provide virtualized compute resources through VMware and distributed…
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Cisco Container Platform Setting up, deploying, and managing multiple containers for multiple micro-sized services gets tedious—and difficult to manage across multiple public and private clouds. IT Ops has wound up doing much of this extra work, which makes it difficult for them to stay on top of the countless other tasks they’re already charged with…
Read moreUnderstanding Intersight Workload Optimizer Supply Chain – Cisco Management
Understanding Intersight Workload Optimizer Supply Chain Intersight Workload Optimizer models your environment as a market of buyers and sellers. It discovers different types of entities in your environment via the targets you have added, and it then maps these entities to the supply chain to manage the workloads they support. For example, for a hypervisor…
Read moreUnderstanding the Market and Virtual Currency – Cisco Management
Understanding the Market and Virtual Currency To perform application resource management, IWO models the environment as a market and then uses market analysis to manage resource supply and demand. For example, bottlenecks form when local workload demand exceeds the local capacity—in other words, when demand exceeds supply. By modeling the environment as a market, IWO…
Read moreHow Intersight Workload Optimizer Works – Cisco Management
How Intersight Workload Optimizer Works To keep your infrastructure in the desired state, IWO performs application resource management. This is an ongoing process that solves the problem of ensuring application performance while simultaneously achieving the most efficient use of resources and respecting environment constraints to comply to business rules. This is not a simple problem…
Read moreOptimize Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with IWO – Cisco Management
Optimize Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with IWO Application resource management is a top-down, application-driven approach that continuously analyzes applications’ resource needs and generates fully automatable actions to ensure applications always get what they need to perform. It runs 24/7/365 and scales with the largest, most complex environments. To perform application resource management, Intersight Workload Optimizer represents…
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Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer is a real-time decision engine that ensures the health of applications across your on-premises and public cloud environments while lowering costs. The intelligent software continuously analyzes workload demand, resource consumption, resource costs, and policy constraints to determine an optimal balance. Cisco IWO is an artificial intelligence for…
Read moreIT Challenges and Workload Management Solutions – Cisco Management
IT Challenges and Workload Management Solutions Managing application resources in a dynamic, hybrid cloud world is increasingly complex, and IT teams are struggling. With application components running on the premises and in public clouds, end users can suffer outages or experience slow application performance because IT teams simply lack visibility to see how things are…
Read moreCloud Monitoring with AppDynamics Cloud – Cisco Application, Analytics, and Workload Performance Management with AppDynamics
Cloud Monitoring with AppDynamics Cloud AppDynamics Cloud is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product that offers cloud-native and full-stack observability for large, managed Kubernetes deployments on public clouds (Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure). It provides real-time observability across your entire technology stack—applications, software-defined compute, storage, services, network, and other infrastructure—through the collection and…
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