Cisco Virtual Application Cloud Segmentation (VACS) Services User guide

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Cisco Virtual Application Cloud Segmentation (VACS) Services offers a wide range of capabilities to help you deploy and manage virtualized applications efficiently. With VACS, you can:

  • Automate the deployment of complex virtual applications with pre-defined templates and policies.
  • Simplify the management of virtualized networks and security services through a centralized console.
  • Improve the security of your virtualized environment with built-in firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities.
  • Reduce the cost of deploying and managing virtualized applications by eliminating the need for manual configuration and troubleshooting.

Cisco Virtual Application Cloud Segmentation (VACS) Services offers a wide range of capabilities to help you deploy and manage virtualized applications efficiently. With VACS, you can:

  • Automate the deployment of complex virtual applications with pre-defined templates and policies.
  • Simplify the management of virtualized networks and security services through a centralized console.
  • Improve the security of your virtualized environment with built-in firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities.
  • Reduce the cost of deploying and managing virtualized applications by eliminating the need for manual configuration and troubleshooting.
Cisco Virtual Application Container Services Self-Service Portal User
Guide, Release 5.1STV1.0
First Published: October 31, 2014
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CONTENTS
Preface
Preface v
Audience v
Document Conventions v
Documentation Feedback vii
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request vii
CHAPTER 1
Overview 1
About Cisco Virtual Application Container Services 1
About the Self-Service Portal 1
Logging Into the Cisco UCS Director 2
Understanding the Self-Service Portal 2
Related Documentation for the Cisco Virtual Application Container Services 3
CHAPTER 2
Using Self-Service Provisioning 5
About Service Requests 5
Service Request Workflows 6
Creating a Service Request for Service Container Catalogs 6
Viewing the Service Request Status 7
CHAPTER 3
Managing Service Requests 9
Managing Service Requests 9
Cancelling a Service Request 9
Viewing the Service Request History for a Group 9
Searching the Service Request History for a Group 10
Exporting Group Service Requests History 10
CHAPTER 4
Performing VM Lifecycle Management 11
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About VM Lifecycle Management Actions 11
Viewing All VMs 11
Managing VM Power 12
Viewing VM Details 13
Launching VM Client 13
Requesting Inventory Collection for VM 14
CHAPTER 5
Viewing Physical Reports 15
Viewing Reports about Physical Resources 15
CHAPTER 6
Viewing Account Resources 17
Viewing Resource Accounting Details 17
CHAPTER 7
Viewing the End User Dashboard 19
Enabling the End User Dashboard View 19
Adding Reporting Widgets 19
CHAPTER 8
Working with the Cisco VACS Self-Service Portal 21
Creating a Service Request 21
Viewing Reports 22
Types of Reports 23
Powering on the Application Container 23
Powering off the Application Container 24
Adding Virtual Machines 24
Deleting Virtual Machines 26
Configuring Static NAT to the Virtual Machines 26
Configuring ERSPAN 27
Deleting Application Containers 28
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Contents
Preface
This preface contains the following sections:
•Audience, page v
•Document Conventions, page v
•Documentation Feedback, page vii
•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page vii
Audience
This publication is for administrators and end users who configure and maintain virtualization environments.
This guide is for administrators and end users with the following experience and knowledge:
•An understanding of virtualization
•An understanding of virtualized network and security services
•An understanding of the corresponding virtualization management software, such as VMware vCenter
and Cisco UCS Director
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Document Conventions
Documentation Feedback
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Documentation Feedback
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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
CHAPTER 1
Overview
This chapter contains the following sections.
•About Cisco Virtual Application Container Services, page 1
•About the Self-Service Portal, page 1
•Related Documentation for the Cisco Virtual Application Container Services, page 3
About Cisco Virtual Application Container Services
Cisco Virtual Application Container Services Cisco VACS is a software solution that automates the coordinated
licensing, installation, and deployment of multiple virtual services in your datacenter to enable an easy and
efficient setup of virtualized applications. Cisco VACS provides a fully customizable extended application
container abstraction to simplify deploying and provisioning the virtual services. Cisco VACS allows you to
define extended application container templates and to instantiate them through automated setup and
provisioning of the underlying virtual components. Cisco UCS Director provides the management interface
to deploy, provision, and monitor the Cisco VACS solution.
Cisco VACS provides you with a choice of ready-to-use application container templates that define the rules
for deploying a collection of virtual machines (VMs) within a private network secured by a firewall. An
application container is a set of virtual services such as virtual switches, routers, firewalls, and other network
devices configured in a consistent manner to deploy different workloads. When you create and instantiate an
application container template, Cisco VACS deploys VMs, and configures networks, the firewall, and virtual
switches, and enables quick provisioning of network and security at the virtual layer.
For information about Cisco UCS Director and its features and benefits, see About Cisco UCS Director.
About the Self-Service Portal
You can use the Cisco UCS Director Self-Service Portal for self-service provisioning, monitoring, and
management capabilities. With theSelf-Service Portal, you can access virtual machines that are provisioned
from a pool of assigned resources by using predefined policies.
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This document describes the Self-Service Portal for a service end user only. For information on the
Self-Service Portal for administrators, see the http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/
servers-unified-computing/ucs-director/products-maintenance-guides-list.html.
Attention
Logging Into the Cisco UCS Director
Step 1 In the Address field of the browser, enter the IP address of the Cisco UCS Director and press Enter.
The Cisco UCS Director login page appears.
Step 2 Enter the username and password in the Username and Password fields, and click Login.
The Cisco UCS Director home page appears.
Understanding the Self-Service Portal
This section describes the Self-Service portal and the Cisco VACS features that you can access using Cisco
UCS Director.
Figure 1: Self-Service Portal
Table 1: Elements of the Self-Service Portal
DescriptionNumber
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Logging Into the Cisco UCS Director
The Menu bar displays tabs that allow you to view the Cisco VACS
solution interface, along with the UCS Director Self-Service tabs.
1
The sub menu displays the tabs that provide details corresponding to
the menu tabs.
2
The subset menu displays the Cisco VACS features that allow you to
delete a container, power on/off a container, add and delete VMs, and
configure the ERSPAN and Static NAT features.
3
The Application Containers area displays the available containers.4
This sub menu displays buttons that allows you to do the following:
•customize the table
•export reports
•add an advance filter
•search
5
This sub menu displays buttons that allows you to do the following:
•view user information
•log out of the Cisco UCS Director interface
•view the Cisco web page
•view information about the Cisco UCS Director
•view the Cisco UCS Director Online Help
•search for objects
6
Related Documentation for the Cisco Virtual Application
Container Services
This section lists the documents used with the Cisco VACS components and are available on Cisco.com at
the following URL:
Cisco Virtual Application Container Services Documentation
General Information
Cisco Virtual Application Container Services Release Notes
Installation
Cisco Virtual Application Container Services Installation Guide
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Related Documentation for the Cisco Virtual Application Container Services
Configuration
Cisco Virtual Application Container Services Configuration Guide
User Information
Cisco Virtual Application Container Self-Service Portal User Guide
Nexus 1000V Documentation
For the Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere Documentation:
Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere Documentation
Prime Network Services Controller Documentation
Prime Network Services Controller Documentation
Cloud Services Router 1000V Documentation
Cloud Services Router 1000V Documentation
Virtual Security Gateway Documentation
Cisco Virtual Security Gateway Documentation
UCS Director Documentation
UCS Director Documentation
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CHAPTER 2
Using Self-Service Provisioning
This chapter contains the following sections.
•About Service Requests, page 5
•Service Request Workflows, page 6
•Creating a Service Request for Service Container Catalogs, page 6
•Viewing the Service Request Status, page 7
About Service Requests
You can use the self-service provisioning feature to create a service request to provision virtual machines
(VMs), services, or applications. The service request process produces a provisioning workflow for VM
creation that includes the following actions:
•Budget validation
•Dynamic resource allocation
•Approvals
•Provisioning
•Life cycles setup and notification
If you change the number of CPU Cores or memory allocation while in the Deployment Configuration
pane, the total cost is automatically updated and displayed.
Note
To provision a VM or execute an orchestration workflow, you must first create a service request. Once an
administrator or a relevant user approves the service request, the VM is provisioned. VMs can be immediately
approved or scheduled to be approved within a maximum of 90 days from the original request.
The service request approval process is optional.Note
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An administrator can provide an orchestration workflow as a catalog to a service portal. The approval process
for a service request requires approval by one or two users. In such a scenario, an administrator and IT manager
would have to approve the request before the VM can be provisioned.
Service Request Workflows
The service request workflow can be summarized into several stages:
•Initiation—Service request initiation.
•Resource Allocation—Resources required for VM provisioning.
•Approval—The group's virtual data center (vDC) defines the approval process for a service request.
The service request approver is sent an email that describe the request. Once the approver approves the
request, the VM is provisioned.
•Provision—The act of provisioning a VM.
•Setup Lifecycle Schedule—The scheduled and termination time.
•Notify—An email notice is sent to the user stating the VM is provisioned.
If defined, the following process may also be applicable to the service request workflow:
•Budget Watch (Optional)—This process determines if sufficient resources are available to provision
a VM for the group. You can view a resource by choosing the Organization >Resource limit tab. After
you submit a request, you can view its status by choosing View Details.
Creating a Service Request for Service Container Catalogs
The administator publishes catalogs to a group and end users choose the required catalog to create a service
request. A catalog published by the administrator can be a standard catalog (VM creation), advanced catalog
(orchestration workflow), service container (application container), or a VDI (Xen Desktop).
Before You Begin
This type of service request requires that a service container catalog be available for selection.
Step 1 On the menu bar, choose Service >Service Requests.
Step 2 Click Create Request.
Step 3 In the Create Service Request dialog box (Catalog Selection pane), complete the following fields:
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DescriptionName
The type of catalog type. Choose one of the following:
•Standard—This catalog type is used for standard
catalogs.
•Advanced—This catalog type is used exclusively for
the orchestration workflow.
•Service Container—This catalog type is used in
application containers.
•VDI—This catalog type is used with Xen Desktop.
Catalog Type drop-down list
Choose a VM to be provisioned. A catalog is a VM in a
catalog format.
Select Catalog drop-down list
Step 4 In the Catalog Type drop-down list, choose Service Container.
The Create Service Request page appears.
Step 5 Choose a catalog from the Catalog drop-down list.
Step 6 Click Next.
Step 7 In the Summary pane, review the information for accuracy, and then click Submit..
The Submit Result dialog box confirms that the service request was submitted successfully.
What to Do Next
View your existing service requests.
Viewing the Service Request Status
Before You Begin
Create a service request.
Step 1 Choose Services >Service Request.
Step 2 Choose a service request.
Step 3 Click View Details.
The Service Request screen provides the details regarding the service request and the related workflow steps. From this
page you view the status for each workflow step. Details, such as the time, are also displayed in addition to each step's
status (color-coded).
•Grey—Indicates the step still needs to be completed.
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•Green—Indicates the step completed successfully.
•Red—Indicates the step failed. The reason for the failure is also specified under the step.
•Blue—Indicates more input is required from the user for the step to be completed. For example, if an approver was
defined for this service request, blue indicates that the service request is waiting for approval.
DescriptionName
Overview section
The service request ID number.Request ID field
The type of request (for example, VM)Request Type field
The name of the workflow.Workflow Name field
The time the service request was created.Request Time field
The status of the service request (for example, Complete,
Canceled, or Failed).
Request Status field
Comments added during the service request creation.Comments field
Ownership section
The group to which the user requesting the service request
belongs.
Group field
The user who initiated the service request.Initiating User field
Approvers can view service requests that need their approval under the Approvals
tab.
Note
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CHAPTER 3
Managing Service Requests
This chapter contains the following sections.
•Managing Service Requests, page 9
Managing Service Requests
You can view, resubmit, and cancel previously submitted service requests. You can also view a group's service
request history.
Cancelling a Service Request
After submitting a service request, you can cancel it for any reason.
Before You Begin
Creating a service request.
Step 1 On the menu, choose Services >Service Requests.
Step 2 Choose the service request entry that needs to be canceled.
Step 3 Click Cancel Request.
Step 4 Click Submit to cancel the service request.
Viewing the Service Request History for a Group
End users can view all service requests created.
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Before You Begin
Create a service request.
On the menu bar, click Services and choose the Service Requests tab (see step 1 above).
Searching the Service Request History for a Group
End users can search request history for any group.
Before You Begin
Create a service request.
Step 1 On the menu bar, choose the Services >Service Request tab.
Step 2 Enter the text or service request number in the search field.
Criteria can be any text from any of the
columns.
Note
Exporting Group Service Requests History
Reports of service requests for all groups or any particular group can be exported into a tabular format.
Before You Begin
Creating service requests.
Step 1 On the menu bar, choose Services >Service Requests.
Step 2 Click the Export Report icon to generate a report of service requests.
Reports can be exported in PDF, CSV, or XLS format.
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Searching the Service Request History for a Group
CHAPTER 4
Performing VM Lifecycle Management
This chapter contains the following sections.
•About VM Lifecycle Management Actions, page 11
•Managing VM Power, page 12
•Viewing VM Details, page 13
•Launching VM Client, page 13
•Requesting Inventory Collection for VM, page 14
About VM Lifecycle Management Actions
You can perform post provisioning lifecycle management actions that are permitted by administrators. You
can also view the entire list of virtual machines (VMs) provisioned using service requests under their group.
All VMs that belong to a particular group are displayed. The available lifecycle management actions are as
follows You are also allowed to manage the power usage of a VM.
Viewing All VMs
The viewing all VMs feature displays all of the VMs and their details such as VM ID, host name, IP address
and power state.
To view the VM actions on a VM, the administrator has to give permission by checking the End User
Self-Serve options in the group's vDC.
Note
Step 1 On the menu bar, click Virtual Resources and choose the VMs tab.
Step 2 Choose a VM entry from the list or right-click on a VM to bring up available actions for that VM.
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Manage the VMs resources.
Managing VM Power
Managing a VM's power functions includes power on, powering off, suspending power, resetting the VM and
more.
Before You Begin
Provision a VM.
Step 1 Click Virtual Resources and choose VMs.
Step 2 Right-click on a VM and choose Power On.
In the VM Task dialog box, complete the following fields:
DescriptionName
Name of the VM.VM Name field
Selected power management task.Task field
Enter comments if required.Comments field
Specify either to power on the VM now or at a specific date and time.Schedule Action field
The following actions appear in Similar field's Comments and Schedule Actions
panes:
Note
DescriptionAction
Power Off the VM.Power Off
Places the VM in a suspended state.Suspend
Shuts down the Guest OS on the VM.Shutdown Guest
Moves the VM to standby state.Standby
Performs a hard reset of the VM.Reset
Performs a soft reboot of the VM.Reboot
Step 3 Click Proceed.
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Cisco Virtual Application Cloud Segmentation (VACS) Services User guide

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Brand
Cisco
Model
Virtual Application Cloud Segmentation (VACS) Services
Type
User guide
This manual is also suitable for

Cisco Virtual Application Cloud Segmentation (VACS) Services offers a wide range of capabilities to help you deploy and manage virtualized applications efficiently. With VACS, you can:

  • Automate the deployment of complex virtual applications with pre-defined templates and policies.
  • Simplify the management of virtualized networks and security services through a centralized console.
  • Improve the security of your virtualized environment with built-in firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities.
  • Reduce the cost of deploying and managing virtualized applications by eliminating the need for manual configuration and troubleshooting.
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