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Automating the Cisco UCS build using Cisco PowerTool
After installing Cisco UCS and performing the initial setup of the UCS Fabric Interconnects; there is a lot of work that needs to be completed prior to configuring the blade Service Profiles.
This can be done a multitude of ways, manually through UCSM, scripted through SSH or now through PowerShell using Cisco PowerTool.… Read the rest
Tags: additional user, cisco, Cisco UCS, cloud, initial setup, multitude, PowerCLI, PowerShell, powertool, variables
Posted in Cisco, Cisco UCS, Cloud, Powershell, PowerTool, Virtualization | 2 Comments »
Configure Syslog on ESXi using PowerShell and PowerCLI
Using powershell, I was able to configure all the hosts in my vCenter instance
First, I needed to configure the syslog host
get-vmhost| Set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -NameValue @{'Config.HostAgent.log.level'='info';'Vpx.Vpxa.config.log.level'='info';'Syslog.global.logHost'='udp://IPADDDR:514'}
I then needed to open the appropriate firewall ports for the traffic to get through
get-vmhost| Get-VMHostFirewallException |?{$_.Name -eq 'syslog'} | Set-VMHostFirewallException -Enabled:$true
On the C220 M3′s, we had to re-create vSwitch0 due to it using the legacy incorrect MAC (from the step above).… Read the rest
Tags: esxi, PowerCLI, PowerShell, vmware
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Update the DNS Suffix on your cluster of ESX hosts using PowerCLI
Using PowerCLI, you can quickly update the DNS Suffix on the hosts in your cluster using this short one-liner.
get-cluster "LabManager" | get-vmhost | get-vmhostnetwork | set-vmhostnetwork -searchdomain "one.lab.org", "two.lab.org"… Read the rest
Tags: cloud, PowerCLI, PowerShell, vmware
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List the vMotion IP Address and Subnet mask for each vSphere ESX host using PowerCLI
I ran into a couple misconfigurations, so I wrote a quick online to audit all of my host configurations without having to use the dreaded host profiles
get-vmhost | % {(get-view $_.id).config.vmotion.ipconfig} | select ipaddress, subnetmask… Read the rest
Tags: PowerCLI, PowerShell, vmware
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