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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. This allows […]
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Assigning VSAN’s to Cisco UCS VSAN Uplinks using Cisco PowerTool
When building out your UCS deployment, you create a series of Fibre Channel (FC) uplinks. Then you have to go back and add those FC uplinks to the VSAN’s that you created. This can be tedious if you have a lot of FC uplinks as you would need to modify each one. With Cisco’s Powertool, […]
Tags: cisco, Cisco UCS, cloud, deployment, help files, linux, PowerShell, powertool
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Creating UCS QOS Policies using Cisco PowerTool
Creating QOS policies within UCS Manager can be somewhat cumbersome. In UCS Manager, on the Lan tab; you would right-click UCS policies and click create… one by one you would go through this process to define you UCS policies, if you have a lot of policies or a lot of UCS builds to do this […]
Tags: cisco, Cisco PowerTool, Cisco UCS, gold, platinum, PowerShell, powertool, qos policies, UCS, UCS Manager
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Using Cisco UCS PowerTool to gather Model, Serial Number, Chassis and Blade Location
I’m finishing up a UCS deployment for a customer, one of the things I needed to gather was the Serial Number, Model, Chassis Number and Blade Location. Since I’ve been playing with Cisco’s PowerShell component called PowerTool; I figured I would use it. Here is the one-liner that I came up with: get-ucsblade | select […]
Tags: chassis, cisco, Cisco UCS, deployment, Get-UcsBlade, model 2c, PowerShell, powertool, serial number, UCS Blades
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