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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 […]
Tags: additional user, cisco, Cisco UCS, cloud, initial setup, multitude, PowerCLI, PowerShell, powertool, variables
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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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Success! First ever Columbus vBeers event a hit!
With the Central Ohio VMware Users Group (COVMUG) moving to quarterly meetings, Scott and I decided to start a Columbus area vBeers gathering. March 19th, the first ever Columbus vBeers was held at the Olentangy River Road Rooster’s location. What initially appeared to be a slow start quickly ended up being a great, well attended […]
Tags: appetizers, attendance, business folks, cold beer, hyatt regency columbus, local education, olentangy river road, quarterly meetings, sponsor event, users group
Posted in Cloud, vBeers, Virtualization | 1 Comment »
After Updating the IBM PureFlex CMM Firmware, Compute Nodes Show VPD Unavailable
After Updating the IBM PureFlex CMM Firmware, my compute nodes showed up yellow on the chassis layout screen: Various errors were logged in the CMM event viewer and within the FSM: Flex System Manager (FSM) event log: Node nodexx device Addin cards[05] VPD is not valid.Node nodexx device Storage back plane[01] VPD is not available. […]
Tags: blade, cards, chassis, chassis components, firmware update, PureFlex, step 1, step 3, storage
Posted in Cloud, IBM, PureFlex, PureSystems, Virtualization | 1 Comment »