A small introduction I’m visiting VMworld for quite some years now, and every year there is a fully booked session about “Deploying NSX Datacenter on a Cisco Infrastructure” (in...
Cisco UCS Director – NetApp SolidFire Integration
I’ve created some Cisco UCS Director – Custom Workflow Task to enable NetApp SolidFire integration. This tasks are available on : https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-77021...
Automating Cisco ACI with PowerCLI (Part II)
In part I of the blog I’ve outlined the basic principles of how to connect PowerCli to an Cisco ACI environment, In this blog I will describe how to...
Automating Cisco ACI with PowerCLI (part I)
This blog describes a way how to leverage PowerClI (from VMware) to automate tasks within Cisco ACI, the SDN solution from Cisco. PowerCLI is based on Windows PowerShell. The...
Redfish API support on CIMC 3.0+
There are a lot of remote server management solutions out there (CIMC, DRAC, BMC, ILO). All solutions have there own set of API’s and functions. In a world where...
Greenfield implementation issues with Cisco UCS Central
When using multiple Cisco UCS Management domains, the usage of Cisco UCS Central is recommended for centralized management. With greenfield implementations this could be a daunting task, because Cisco...
VMware is deprecating 3th party vSwitches!
Last weekend VMware announced it will remove the API’s for 3th party vSwitches (like Cisco Nexus 1000v and Cisco Application Virtual Switch) with vSphere 6.5 update 2! There were...
Cisco UCS – BIOS policy recommendations
Workload type Windows Server 2012 (or higher) VMware host (VSI) VMware host (db-cluster) VDI Basic settings Reboot on BIOS Settings change Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Serial port A Disabled...
Cisco UCS – BIOS settings – part 3
Processor – basic options Execute Disabled Bit: This option will prevent malicious code from bufferflow attacks by classifying memory areas were code can be executed. Depending on the support...
Cisco UCS – BIOS settings – part 2
Basic options Reboot on BIOS Settings change: Always set on Enable, the maintenance policy will be in control of the needed reboot instead of the admin. Serial port A: Always...