Tag Archives: Cloud
The Curious Case of the Newly Defaulted Firmware Version (EFI Edition)
Let’s set the stage. It’s a few days before VMworld 2018 (US Version). I’m frantically trying to get a demo to work for a vBrownBag session I’m giving in a couple of days. I decided to make a last-ditch effort to … Continue reading
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Tagged Architect, Automation, Cloud, Microsoft, PowerCLI, Powershell, vExpert, VMware
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Head in the Clouds: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Before I begin, I will state that I had a very hard time writing this blog post. It wasn’t that the presentation and associated information provided were that tough to disseminate through, it’s just that I felt, for a long … Continue reading
Different Strokes For Different Folks: Hybrid Cloud Edition
No doubt you’ve heard plenty about the concept of hybrid cloud (or even hybrid IT) recently. Personally, my Twitter timeline has been rampant with opinion pieces (some good, some bad) and your usually array of bickering between the various factions … Continue reading
Old Dogs Learning New Tricks
Old Dogs The saying goes “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. Certainly, all of us have found examples of this to be true. Otherwise this statement would not still be in use to this day. However, what if … Continue reading
Cisco UCS Director and the PowerShell Agent – Part 5
In this blog post, we will finally work our way up to what I’ve tried to accomplish with a combination of PowerShell, Cisco UCS Director’s northbound APIs, and the concept of parallel processing with workflows in UCS Director. The Assumptions … Continue reading
Cisco UCS Director and the PowerShell Agent – Part 4
In this blog post, we will be going over some advanced use cases of PowerShell with Cisco UCS Director and the PowerShell Agent. We will go over a scenario in which we need multiple bits of data returned from a … Continue reading
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Tagged Automation, Cisco Champion, Cloud, Community, Powershell, UCS Central, UCS Director
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Cisco UCS Director and the PowerShell Agent – Part 2
In this blog post, we will be discussing how to utilize the Cisco PowerShell Agent and the provide Cisco UCS Director task, Execute PowerShell Command. We will also go over what it’s going to take to parse the response of … Continue reading
Cisco UCS Director and the PowerShell Agent – Part 1
If you’ve installed Cisco UCS Director before, you know that there exists a small component that can be installed onto a Windows device that allows for remote execution of PowerShell scripts. These scripts can be harnessed and used in ways … Continue reading
Docker? On Windows? Yep!
There’s starting to become a major timeline distinction between those of us in the IT industry. There are those of us who grew up in the industry with Microsoft being the evil empire and those that are coming into IT … Continue reading
Ready…or not.
I’m going to preface this blog post with the fact that I’ve only completed the 1st day of the Microsoft Ignite conference (2016 edition), so there might actually be more substance to some of the things that I was made … Continue reading
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