Tag Archives: Powershell
Learning to Code
When I was in high school, I absolutely loved getting ahold of the computer systems (in my case specifically, the Apple II gs) and spending a lot of time doing programming tasks in Apple BASIC. I once wrote a program … Continue reading
Nesting Microsoft Azure Stack POC on ESXi
Recently, Microsoft announced a public proof of concept of their latest cloud software. The intention of this software is to attempt to provide a hybrid cloud platform with the look and feel and their public cloud, Azure. Now, the technical … Continue reading
Tales of a GitHub newbie…
Well, I finally did it. I finally started playing with GitHub. I’ve threatened to do so in the past, but I figure this is going to be one of the better ways to share code than just expecting anyone to … Continue reading
Resolving UCS Director’s Issues with Associating UCS Central Global Service Profiles to UCS C-Series
Forgive the long winded title, but I really struggled on how to put all of that information up there. First and foremost, let’s describe the program I ran into while trying to associate a Global Service Profile (I’ll refer to … Continue reading
The continued adventures of UCS Central in UCS Director!
It’s now been roughly 15 months since I first started working with Cisco UCS Director. While I love what the product brings to the table, there are times where it just frustrates me like no end. My current point in … Continue reading
Microsoft KB2992611 and the Cisco PSA
Ran into a pretty big issue with my lab UCS Director environment and my ability to perform PowerShell requests through the Cisco PowerShell Agent. I started to get messages in the PSA logs related to SSPI failed with inner exception … Continue reading
Cisco PowerShell Agent Service and VMware VUM PowerCLI
Whew. That was a long winded title. Those who use the PowerShell Agent Service with UCS Director should be aware that in most cases, you just send a few things for that service to run PowerShell related commands through it. … Continue reading
Fool’s Gold and the Execute PowerShell Command task
Over the last week, I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how to exactly approach the usage of this task in UCS Director. On the one hand, it works rather well. On the other hand, … Continue reading
UCS Central PowerShell integration with UCS Director
With the most recent update to the UCS Central PowerTool, I decided to start working some Powershell scripts into UCS Director (using the Execute PowerShell Command task). The built-in tasks for UCS Central seem to be lacking for the overall workflow … Continue reading
New UCS Central PowerTool version release!
FINALLY! Cisco released an update to the UCS Central PowerTool that fixes my issue I was having running a cmdlet to set the organization permission onto a common VLAN created in UCS Central. Happy to report that this new version … Continue reading
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