Keep on dreaming…

I have a dream…. Which manager wasn’t dreaming about your IT sitting on a beach and the Data center would be completed automated without any human errors ? I believe this is the future. But aren’t we saying this for about 25 years right now. Each year, month, week, day there are innovations that makes our … Read more

Syncing UCS Director

UCS Director It’s an automation tool. Not only for Cisco UCS servers, but also for networking, hypervisors and storage. Today I wanted to automate our FlashStack which contains storage of PureStorage with the UCS Director. When configuring UCS Director, I noticed I had to create a WWNN pool at the UCS Manager. After configuring, the UCS … Read more

Cisco UCS Director 6.0 with Hyperflex integration (Video)

Automate Hyperflex with UCS Director 6.0 ! The software is available on the Cisco web site : www.cisco.com/go/software In a short video I will show you a working setup with a HX Cluster and UCS Director 6.0. Not only can you monitor the Hyperflex Cluster, but also configure and automate it with workflows.   Cisco … Read more

UCS Director : IP are reserved although not used by system (Solution)

Right now I am testing an UCS Director system with some workflows and some nice API’s. Ofcourse not everything is going smooth. And right now I hit the problem that I don’t have any free IP addresses in a pool. Everything got the state “Reserved“, although the system are not using them. Here is the … Read more